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CONTKIHUTIONH FROM THK NATIONAL HKKHAKIUM. 



Wet pliicos from Goorjria and Floiicla to oasioru Texas, Indian Tor 

 ritory, Missouri, and Kentucky. 



SiiicinioiK fxamined: 



Mississii'Pi: Meridian, Trnq/, June 6, 18S1, 



Ti;\Ni;.ssi;i;: ("licstcr County, liaiii, Auj,'ust, lSfl2. 



MissoiTui: Texas County, Imci/, July S, ISSii. 



Ti:\As: Hciiiiistcail, //<»// 242, June 2, 1872; TlmrowC,, in ISSO. 



AuKANSAs: Kort Sniitli, BIt/clnii), in IK");}-.")!; Little Uock, I,<llrnii<in, \n ISHI; 



sume station, Oiril/r 20, July 8, 1887. 

 Indian Tkuuitoky: ShiiuUi, Bushl9'3, September 21, ISii4. 



For discuPHion of E. arnericanum Walter and E. intci/iifnliKin Walter, sec C. & K. 

 Rev. N. Am. ITmbell. 102, and Jour. Bot. 38: 244. liiOO. 



(). Eryngium phyteumae Dclar. Eryng. 51. pi. 2\. 1S08. 

 E. discolor Watson, Proe. Am. Aead. 18: 193. ISS.'i. 



Stem erect, slender, 8 to G dm. hio'li, Itciiriiio- ti sinolo head (rarely 

 more); ba.«al letives on very lonec pc^tioles, ohlono- to ntirrowly ohlancoo- 

 late, thin, sliohtly crenate ; stem leaves few, sessile, linear-Ianeeolati!, 

 acutely or spinosely toothed; head ov!ite-ol>l<»no- (about 12 mm. lony), 

 with involucre of muuerous llnear-hinceolate spinos(>-tipped bracts 

 (white within and green without) lonocr than thc^ hcnids and entire oi' 

 sjjarino-ly spinose-toothcHl, and a conspicuous tcrmintd tuft of oxserted 

 brtu'tlets resembling the bracts; ordinary l)riictlets inirrow, with a 

 long spinose acumination; fruit with ovate abruptly cuspidate-tipped 

 calyx lot)es and long slender styles. 



Typo locality, "Nova Hispania," near Toluca, State of Mexico; col- 

 lected b}'^ Ihniiholdt (§ Bonpland. 



From the mountains of southern Arizona southward into Mexico. 



Sju'dmens examined: 



Arizona: In water, Cienega, Huachuca Mountains, Lemmon 2714, September, 



1882. 



7. Eryngium floridanum C. & R. Bot. Gaz. 13: 142. 1S88. 



Erect, 6 to 9 dm. high; basal leaves narrowly oblong (2.5 to 10 cm. 

 long), mostly entire, on long-jointed petioles (sometimes 3 dm. long); 

 upper leaves becoming sessile, elongtited-linear, usually remotely ser- 

 ridate; bracts linear-lanceolate, rigid, shari)-i)ointed, entire or spiny- 

 toothed, reflex(»d, longer than th(! subglobose heads; bractlets linear, 

 rigid, entire, tapering tc a pungent tip, nuicli longer than the flowers; 

 fruit with short ovate acute (;alyx-lobes and very long rigid styles. 



Type locality, "brackish marshes [lu'ar .lacksonvillej, Floiida;" 

 collected by Curtiss; type in U. S. Nat. Herb. 



Brackish marshes of Florida. 



Specimens examined: 



Florida: East Florida, Palmer 192, in 1874; near Jacksonville, CktHss 998*, 990; 

 same station, Cnrtiss, ia 1875; near Tampa, Uarbcr, May, 1870; near Jack- 

 sonville, Vurliss 4337, August 14, 1893. 



