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4. E. Mettaueri Wood, Cl.-IJook, 87U. Stem erect, sim- 

 ple, 4 to f) feet high, branching at top: stem leaves linear to linear- 

 I'.inceolate, entire or sparingly spinose toothed at base, the lower 

 linear (sometimes 1 to 2 feet long), on very long jointed petioles: 

 heads ovate-oblong (6 liijes long), with numerous reflexed linear- 

 lanceolate spinose-tipped and toothed bracts (whitish within and 

 greenish without) larger than the heads, and bractlets lanceolate, 

 with 3 strong and equal spiny cusps {^w-, \\\ Ji. Rave?icllii'): hmt 

 about a line long, with ovate acute cahx-teeth, and long stout 

 rigid styles, 



III marshes and wet placfs, Florida, Newport (J/c/^nu'r). Fl. Auguf-t 

 and September. 



Most of the herbarium material labeled H. Mellitufri is E. Floridarium. 

 This species is intermediate between E. Vir(iiniunnm and E. liavpvellii, 

 but stouter than either, having the bractlets of the latter and leaves of 

 intermediate character. 



5. E. Ravenelli Gray, PI. Lindh. 209. vSlender, from 1 >^ 

 to 8 feet high, branching above: leaves linear, elongated, nearly 

 terete (conduplicate), obscurely denticulate, the lower ones fro:n 

 12 to 18 inches long: heads as in the former species, with lanceo- 

 late spiny-toothed or entire reflexetl bracts as long as the head, 

 and bractlets with 8 strong and ec[ual spiny cusps: fruit with 

 short muci'onulate cahx-lobcs, and long rigiil styles. 



Wet pine barrens, South Carolina, St. John'y Parish {.liar en el); Florida, 

 Apalachieola ((7(«/>ii((M(), St. Marks' iRiKjtl), TanqyA Bay (Lrorcnwor I h). 

 Fl. September and October. 



Chapmans Florida specimens are those from which he described the 

 E. Virfiinidiuim of his Manual, of course moie or less modilied by pub- 

 lished descriptions. The narrow conduplicate nearly entire leaves, the 

 bractlets with :] strong and ci|ual spiny cusps, and the short-mucronate 

 calyx-lobes, siiould seive w(>li to (lislinguisli this species from E. Vinjiv- 

 iini II III . 



<>. E. praealtum (iray, PI. Lii.dh. '.'10. Stout, 4 l.) () feet 

 high, bianciiing al)()\e: radical IcaM's ikhidw 1\ olilong (not ui^iike 

 those of a Rumcx), with strong niidrili, often 2 feet or more long 

 including the long petioles, entire or npand; >tem-lea\ e>^ lanceo- 

 late, veiny, serrate, tapering at both ends; lloi.tl Icaxcs similar to 

 the bracts, which arc lincar-lanccohile, spjiiulose-dcntate oi' incised, 

 2 or :Mimes longer than the ovate oblong head (») lines long); 

 bractlets with ;{ spin\' cusps, ibe middle one sonu-w hat the largest: 



