86 HOTANtCAL fJAZETTE. [April, 



always tapering and siibpotiolato at base, not so revoluto, half to 

 three inclies long, as many lines wide: sepals linear-lanecoiate, 

 acute, tapering at base, shorter or longer than the petals. — Diet. 

 iv. IGl ; Chois. 1. c. 550; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 159. 



II. uxillare Lam. 1. c. 160, not Miclix. 



Il.fasciculaium Michx. Wilkl. Spec. iii. 1452, not Lam. 

 ? J/, ambiguum Elliott, ii. 30 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 102 and 073. 



H. galioidef; var. ambujuum Chapm. Fl. 40. 



Myriandra ^fi^■hau.rn Spach. 



Wet ground, from Delaware to Georgia, E. Tennessee, and Louisiana. 



These two species are inextricably connected by intermediate forms, and 

 it is a question whether H. galwidcs, should lie considered more than a variety 

 of H. fasciculatum. But the extreme forms are so remarkably difT'erent in ap- 

 pearance that for the present, at least, they are kept separate. 



= =r = Sepals small : flowers small, in naked cymes : leaves rather broad, 

 thin and veiny: somewhat shi-ubby at base, a foot or two high, simple or 

 branching. 



11. H. adpressuni Bartox. Leaves linear-lanceolate to nar- 

 rowly oblong, mostly acute, ascending, al)out two inciies long, 8 to 

 4 lines wide, revolute, pellucid-punctate without black dots, trans- 

 lucently veiny : cymes leafy only at base, dichotomal flowers very 

 short pedicclled: sepals linear to lanceolate, acute, half to two- 

 tiiirds as long as the petals, often reflcxed : capsule ovate to ob- 

 long, about 2 lines long; seeds oblong. — Fl. Philad. ii. 15; Torr. 

 & Gray, Fl. i. 159. 



H. Bonapart&v, Barton, Fl. N. Am. iii. 95, t. 100. 

 H. fadUjiatum Elliott, ii. 31 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 166. 

 H. adprexfium Vdr.fcuitUjialnm, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 673. 



Moist ground, Nantu(!ket to Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and 

 Georgia. 



12. H. cistifoliuin Lam. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or oblong, 

 obtuse, 2 or 3 inches long, half an inch wide, })ellucid-])unctate with 

 very small crowded dots: cymes pedunculate, loosely-flowered, 

 dichotomal flowers pedicelled : sepals variable, linear to oblong, 

 about half as long as the petals: capsule ovate-conical, about -3 

 lines long; seeds cylindrical, with ])rominent rhaphe. — Diet, i v. 

 158, not of Torr. cS^. CJray, Fl. i. G74, Chapm. Fl. 41, etc. 



//. nudijionnn Michx. Willd. Spec. iii. 1456; Torr. <t Gray, 1. c. 102; 

 Chapm. 1. c. ; Ciray, Manual, 84. 



From North ("arolina through Georgia and Alaltaina to Texas. 



As our //. niidijloniiii has proved to be Lamarck's //. ri-'llfoliinii, (lie latter 

 name as applicil in Watsdu's IJibiiographical Index, p. 125, must disappear. 



