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Another G. of the family Linidia besides those of my fl. tellur. 

 Habit similar, but the inequality of calix is very striking and 

 generic. The name means not true flax, and several sp. of it are 

 perhaps blended in Linum. ..." 



"901 Nezera albiflora Raf. Linum striatum Walter in 

 Coll. herb, stem virgate simple subangular, leaves linear acuminate 

 adpressed, margin rough, upper subulate, flowers subcorymbose. 

 few, peduncles equal to calix segments ovate acuminate uninerve. 

 petals obovate — Hills of Georgia and Carolina, pedal slender, 

 leaves smaller and not so crowded as in the last, flowers with 3 

 corymbose branches bearing 2 or 3 flowers, the lateral on short 

 peduncles, calix with unequal segments but of uniform shape, 

 petals white smaller than in the last and narrower obtuse not 

 flabellate. vStem not striate as it ought to be in L. striatum of 

 Walter omitted by all our botanists. — I find in a collection of 

 plants made in Texas by Drummond (and sent me by Torrey 

 without names, altho' (p. 66) he says that Hooker has named 

 them in his compendium) two new Flax apparently of this genus 

 which I have designated as follows. ..." 



The Nezera albiflora Raf. which he declined to call Nezera 

 striata because he failed to find in the dried plant the striations 

 he mentions is therefore considered by him as also the Kew Index 

 as Linum striatum Walter, or Cathartolinum striatum (Walt.) 

 Small which heads the list of segregates in that author's flora. 

 Other species are A^. virginiana (h-), cathartica (L.), sulcata (Redd), 

 rigida (Pursh.), etc. Linum do. of the manuals. 



Anychiastrum Small, a Synonym. 



In the New Flora of North America Rafinesque proposed 

 the genus Buinalis^ typified by B. floridana. As a synonym he 

 gives " Herniaria floridana Bald, do." On the authority of the 

 Index Kewensis this is identified with Paronychia Baldivinii (T. & 

 G.) Fenzl,^ or Anychia Baldivinii T. & G.-' On studying the 

 description of Rafinesque, it would appear that the conclusion 

 of the Kew Index seems unwarranted; for there is a considerable 

 discrepancy between the plant we know as Paronychia Baldivinii 

 (T. & G.) Fenzl, or Anychiastrum Baldivinii (T. & G.) Small, and 



1 Rafinesque C. S., New Flora of N. Am. Ncobotanon, p. 40, (1836). 



2 Fenzl. in Walp. Rep. i, p. 262, (1842). 



3 Torrey, J. & Gray, A. Fl. N. Am. i, p. 172, (1838-40). 



