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red berries. — While R. or P. lems has stem 

 terete, leaves not repand marginate of red, and 

 flowers redish also with obovate sepals. 



751. Pj.umbago 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 Avith stipitate glands. — 

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

 specimen of Colhns w^as collected by Ware in 

 East Elorida, it is pedal, with small leaves and 

 flowers less than one inch long. 



752. Melothria nigra Raf, 1820, An, nat. 

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

 stem, fib form angular traihng, leaves roughish 

 subreniform 5lobed remotely denticulate, petiols 

 filiform elongate, flowers polygamous and mo- 

 noical, peduncles uniflore, in the male 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. pendnla 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 herry, is it 

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

 shining black scarcely larger than a pea. 



753. Mfxotiiria rfpanda 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- 



