18 NEW SYLVA 



Smooth erect, leaves sessile obovate or round- 

 ed, glaucous cartilaginous retuse, floral connate 

 cycloidal ; flowers in whorls of 4 peduncles op- 

 posite biflore, berries oblong black on the 

 lime rocks of Kentucky and Illinois, rare, seen 

 only in. 3 localities, one at a Cave on the Elk- 

 horn creek, 3 or 4 feet high, branches of a pale 

 color. It blossoms in April, so early that I al- 

 ways missed to see the full bloom : near to C. 

 flacum but different. 



517. L. ELLIPTICA Raf. Autikon. Climbing 

 smooth, leaves all connate elliptic obtuse glau- 

 cous beneath subundulate not reticulate, floral 

 connate in a single ellipse ; flowers subjessile 

 small purple, base gibbose in the Apalachian 

 Mts. of Virginia and Carolina, seen alive in 

 gardens There are two varieties, 1 Macro- 

 phyla with long leaves 6 inches by 3, the sec- 

 ond Minor small leaves 2 inches by one. Does 

 the doubtful undescribed C. rubrum of fl. 

 Louis. 248 belong here ? 



518. L. OVATA Raf. Autikon. Climbing 

 smooth, leaves all sessile ovate acute ; flowers 

 in axillary pedicelate corymbs, corols incarnate 

 tube slender on the same Mts. Apalaches rare, 

 only met once, leaves small, flowers middle 

 size. 



219. L. RETICULATA Raf. Autikon. Erect 

 smooth, branches angular, leaves all connate 

 cycloidal neither acute nor retuse, beneath 

 white and reticulate ; flowers axillary and ter- 

 minal berries red shady hills of Ohio and Mts. 

 Wasioto of East Kentucky, very small shrub 

 only 2 or 3 feet high, leaves ample, the lower 

 nearly elliptical, flowers not seen, near C. gra- 

 > but branches and leaves different. 



520. L. ERIENSIS Raf. Autikon. Erect, 



