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Florida : " In campis graminosis prope St. Mark's," July, 

 1843, RugcL " Low pine-barrens, sometimes in rather dry places, 

 July and August," O'/rr////^;/ (Biltmore Herbarium, no. 4i68r). 



Ludwigia maritima sp. nov. 



" L. virgata Mx." Ell. Bot. S.C. & Ga. i : 216. 18 17. 



Plant cinereous-puberulent, 3-6 dm. tall : branches mostly on 

 the upper half of the plant, less distinctly virgate, slightly angled 

 by the decurrent margins of the leaves : leaves lanceolate to ob- 

 long, sessile, the upper ones more conspicuous than in L. virgata : 

 bracts usually equaling or exceeding the flowers : sepals about 

 twice as long as the ovary, reflexcd at anthesis, soon afterward 

 ascending, finally deciduous : style shorter than the sepals and 

 about the same length as the stamens, cylindrical : stigma hemi- 

 spherical, twice as broad as the style : capsule distinctly W'inged 

 on the angles. 



In rather dry pine-barrens or meadow-like areas, South Caro- 

 lina (?), Georgia and Florida to Mississippi, mostly near the coast. 



Specimens examined : 



Georgia : Meadow between dunes and beach, east of the hotel, 

 Cumberland Island, Camden Co., Aug. 19, 1902, Harper (no. 

 1542) (type). 



Florida : Locality not specified, Cliapvmn (no. 44) ; Simpson, 

 1889 (no. 4906). Low fields and roadsides, Duval Co., June, 

 A. H. Ciirtiss (no. 918). Pablo, Duval Co., June 12, 1896, L. 

 H. Lighthipe {x\o. 271). Low pine land near Eustis, May, 1894, 

 G. V. Nash (no. 750). Flatwoods, Myers, July or August, 1900, 

 A. S. Hitchcock (no. 120). Braidentown, June 29, 1900, 5. 31. 

 Tracy (no. 7087). Tampa, Aug. 25, 1903, Britton &- Wilson 

 (no. 22). "In pinelands, P't. Lauderdale," Nov. 19 or 25, 1903, 

 Small & Carter {no. 1014). 



Alabama : Locality not specified. Gates. 



Mississippi : Point St. Martin, June 20, 1898, 5. M. Tracy 

 (no. 5067). Biloxi, Sept. 10, 1900, Lloyd & Tracy (no. 219). 



Of PLUiott's description above cited, which I have little doubt 

 applies to this plant, Torrey and Gray say : * " The description 

 of Elliott's L. virgata appears to be taken in part from L. hirtclla," 



*ri. N. A. I : 523. 1S40. 



