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red berries. While R. or P. levis has stem 

 terete, leaves not repand marginate of red, and 

 flowers redish also with obovate sepals. 



751. PLUMBAGO FLORIDANA Raf. (Collins 

 herb) stem slender virgate angular, smooth, 

 leaves minute ovate acute, spike slender base 

 squamose denudate, flowers terminal few,bracts 

 ovate reflexed, calix with stipitate glands. 

 This G. was not known to be N. American, the 

 specimen of Collins was collected by Ware in 

 East Elorida, it is pedal, with small leaves and 

 flowers less than one inch long. 



752. MELOTHKIA NIGRA Raf. 1820, An. nat. 

 112. M. pendula E. and most of our Authors, 

 stem, filiform angular trailing, leaves roughish 

 subreniform Slobed remotely denticulate, petiols 

 filiform elongate, flowers polygamous and mo- 

 noical, peduncles uniflore, in the m'ale multifl. 

 berries globular smooth, pisiform black, From 

 Carolina to Kentucky, trailing 3 to 10 feet, 

 leaves and flowers small, these yellow. It has 

 several var. see my Monographs ; but all are 

 distinct from the M. pendula of Antilles, Lin- 

 neus said that sp. grew from Canada to Jama- 

 ica, but I never found it in the Northern States, 

 others have and ascribe to it a red berry, is it 

 another sp. or the next ? In this the berries are 

 shining black scarcely larger than a pea. 



753. MELOTHRIA RE-PANDA Raf. Stem sul- 

 cate twining, leaves thick roughish cordate 5an- 

 gular subtrilobe, repand sinuate, teeth obtuse 

 mucronate, peduncles uniflore, berries oblong 

 oliveform smooth. This is most likely the sp. 

 of Linneus and many botanists, although L. as- 

 cribes an oliveform tuberculate berry to his, 

 petiols shorter than leaves and peduncles, I can- 

 not say if the berries are black or red, my spe- 



