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OLDENLANDIA, Plum. 



O. patens. Radical leaves acute ; flowers erect in the bud, seldom (if 

 ever) dimorphous ; calyx-lobes acute ; corolla 3" broad, deep blue, its tube 

 three times as long as the calyx; otherwise like 0. ccerulea, Gray. (Hous- 

 tonia, Ell.) Roadsides, &c., Florida to South Carolina. 



CATESB.S3A, L. 



Calyx 4-toothed or 4-parted Corolla funnel-shaped, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, 

 inserted on the base of the corolla. Stigma 2-lobed. Berry 2-celled, many 

 seeded, the placentae at the top of the partition. Seeds flat, imbricated. 

 Spiny shrubs, with small thick opposite leaves, and axillary whitish flowers. 



C. parviflora, Swartz. Glabrous ; leaves oval or obovate, mostly shorter 

 than the spines, the margins revolute ; flowers sessile ; corolla small (4" long), 

 the tube 4-angled ; berry globose. Bahia Honda, South Florida (Curtiss). 

 Shrub 4 -8 high. 



ORDER VALERIANACE^E. 

 FEDIA, Mcench. 



F. olitoria, Vahl. Flowers pale blue ; fruit compressed, oblique, with a 

 corky mass at the back of the fertile cell, the empty cells large and some- 

 times confluent ; stem and leaves as in F. radiata. New Orleans. Intro- 

 duced. 



F. patellaria, Sulliv. Flowers white ; fruit circular, notched at both 

 ends, the empty cells concave, broader than the fertile one, and forming a 

 wing around it. Nashville (Dr. Gattinger). 



ORDER COMPOSITE. 



VERNONIA, Schreb. 



V. angustifolia, var. pumila, Chapm. Low (G'-l^), smoothish ; 

 leaves short; heads 3-7, loosely corymbose ; involucre smooth ; pappus yel- 

 lowish ; achenium smooth. Wet pine woods, South Florida. November. 



ELEPHANTOPUS, L. 



E. nudatus, Gray ? Sparsely hirsute, and dotted with minute resinous 

 atoms ; stem (6'- 18' high) with 3 or 4 short obovate leaves at the base, and 

 a smaller one below the branches of the cyme ; floral leaves broad-ovate, 

 barely acute, rather shorter than the heads ; scales of the involucre smooth, 

 cuspidate ; scales of the pappus abruptly dilated at the base. Damp ground 

 near the coast, Florida. 



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