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slightly curved, hairy, brownish, the two caruncle-lobes' 

 broad, spongy, almost as long as the seed itself. 



The validity of /^. RcynoIdsia\ Chapman, is doubted by 

 the collector. The plant seems to me to be a stout form of 

 the abo\'c. 



Type of P. /\;/£-r/// in Herb. Kcw. Authentic specimen of 

 P. RijHoIdsitr m Herb. Col. Coll. 



Florida, — Buckley, Dr. B.Smith, Palmer; Manatee, 1S45, 

 Rugel, No. 26; Manatee Co., 1887, Dr. Rothrock; Tampa 

 Bay, 1S39, Dr. Leavenworth; Tampa, 1877 and 1878. Dr. 

 Garber, No. ii; Lake Monroe, 1876, Dr. Garber; Polk Co., 

 1880, J. D. Smith; Mosquito Lagoon, A. H. Curtiss, No. 

 522;'- near St. Augustine, 1882, Miss Mary C, Reynolds, (dist. 

 as P, Kiynoldsi'a\ Chapman); near St. Augustine, Miss Flint, 

 (dist. as P. ReynoIdsiiV, Chapman). 



5, P. LUTEA, L. Spec. PI. 705, (1753). 



P. pscudo-sencga. Bertol. Bot. Misc. xv. 21, t. 3, f. 2. 

 (1854)., fide Gray in Am. Jour. Sci. ii. 24, 287. 



Glabrous throughout; stems ascending?, flcxuous, 6'- 12^ 

 high, simple or branched, more or less striate; root-leaves 

 rosulate, spatulate, ^'-2' long, or, in some cases, few, broadly 

 spatulate, smaller; stem-leaves alternate, oblanceolate or 

 lanceolate, ^^'-i^^' 1*^'^^' ^^^^ lower ones obtuse^, the upper 

 acute; spikes ovoid or globose, 6''-9" in diameter, compact; 

 pedicels \'^-\ y2" long; flowers orange-yellow, wings ob- 

 ovate-elliptical, cuspidate, 2'^-3'' 1<^"J>^ about /-veined, crest 

 of keel small, fimbriate: stamens eight in number; style 

 rather long and slender, minutely cucullate above the middle 

 around and above the distinctly pedicelled stfg-matic gland 

 and prolonged above into a slender, slightly curved, tufted 

 appendage; capsule small; seeds dark-brown, long-ovoid, 

 small, slightly hairy, somewhat curved, minutely beaked, the 

 two caruncle-lobes narrow, almost as long as the seed. 



New York. — Long Lsland, Babylon, 1868, Herb. James 

 S. ?^Icrriam. AVzt' Jersey. — Pine barrens, 1S56, Dr. Short; 

 Burlington, S. W, Conrad; Bordentown, 1876, Dr. Porter; 



