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the plant Rafinesque must have had in mind when he proposed 

 the genus Buinalis, as is evident from the description thereof 

 herewith appended.' 



Another genus is proposed by the same author, that is 



I As the works of Rafinesque are rare we think it best to reproduce the 

 publication of both Buinalis and Plagidia. 



Rafinesque, C. S. New Flora and Botany of North America, Phil- 

 adelphia, (1836), p. 40. 



830 BUINALIS Raf. dioical. calix deeply 5 fid persistent, base turbinate 

 with 5 tubercles at the clefts, segments flat edged and crowned by a thick 

 colored membrane. Corolla none, male fl. with 5 stamens perigynous 

 inserted on the calyx short filiform fertile, and 5 alternate sterile without 

 anthers, sometimes lacking. In female fl. ovary ovate, stple filiform elongate 

 stigma simple. Fruit Akena ovate smooth monosperm. Stem articulate, 

 leaves opposite sessile entire stipulate, flowers fascicled — a new G. or fam. 

 It differs from my G. Steiremis in fl. tellur. by dioical single calix, free stamens, 

 etc. It has the habit of Herniaria and Anychia to which it is also related 

 but differs by dioical flowers and single style, besides the calix not angular 

 not acute, etc. The name was an old latin one of Herniaria. 



831 Buinalis floridana Raf. Herniaria Americana Coll. herb. Anychia 

 floridana Baldw. do — prostrate diffuse subdichotome fuscate, leaves sessile 

 cuneate or obovate obtuse or sub- (p. 41) acute, entire thickish; flowers 

 sessile terminal in leafy ramulose. — In the sands of Florida, found by 

 Baldwin, perennial, almost suffruticose, stems 3-6 inches long, very ramose, 

 stipules scariose ovate acuminate, leaves small 2-3 times long, quite brown 

 in the dry specimens; flowers minute dark purple margined of white the 

 ends of segments truncate almost retuse forming a vault but not a hood. 

 These flowers are at the ends of the small branches crowded with small 

 leaves and stipules. 



834 Plagidia Raf. difference from Anychia, calix conical pentagonal, 

 segments unequal acuminate not hooded, stamens 5 fertile. Style bifid, 

 2 stigmas acute. Annual plants? leaves obliqual broader, flowers in dichotomies. 

 The name derives from the double obliquity of the leaves. All these genera 

 belong to the Amaranthides. . . . 



p. 43. 839 Argyrocoma imbricata Raf., etc. 



.... A third spieces Par. sessiliflora N. but his P. hernarioides is prob- 

 ably of next genus. 



840 Plagidia rufa Raf. Anychia hernarioides Mx ? dichotome scabrous, 

 much branched astigiate entirely rufous, leaves obliqual crowded elliptic 

 mucronate ciliolate, stipules lanceolate acuminate, flowers solitary. — 

 Described from a specimen from Florida anonymous in Collins herb, appar- 

 ently the plant of Mx. but I can't be certain as he omitted the singular 

 obliquity of the leaves almost as in Chamasyke, and the striking rufous 

 color almost like snuff of the whole plant even the stipules, about 3 inches 

 high, leaves 3 lines long, quite obliqual at the base altho's sessile, flowers 

 few and small. 



