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base, as long as the fertile ones. (Achyranthes repens, Ell.) Along roads and 

 places much trodden, Florida to South Carolina. June- Oct. ]]. Stems 6'- 

 12' long. Leaves 1' long. 



9. TELANTHERA, B. Brown. 



Flowers perfect, 3-bracted. Sepals 5, erect. Stamens 5, united into a tube 

 below the middle. Sterile filaments elongated, flattened, fimbriate at the apex : 

 anthers 1 -celled, oblong. Style short: stigma capitate. Utricle indehiscent, 

 1 -seeded, included in the calyx. Seed vertical. Radicle ascending. Herbs or 

 shrubs, with opposite leaves. Flowers capitate. 



* Calyx sessile, the 3 exterior sepals longer : heads sessile or nearly so. 



1. T. polygonoides, Moquin. Stem erect or prostrate, pubescent ; leaves 

 oblong-obovate, hairy ; heads sessile, roundish, single or 2 - 3 together, axillary 

 and terminal ; sepals thin, ovate-lanceolate, twice as long as the bracts, the outer 

 ones 3-nerved, woolly at the base ; sterile filaments as long as the fertile ones, 

 3 - 4-cleft at the apex. On the coast of South Carolina, Moquin. 



2. T. inaritima, Moquin. Smooth and fleshy ; stem prostrate, branching, 

 angled ; leaves wedge-obovate, very obtuse, mucronate ; heads roundish or ob- 

 long, axillary and terminal, dull straw-color, rigid ; flowers crowded, 3-angled ; 

 sepals smooth, rigid, ovate, acuminate, 5-ribbed, with the margins membrana- 

 ceous, one third longer than the ovate keeled bracts ; sterile filaments longer 

 than the fertile ones, 4-6-cleft at the apex. South Florida. Leaves l'-2' 

 long. Heads 4" - 6" long. 



* * Calyx raised on a short 5-angled pedicel ; the sepals nearly equal, cylindrical, 

 hairy : heads long-peduncled. 



3. T. Floridana, n. sp. Shrubby; stem slender, elongated, forking, 

 remotely jointed ; the young branches and leaves roughened with appressed 

 scattered hairs , leaves distant, fleshy, oblong-lanceolate or obovate, acute or 

 acuminate, tapering into a short petiole ; peduncles terminal and in the forks, 

 4-6 times as long as the leaves ; heads white, ovate; sepals lanceolate-oblong, 

 acute, 3-5-nerved, hairy, 2-3 times as long as the ovate acute bracts; sterile 

 filaments longer than the fertile ones, 5-6-cleft; utricle crowned with a narrow 

 toothed margin. South Florida, along the coast. Stem 2 - 4 long Leaves 

 1' long. 



4. T. Brasiliana, Moquin. Herbaceous, rough-hairy; the young leaves 

 and branchlets hoary ; stem erect, forking ; leaves thin, ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, tapering into a short petiole, longer than the internodes, rather shorter 

 than the slender peduncles ; heads and flowers as in No. 3 ; utricle crowned 

 with a narrow entire margin. South Florida. Stem apparently tall. Leaves 

 2'- 4' long. 



10. PRCELICHIA, Mcench. 



Flowers perfect, 3-bracted. Calyx tubular, 5-cleft, indurated and spiny-crested 

 in fruit. Stamens 5, united into a long tube. Sterile filaments entire anthers 



