1886.] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 109 
24. H. anagalloides Cuam. & gt gt Often ee 
dense mats: stems an inch to a foot long: leaves oblong 
broadly ovate, very obtuse, 5 to "Tometyen at base, 2 to 6 fit 
long, almost as broad: flowers 3 or 4 lines in diameter, in few- 
flowered naked or leafy cymes: sepals foliaceous, unequal, lance- 
olate to broadly ovate, longer than the ovate capsules : stamens 
15 to 20.—Linneea, iii. 127; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 167 and 674. 
? H. mutilum Watson, King’s Report, v. 4 
n wet ground from Southern California to Mata ti pene Mon- 
tana ( Watson), and British Columbia. Also in adjacent Mexi 
Possibly this is but a form of H. Japonicum Thunb. 
25. H. mutilum L. Like the last, but more erect and dif- 
fusely branching, a half to a foot (or even two feet) high: leaves 
narrowly oblong to somew ies ovate, half to an inch long, 2 to 4 
lines wide, 5-nerved at base: fowens in very loose leafy cymes: 
sepals linear to lanceolate, ot shorter than the aie oenbeye: : 
stamens 6 to 12 —Spec. 787; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i 
H. LE ety Walter, Fl. Car. 190; Chois. in DC. Prodr. i. 550; Hook. 
Fl, a -Am 
open Willd. a lii. ag ‘pea Olas 
i stellarioides HBK. N 
Low grounds, from Clin é Fiat and Texas. Also in adjacent 
Mexico. 
Quite variable in size, and in some forms closely resembling the last spe- 
“s 
** Almost simple, with strict stems cil branches: flowers in naked cymes: 
sepals linear to linear- lanceolate, acumina 
26. H. gymnanthum Enceitm. & Gray. A foot to three 
feet high: leaves cordate-ovate, clasping, ane quite distant half 
inch or more long, 5 to 7-nerved and 3 to 5 lines wide 
tapering to an gnnte or obtuse apex: lowers: in strict aoa few- 
flowered elongated cymes: sepals a line or two long, about as 
eee as the ovate-eonic capsule: stamens 10 to 12. =—P]; Lindh. 
4; Walp. Ann. ii. 188. 
HZ. mutilum var. gymnanthum Gray, Manual, 86. 
Delaware, Pennsylvania and fone to Louisiana and Tex 
The strict habit and naked cymes resemble the lewigs species. In the 
Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Ceacllochaf for Feb. 1885, R. v. Uechtritz and 
P. Ascherson refer this species to H. Japonicum Thunb. They well establish it 
8 a species distinct from H. mutilum, but an examination of many specimens 
fH. Japonicum shows it to be very distinct from that species also. If H. 
