90 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



16. K. CONGLOMERATES, Murray. Mostly clustered, 

 slender stemmed, glabrous; leaves not over 5x10 cm., 

 ovate or mostly oblong, frequently somewhat fiddle shaped, 

 obtuse; flowering branches slender, at length elongated; 

 not zigzag, ascending, bearing a broadly lanceolate leaf at 

 nearly every node; whorls dense, very remote except at 

 ends of branches ; pedicels rather slender, about as long as 

 the fruit, tumidly jointed near the base; valves 1.5x2.5 

 mm., nearly oblong, obtuse ; callosities mostly 3, round to 

 ovoid, very prominent, smooth except for the sides 

 below, where they pass into the larger veins, half as long 

 and nearly as wide as the valves; achene 1.5x2 mm. 

 Prod. Fl. Goetting. (1770), 52; Meisner, DC. Prod. xiv. 

 49. A European plant introduced sparingly along the 

 Atlantic Coast, and abundantly in California. Specimens 

 examined from Virginia ( Curtiss, 1872 ; Dep. Agr., 1878), 

 South Carolina (Ravenel}, and various parts of California 

 (Palmer, 1875; Rothrock, 1875, 64; Parry and Lemmon 

 1876, 372; Greene, 1876, 970; Hooker and Gray, 1877 ; 

 Nevin, 1878; James, 1879; Vasey, 1880, 546; Mrs. 

 Brandegee, 1891 ; Blankinship, 1891), and ballast at New 

 York (Brown, 1879, 12). Plate 28. 



K. SANGUINEUS, L. Habit and general appearance of the 

 last, but the slender flowering branches leafless, and one 

 only of the valves with a large round callosity ; veins of 

 leaves, etc., typically very red. Sp. i. (1753), 334; 

 Meisner, DC. Prod. 49. An occasional waif in the 

 Atlantic region, seen by me only from ballast at Philadel- 

 phia (Martindale, 1880). A form destitute of the red 

 veining (var. viridis, Smith) from Tuscaloosa, Ala. 

 (Smith, 1876), and on ballast near Phildelphia (Martin- 

 dale, 1878), and at N. Y. City (Brown, 1879, 15). 



This species was described by Linnaeus as from " Vir- 

 ginia," but there is little doubt that it is a native of Europe. 

 What has frequently passed for it in this country is the 

 red-veined variety of R. obtusifolius, which is readily 



