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with habit of Ericas and Empetrum, flowers 

 capitate without involucre, but many ciliate 

 ^jnbricate bracts, calix large membranaceous 

 5hd subequal campanulate, corolla nearly as in 

 Satureia, 4 filaments and anthers, seeds 1 or 2 

 at the bottom of the large calix— this will pro- 

 bably be like Pycnanthes an American Genus 

 of many sp. but now I know of only one type. 

 All the Satureias are foreign to America. 



605. PiLOBLEPHis RiGiDA (or cricoides) Raf 

 Satureia rigida Bartr. 1775, Bentham. Anon- 

 ymos N. G, Baldwin in Collins herb. Shrubby 

 decurnbent, branches terete rigid leaves imbri- 

 cate linear obtuse smooth margin revolute, flow- 

 ers in terminal globular heads, bracts linear 

 lanceol. obt. hairy ciliate as long as flowers- 

 Shores of Florida, in sands, small procumbent 

 Shrub quite evergreen, flowers incarnate con- 

 cealed among the bracts. If this shrub has 

 been unnoticed for 60 years (after Bartr am) in 

 our book*, I may hope that in 60 years hence 

 my new plants will also be properly noticed 

 again ! . . . , Bartram did not describe it, I de- 

 scribe my new plants ! Baldwin found it again 

 in 1816 and deemed it a new genus as I do 

 altho' he neglected naming it like so many other 

 rare plants of his. 



606. AuDiBERTiA iNCANA Bcnth. Lindl. b. 

 reg. 1469. Suflruticose glaucous, leaves cune- 

 ate and obovate, flowers verticillate, bracts or- 

 bicular ciliate — Origon, a N. G. of Bentham 

 with habit of Origanum, but very distinct by 2 

 stamens like Cunila, flowers blue, calix ovate 

 bilabiate, upper lip entire, lower bifid, corolla 

 tubular, subbilab. upper lip bifid, lower trifid, 

 medial lobe notched, anthers dimidiate. Not 



