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_ bordering Lake Louisa, Seville, Volusia co., Florida, September 3 (no. 
: 6894), are identified with Koernicke’s description and plate. _ 
Atriplex Lampa Gillies ex Mog. in DC. Prodr. ¥3°: 716. 4 
South American species introduced upon ballast grounds near Pensa- 
cola (no. 6865). 
GALENIA sEcuNDA Sond. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. 2 : 474. A South 
African plant introduced and now formin g broad mats in waste ground 
about Pensacola (no. 686 9). 
ILex DEcIpua Walt. var. Curtissii.— Leaves as in the species, but 
when mature only 1 or 2™ long: berries smaller than in the species, 4 
or 5™" in diameter. — Dryish land sloping to the Suwannee river-bot- 
tom, Branford, Florida, October 24, 1900 (no. 6736). According to 
| Mr. Curtiss’s notes the trees in the neighboring swamp had similarly 
reduced leaves. Again collected by Mr. Curtiss on Peace river, near 
Nocatee, De Soto co., Florida, April 13, rgor. 
SAPIUM BIGLANDULOsUM Muell. Arg. var. LANCEOLATUM Muell. Arg. 
Linnaea 32:118. A native of Brazil, Argentine Republic, and Peeme « 
: Guyana, introduced in waste places at Pensacola (no. 6859). 
LECHEA Leccerrn Britton & Hollick, Torr. Cl. Prelim. Cat. N. Ni: 
tug In dry Pine barrens near St. Marks, Wakulla co., Florida, Joly 25; 
 W9or- (no, 9847). Rare or unrecorded south of Virginia. 
a ‘Lythrum ii—Stems slender, glabrous, prominently pee 
weeding and loosely branched above, 6 or 7°™ high: leaves glabrous, 2 
2 » lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, short-petioled or subsessile; the 
See ‘ones 2 to 5.5 long; those of the elongated slender 
oe “y T to 1.5™ long: flowers mostly solitary i in the axils: 
arrowly cy a slightly constricted at the throat, strongly 
™, becoming 5™ long, the deltoid-subulate lobes 
“a the bristle-like appendages : petals 6, the oblong- 
» pale purple with a dark stripe: stamens | 
os miry swam P; Leary’ &; Dee August 19, 190 
— an elas i : ctobe 
ih leaves very eon 8 to 12 | ae 
