40 KEOBOT. 



culiar, and tho name is derived from the unci- 

 nate teeth of leaves. 



829. Odacmis fascicularis R. smooth, stem 

 creeping angular, leaves petiolate fasciculate, 

 subreniform with large hooked teeth, base sub- 

 truncate without teeth, peduncles of flowers 

 longer than petiols. — From Florida, collected 

 by Kin or Ware, anonymous in Coll. herb, 

 small plant prostrate, fascicles of leaves remote 

 alternate, leaves with many nerves and only 

 half inch wide. Flowers greenish, sepals 4 

 ovate acute, petals 4 elliptic obtuse yellowish 

 not longer than calix. 



830. BUINALIS Raf. dioical. Calix deeply 

 5fid persistent, base turbinate with 5 tubercles 

 at the clefts, segments flat edged and crowned 

 by a thick colored membrane. Corolla none, 

 male fl. with 5 stamens perigynous inserted on 

 the calix short filiform fertile, and 5 alternate 

 sterile without anthers, sometimes lacking. In 

 female fl. ovary ovate, style filiform elongate, 

 stigma simple. Fruit Akena ovate smooth mo- 

 nosperm. Stem articulate^ leaves opposite 

 sessile entire stipulate^ flowers fascicled — a 

 new G. of family Aciiykanthides differing from 

 Amaranthides by a single style and stigma. 

 It differs from my G. Steiremis in fl. tellur. by 

 dioical single calix, free stamens, 4^'c. It has 

 the habit of Herniaria and Anychia to which it 

 is also related but differs by dioical flowers and 

 single style, besides the calix not angular nor 

 acute &.C. The name was an old latin one of 

 Ilerniafia. 



831. BuiNALis floridana Raf Herniaria 

 Americana Coll.herb. Anychia floridana Baldw. 

 do — prostrate diffuse subdichotome fu&^cate, 

 leaves sessile cuneale or obovate, obtuse or sub- 



