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MONANDRIA. 



Salicornia herbacea. Willdenoiv. and PursL 



DIANDRIA. 



f Gratioh * micrantha, caule erecto, angulato ; foliis lan- 

 ceolatis acutis serratis basi attenuatis ; pedunculis foliis bre- 

 vioribusj calycibus (ebracteatis) quandripartitis, stamina 4. 



Observation — A species of very unusual aspect; stem 

 irregularly angular? apparently about a foot high, and con- 

 sid:;rably branched. Leaves narrow, and much attenuated 

 below. Peduncles filiform, scarcely one third th- length of 

 the leaves. Segments of the calix 4-parted, naked, calix oval. 

 Corolla (apparently minute, white ?) the internal surface of 

 the tube densely covered with hairs. Capsules globose- 

 ovate, crowned with the persisting style. The dissepiments 

 of the 2-celled capsule formed by the inflected margins of 

 the valves coalescing with the seminal placenta. Scarc-iy 

 perhaps of this genus, but my specimens are too imperfect 

 to warrant any additional remarks. 



Pinguicula pumilla. Mich. Flor. Am. 1. p. !L 



Gratiola acuminata. Walter and Elliott, p. J 5, no? of 

 Pursh. _ G. anagallidea. Mich. 1. p. 5. Excluding Pursh 

 and Elliott's synonim of Lindernia. 



Elytrania virgata Alich. 1. p. 9. 



Salvia azurea. Lamark, Encycl. 6. p. 625, S. lyrata. 

 Lin. 



Piper *leptostachyon, herbaceum, pusillum ; foliis obo- 

 vatis obtusis subtrinerviis pubescentibus ; spicis axillaribus 

 filiformibus erectis foliis multo longioribus. Hub. In East 

 Florida. 



Observations. — Apparently annual. The stems about 

 a span high, in the dried specimen are clothed with short 

 rupous hairs, which are more or less abundant — also upon 

 the leaves. Leaves opposite, petiolate ; spikes filiform, 

 sometime', more than one in each axill, three or four 

 inches long. Stamens apparently two, persistent with the 



