1895.] North American Amaranthacee. 451 
colored on the back, scarious-margined: staminodia narrow, 
fringed at apex, equaling the filaments: mature utricle not 
seen.—State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Our plant appears in 
every way to have grown in muddy or ae places. ulti- 
vated forms from Washington and Philadelphia showing 
flower and bract characters identical with the type may have 
sprung originally from this form; but they differ strongly in 
plant habit, being glabrate, with larger and fewer leaves, and 
bearing no evidence of rooting nodes, although the lower part 
of these plants has not been seen. _If there is such an indig- 
€nous form anywhere in existence, it undoubtedly belongs 
with A. Kerberi as a variety. The species may be recognized 
at once by its bracts. 
Type (Atoyac, Vera Cruz, Kerber, May, 1883) in herb. 
J. D. Smith. Cultivdted specimens here referred to are in 
herb. Columbia College and Nat. herb. 
5. A. MARITIMA St. Hil. Voy. Brés. 2: 43. 1823. 
Lllecebrum maritimum Sprengel Syst. ye Post 4: 103. 1829. 
Telanthera maritima M .c. 364. 18 
Smooth and fleshy (black on drying): stem — angled, 
branching: leaves obovate, mucronate: flowers in small nu- 
merous axillary heads, triangular, closely sessile, leaving a 
wide depressed scar when removed: sepals rigid, indurate, 
Ovate, acute, slightly aristate, about 5-ribbed, one-third 
longer than the wide keeled bracts: staminodia slightly longer 
than the filaments.—Southern Florida, where it has come in 
from the tropics by way of the West Indies. Type unknown. 
6. A. STELLATA (Wats). 
( Lelanthera stellata Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 436. 1886. 
erbaceous, ascending, branched, clothed throughout with 
share: stellate pubescence: leaves ovate to lanceolate, acute, 
2 to 5™ long: heads sessile in the axils: flowers dorsally com- 
Pressed: sepals unequal, the outer ones 3-nerved, rigid, pubes- 
cent with simple hairs, slightly aristate, somewhat recurved 
in maturity: privates exceeding the filaments. —Chihuahua 
and Sonora, Mexic 
Type (San Miguel, Chihuahua, Palmer 4, in 1885) in 
shad bid Columbia College, Nat. herb. and herb. J. D. 
A. STELLATA GLABRATA Sacra 
Telanthera stellata glabrata Rose in Nat. herb 
Plant glabrous ie Saag otherwise ict differing from the 
Species. —Sonora, Mexico 
