1895.] North American Amaranthacee. 339 
sion is reached. A specimen in the Gray herbarium, culti- 
vated in 1848 from Texas seed, is peculiar in its glabrate habit, 
with very long narrow leaves, some of which are over 17™ 
long. It has not the appearance of F. Floridana, but its crest 
characters show very close affinities for this species, in view of 
which we have tentatively classified it here. 
Type in Nat. herb. (?). The uncertainty here lies in the 
fact that the label on this specimen is not identical with Nut- 
tall’s familiar little square labels, and the words ‘‘garden spec- 
imen” are added, though ‘‘Banks of the Altamaha, WVu¢zal/,” 
would indicate that the specimen is of no slight importance. 
YF, FLORIDANA DRUMMONDII (Moq.). 
f. Drummondii Mog. |. c. 421. 
Plant taller and stouter, tawny-sericeous, with larger oblong- 
elliptical leaves: teeth of the sepal crests unequally united, in 
this regard passing into the next species. —Southwestern 
Texas and northern Mexico. Typesin herb. Gray (Berlandier, 
2001) and herb. Columbia College (Drummond, 326 ?). The 
latter was published in Torr. & Gray’s Fl. N. Am. as Oplo- 
theca Floridana. It is probable that it is one of Drummond's 
ape though Moquin makes no mention of the collection 
umber. 
2. F. INTERRUPTA (L.) Mog. |. c. 421. 
Gomphrena interrupta L. Sp. Pl. 2: 224. 1753- 
sk 2Ol. 
; t. Gen. Am. 1818. 
inanga interrupta Raf. Fl. Tellur. 3: 76. 1836. 
Frelichia alata Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 437. 1886. 
_ Plant variable as in F. Floridana and not essentially dis- 
tinct in habit from it: fruiting calyx ovate; teeth of the crest 
coalescent into a thin continuous broad wing which is usually 
erose-denticulate.—Arizona, Chihuahua, Sonora and Lower 
California, rare. Palmer and Pringle specimens in herbaria 
labelled F. interrupta prove to be F. Floridana. Type un- 
n. 
If the absence of secondary crests which are invariably seen 
to appear on the mature fruiting calyx in the form of horny 
tubercles or nascent wings were to be accounted for on any 
grounds other than immaturity, it would be possible to recog- 
