84 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [April], 
lines long: seeds striate, with prominent rhaphe.— Am. Jour. 
Sci. 1. xliv. 80; Chapm. F). 39. 
Cliffs, mountains of North Carolina and Georgia. 
5. H. prolifieam L. Leaves 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, mucronate, 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. & 
ray, Fl. i. 159, exel. var. 7. 
H. rosmarinifolium Lam. Dict. iv. 159; Torr. & Gray, l. c. 
Myriandra ledifolia Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. 2. v. 365. 
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 distinguished by 
the much larger and fewer capsules and flowers. 
6. H. densiflorum Pursu. More shrubby and taller, some- 
times 5 or 6 feet high, much more branching: 
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. galicides Pursh, 376, not Lam. 
HT. prolificum var.(?)y Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 
H. prolifieum var. densiflorum Gray, Manual, 84. 
Myriandra spathulata Spach, 1. e. 
Pine barrens of New Jersey, to Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas. 
Large leaved forms from New Jersey (Canby) 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 
forms will occur. 
Tf TStyles 3: capsule 1-celled, or almost 3-celled by the projecting pla- 
cente : shrubby at least at base. 
{ Placente projecting nearly to the center of the ovary. 
= Sepals broad, ovate, foliaceous: flowers large and showy, solitary or in 
leafy cymes: leaves rather broad and somewhat coriaceous: shrubby. 
H. aureum Barrram. Widely branched above, 2 to 4 
ie . 
feet high: leaves oblong, more or less attenuate at base, obtuse or 
acute, 1 to 3 inches long, 3 to 9 lines wide: flowers often solitary, 
