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length of the petiole. The flowers are very small. The 

 Ciilix formed of consimilar ablong-linear segments. Fih- 

 form segments of the crown, (or lepanthium) few, and 

 shorter than the calix Berries about the size of peas, 

 purple. 



Opiotheca Fioridana, NultaWs Genera 2. p. 79. 



Pistia spathulata. Mich. 



Sida rhombifolia. Wild. 



Hibiscus *penlaspermus, H. Virginicus. Mich. 2. p. 46. 



Observations — Leaves partly hastate, the lower ones 

 subsessile. Flowers small, red, with a yellow base, partly 

 disposed in irregular few-flowered riicemes Exterior ca- 

 lix, as usual muUitid and filiform. Capsule hirsute, de- 

 pressed, pentangular, five-celled, indivisible, each cell one- 

 seeded. This species is nearly allied to urena. Hah. from 

 Cape Henlopen to East Florida. 



DIADELPHIA. 



Petalostemon corymbosum Mich. 



Petalostemon *roseum, glabrum, foliolis linearibus, brac- 

 teis subulatis brevissimis persistentibus ; calycibus striatis 

 glabris. 



Observations. — A species possessing very much the 

 habit of P. violaceum, but with the calix perfectly smooth, 

 and the petals of a rose colour. 



Polygala pubesceus. KuttaWs Genera 2. p. 87. 



P. lutea Wild. Sp. PI. 3. p. 894. 



Erythrina herbacea. Wild. 3. p. 912. 



Lathyrus palustris. Wild. 3. p. 1000. 



Psoraiea. 



Lupinusdiffusus. NuttaWs Gen. 2. p. 92. 



Hedysarum panicuiatum. Wild, 



jEschynomene viscidula. Mich. 3. p. 74. 



Sesbania platycarpa. Persoon. Syn. 2. p. 316. 



S. Macrocarpa. NutlaWs Gen. 2. p. 114. 



Glycine erecta. NuttaWs Gen. 2. p. 114. 



G. caribaea. Wild. Jacquin. Tc. rar. 1. t. 146. G. re- 

 flexa. NuttaWs Gen. 2. p. 115. 



Indigofera caroliniana. Walter. Mich. 2. p. 68. 



