84 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [April. 



lines long: seeds striate, with jirominont rhaphe. — Am. Jour. 

 Sci. 1. xliv. 80; Chapin. Fl. 80. 



Cliffs, mountains of North Carolina and Georgia. 



5. H. prolificuin L. Ix'avcs linear-lanceolate to narrowly 

 oblong, narrowed at base, mostly obtuse and mucronulate, 1 to 3 

 inches long, 3 to 9 lines wide, with smaller ones in axillary 

 fascicles : flowers numerous, half to an inch in diameter : sepals 

 unequal, foliaceous, lanceolate to ovate, raucronate, much shorter 

 than the petals: capsule lanceolate to ovate, 4 to 6 lines long; 

 seeds striate. — Mant, 106; Chois. in DC. Prodr. i. 547; Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. i. 159, excl. var. y. 



H. rosmarinifoHum Lam. Diet. iv. 159; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 



Myriandra ledifolia Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. 2. v. 36-5. 



From New Jersey and District of Columbia, to Alabama, Arkansas, Mis- 

 souri, Kentucky, Illinois, and Minnesota. 



This species varies greatly in size, and in width of leaves, the southern forms 

 often approaching the next species in appearance, but readily di-stingnished by 

 the much larger and fewer capsules and flowers. 



6. H. (lensifloruni Pursil More shrubby and taller, some- 

 times 5 or 6 feet high, much more branching: leaves more 

 crowded, narrower and shorter : flowers much more numerous 

 and smaller: sepals smaller, not foliaceous: capsule 2 to 3 lines 

 long.— Fl. 376 ; Chois. 1. c. 



H. galioides Pursh, 376, not Lam. 



H. prolificum var.(?)^ Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 



H.prolijicum var. deasiflornm Gray, Manual, 84. 



Myriandra spathulata Si)ach, 1. c. 



Pine barrens of New Jersey, to Floriila, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas. 



Large leaved forms from New .Jersey {Canhy) seem to intergrade with the 

 last species, but the characters of capsules and flowers plainly indicate H. den- 

 siflorum. Between closely related species it is to be expected that intermediate 

 form.s will occur. 



tttStyles 3: capsule 1-celled, or almost 3-celled by the projecting pla- 

 centae : shrubby at least at base. 



X Placenta; projecting nearly to the center of the ovary. 



= Sepals broad, ovate, foliaceous: Ho wers large and showy, solitary or in 

 leafy cymes: leaves rather broad and somewhat coriaceous: shrubby. 



7. H. aureniii Bartram. Widely branched above, 2 to 4 

 feet high : leaves oblong, niore or less attenuate at base, obtuse or 

 acute, 1 to 3 inches long, 3 to 9 lines wide: flowers often solitary, 



