128 Dr. Leavenworth on several New Plants. 
Hab. in small excavations on flat rocks, where the soil is wet 
during the flowering season; Newton County, Georgia. Flow- 
ers in March and April. Dr. M. C. Leavenworth ! 
Oss.—Specimens of this minute plant were sent to me in the 
autumn of 1836, by the discoverer, and also by Dr. Boykin, of 
Milledgeville, Georgia, who received them from Dr. Leaven- 
worth. It has hitherto been found only in one spot, where it 
occupies a space of four or five feet in diameter, to the exclusion 
of almost all other plants. It resembles, at first sight, a Calli- 
triche ; and when overflowed, the slender scapes doubtless be- 
come natant. 'The plant belongs to the order Scrophularinee, 
and is nearly allied to Veronica. Its characters and habit are, 
however, so peculiar, that there can be little doubt of its consti- 
tuting anew genus. From Veronica it differs in its tubular-in- 
fundibuliform, 5-lobed, and somewhat bilabiate corolla. The 
most remarkable character of the plant is its twofold inflores- 
cence ; part of the flowers being produced near the root, on short 
naked pedicels which originate among the radical leaves, while 
others are supported on long capillary bibracteate scapes. The 
flowers in both situations are perfect; not like those of Amphi- 
carpeea, some species of Polygala, and many Viole, of which 
those produced near the root are incomplete. In Miliwn amphi- 
carpon, Pursh, (of which Kunth has made a distinct genus, ) the 
subterranean flowers, asin the Amphianthus, are perfect, like 
those of the panicle. 
In describing the seeds, I have used the term anatropous in the 
sense in which it is employed by Mirbel, and as explained by 
Dr. Gray in his excellent Elements of Botany. 
STILLINGIA OBLONGIFOLIA, mht. 
A new species, Linnean class Moneecia, natural order Euphor- 
bee. Fruticose, (shrubby,) stem erect, 3 to 4 feet in height pre- 
vious to branching, smooth, # of an inch in thickness; branches 
terminating the shrub (terminal) 4 to 6, 6 inches in length, spa- 
ringly subdivided ; leaves entire, somewhat coriaceous, glabrous 
and shining above, paler beneath, 3 to 4 inches in length, ob- 
long, obtuse, slightly narrowed at base, an inch in width; petiole 
about 2 lines in length; leaves mostly at the extremity of the 
branches; spikes of flowers terminating the branches. Flower- 
ing in May. Found in flat, grassy, and somewhat wet situa- 
tions in the piny woods one and a half miles west of Fort Frank 
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