292 Catalogue of Plants growing in East-Florida. 



Branches opposite, leaves narrow, linear, acute, smooth, and 

 membranaceous. Flowers greenish yellow, minute. Seg- 

 ments of the calix very obtuse and short, those of the corol- 

 la oblong, with a brownish line towards the base of each. 

 Lepanthium very short, five toothed. Polliniferous cells as 

 in Asclepias. Follicles terete, even, and subulate. Seedy 

 linear and immarginate. 



Asclepias verticillata. Lin. 



A. incarnata. Willd. 



Amsonia Angustifolia. Mich. 



Gentiana catesbrei. Waller. 



Eryngium. virginianum. Persoon. 



E. aromaticum. Baldrvin in Elliot's Flora, p. 344. 



Peucedanum ternatum. NutlnWs Genra. 1. p. 182. 



Salsola salsa. Willd. 



Statice Limonium. Lin. S. Caroliniana. Walter Flor. 

 Car. 118. 



Linum Virginicum. Lin. 



HEXANDRIA. 



Tillandsia * Bartrami, foliis ensiformibus attenuatis gla« 

 bris, panicula multiflora : floribus alternis distinctis. T. 

 lingulala or Wild Pine. Bartram's St. p. 61. 



T. polystachya. Muhlenbergh Catal. 



Observations. — Leaves all radical, two or three feet 

 long, attenuated, having broad sheathing bases, crowded 

 together so as to form a vase for retaining water. Panicle 

 naked, very large, formed of alternate branches, incum- 

 bent on each other, including the scape, commonly about 

 three feet high. The flowers are distinct and alternate, 

 each subtended by an ovate obvallate bracte. (Flower not 

 seen.) 



Mr. Ware plucked one specimen from the trunk of a live 

 oak, which he supposed to weigh about fifteen pounds. 

 T. tenuifolia, Swartz. Fl. Ind. ace. 1. p. 592. 

 T. monostachya. Bartram's H. p. 61. 



Observations. — Leaves subulate, erect, and about the 

 hei!;ht of the flower stem, covered as in U. Usneoides with 

 hoary surpuraceous scales, scape covered with sheathing 

 bracitts, flowers imbricated into a single, linear oblong 



