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L. pauciplora, Pursh. — I have no doubt that this is a branch- 

 ed state of L. secunda, probably caused by some injury to the 

 summit of the stem. The allied species are not unfrequently 

 met with in a similar condition. There is no essential difference 

 in the descriptions of L. secunda and pauciflora, if we exclude 

 the pseudo-paniculate character of the latter. 



Coreopsis discoidea, Torr. fy Gray. — Not uncommon in the 

 low country of N. and S. Carolina. 



Baldwinia uniflora, Niitt., P purpurea. — Disc flowers and 

 summits of the interior scales of the involucre dark purple. Stem 

 2-2J feet high ; lower leaves 3-4 inches long, with a long taper- 

 ing base. Flowers 1^-2 inches in diameter. — Springy ground 

 near Society Hill, S. Car. Sept. 



Marshallia lanceolata, Pursh. $ platyphylla. — Radical 

 j leaves broadly spatulate or oblanceolate, those of the stem becom- 



ing oblong, lanceolate, or lance-oblong, amplexicaul. Radical 

 leaves 5-6 inches in length, with long slender bases, the cauline 

 with gradually shorter bases, the upper sessile. Stem leafy to near 

 half its height. This form has a strong resemblance to M. lati- 

 folia. — Middle country of N. Carolina. I have collected a very 

 similar form, but with narrower leaves, near Augusta, Georgia. 



Physalis maritima, n. sp.— Softly villous and generally hoary, 

 erect or decumbent, dichotomous. Leaves oval-oblong or oval, 

 entire, petioled, often in pairs, acute at base, the summit obtuse. 

 Flowers (yellow) on slender nodding pedicels. Fruiting calyx 

 inflated, large, ovate, smoothish, enclosing the berry.— Sandy 

 seo-shore of N. Car., and occasionally a few miles in the interior. 

 Pedicels an inch long, equalling the petioles. Flowers through 

 the summer. This can hardly be P. pubescens, Pursh, to which 

 Gray & Engelmann have doubtfully referred it in Plantae Lind- 



hejmerianae. 



Asclepias aceratoides, n. sp> — Stem low, erect, tementose 

 I pubescent ; leaves coarse and rather rigid, opposite, short petioled, 



mucronate, somewhat whitish tomentose when young especially 

 beneath, acute at base, oval, oblong, and elliptic-oblong, obtuse 

 or with a short acuminatum. Umbels numerous, sublateral, sub- 

 sessile, loosely few flowered. Pedicels long, (1 inch,) pubescent. 

 Flowers large and greenish. Calyx segments linear-lanceolate, 

 \ pubescent, nearly half the length of the corol. Divisions of the 



corol ovate, obtuse, pubescent, longer than the crown. Hoods 

 equalling the gynostegium, obliquely truncate outwards, the 

 points obtuse ; horn adnate to the hood to its summit, triangulai 

 falcate, compressed, slightly exsert, and, like the interior of the 

 hood, minutely pubescent. 



Three to twelve inches high, beginning to blossom at a small 

 height. Umbels at first sessile, then sometimes acquiring a short 



