Vol.. III.] 



APPENDIX. 



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[Vol. 2: p. 391.] 4a. Ilex lucida (Ait.) 

 T. & G. Shining Inkberry. 

 (Fig- 2359a.) 

 Prinos lucidus Ait. Hort. Kew, 1:478. 1789. 

 Prinos coriaceus Pursh, PI. Am. Sept. 221. 1814. 

 Ilex coriacea Chapm. PI. S. States, 270. i860. 

 Ilex lucida T. & G. ; S. Wats. Bibl. Index, 1: 159. 1 878. 



A glabrous shrub, 15 high or less. L,eaVes thick, 



evergreen, oval to obovate or oblong, acute at both 



ends, entire, or with a few small sharp teeth, 1/-;/ 



long, dark green and shining above, paler and 



dotted beneath, short-petioled, somewhat viscid 



when young; flowers clustered in the axils, or the 



staminate solitary, the cymes sessile; pedicels 



bractless, short; calyx-segments 6-9; drupe black, 



3 // -4 // in diameter; nutlets flat, smooth. 



Dismal Swamp, Virginia, to Florida and Louisiana. 

 April-May. 



[Vol. 2: p. 423.] ia. Sphaeralcea cus 

 pidata (A. Gray.) Britton. Sharp- 

 fruited Globe-Mallow. (Fig. 2431a.) 



Sida stcllata Torr. Ann. Lye. N. "V. 2: 171. 1827. 



Not Cav. 1802. 

 Sphaeralcea stellata T. & G. PI. N. A. 1: 228. 1838. 

 Spliaeralcea angustifolia var. cuspidala A. Gray, 



Proe. Am. Acad. 22: 293. 1887. 



Perennial, densely stellate-canescent ; stems 

 rather stout, simple, or somewhat branched, 

 leafy, i-4 high. Leaves lanceolate, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, or acutish, 

 firm, crenulate, the lower with petioles as long 

 as the blade, the others short-petioled, the 

 larger 2'-\' long, % / -i / wide, sometimes has- 

 tately lobed toward the base; fio-wers red, 6 // - 

 io // broad, clustered in the axils, short-pedi- 

 celled; carpels 1-3-seeded, cuspidate, the tip 

 often deciduous, wrinkled on the sides, stellate- 

 canescent, or glabrate. 

 Kansas to Texas, Colorado, Arizona and Mexico. April-Aug. 



[Vol. 2: p. 447.] 4a. Viola domestica 

 Bicknell. Yard Violet. 



(Fig. 2487a.) 



Glabrous; fleshy, acaulescent, similar to V. 

 obliqua, Rootstock short, or often elongated 

 and stout; flowering scapes usually obliquely as- 

 cending; petioles stout, 1-3 times as long as the 

 blades; blade broadly reniform, often only a 

 little cordate or contracted at the base, cucul- 

 late in unfolding, irregularly crenate-dentate 

 or crenulate nearly all arouud, mostly wrinkled 

 and wavy, often 4 / -5 / wide, somewhat decur- 

 rent on the petiole; petals dark blue, the lower n\ v 

 and lateral ones bearded; peduncles of cleistog- 

 amous flowers usually very numerous, hori- 

 zontal, mostly subterranean, very stunt, often 

 thickened toward the end, bearing pods about 

 \" long. 



Apparently always in cultivated soil, especially 

 about buildings, southern New York, New Jersey 

 and Pennsylvania. April-May. 



