34 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [Feb., 
had not seen, except occasional specimens, since 1878. 
some places that I had looked over pretty thoroughly in pre- 
vious years, I have found plants that I had never seen before. 
I have added over thirty species to my collection that I had 
not before obtained. ; 
any plants have been introduced here both from semi- ° 
tropical and temperate latitudes, and several have escaped 
from cultivation. 
lect by means of boats. The only way to obtain it is to search 
carefully when it is washed ashore. 
The leaves are bright green, long, very slender, and one 
nerved. The blossoms are dicecious, arranged in two verti- 
cal rows on the face of a spadix, which is enclosed in the 
dilated base of a leaf-like spathe. Within the margin, on 
each side, is a series of short dilated foliaceous appendages. 
These appendages cover the blossoms, and in the staminate 
plant are reflexed at maturity ; in fruit the base of the nutlets 
is covered by the appendages. 
Imperfect specimens of this plant were collected here by 
r. Torrey, and it was described under the name of Phyl- 
lospadix Torreyi, but the staminate blossoms were unknown 
out the year, frequently ‘in large quantities ; it blooms in July 
and August, and the pistillate plant is sometimes abundant, 
