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gamous or dioecious, borne in cluster-like cymules all along the 

 branches, or solitary in the axils, the bracts resembling the leaves 

 but smaller. Calyx campanulate or urcolate, nearly sessile in the 

 bractlets: sepals 5, with very broad wing-margins and a thick 

 mucro, hooded. Stamens 5, included: filaments short- filiform: 

 anthers didymous. Ovary i -celled, by abortion: styles 2, short, 

 distinct: stigmas minute. Utricle lenticular, included. (Gen- 

 etic name an anagram of Anychia, a related genus.) 



I . N. piilvinata Small. Stem branched at the base, the branches 

 radially spreading and repeatedly dichotomous, 5-20 cm. long, 

 wiry, minutely puberulent or pubescent: leaf-blades ovate to 

 triangular-ovate, 1-5.3 mm. long, strongly revolute, obtuse, 

 rounded or truncate at the base, sessile: stipules torn into 

 capillary segments: bracts and bractlets in pairs: calyx 0.5 

 mm. long and slightly elongating in anthesis or in fruit, the 

 sepal-hoods blunt-tipped, the winged margins broad, often 

 suborbicular: anthers about 0.3 mm. long or less: utricle oval 

 or ellipsoid, about 0.4 mm. long. — Ancient dunes, southern end 

 of the lake region, Florida. 



The southern part of the Florida lake-region is rich in endemic 

 plants. The present genus is one of the less conspicuous plants, 

 except as it forms in green spots on the snow-white sand. It 

 is related to Anychia, but differs from it in the distinct styles 

 and included fruits, the fleshy bractlets, and in the habit of 

 growth. It is one of the smaller plants forming the association 

 of the "scrub," but it is conspicuous by its bright green color 

 and cushion-like growth, the plants appearing as mere tufts 

 which often develop into cushions one to two feet in diameter. 

 The type specimens, collected by the writer, in the "scrub" 

 between Avon Park and Sebring, Florida, December 13, 1920, 

 number 9782, are in the herbarium of The New York Botanical 

 Garden. 



The New York Botanical Garden. 



THE ENGLISH SPARROW 



I live in a large brick house, one wall of which is covered 

 with Boston ivy and in the shelter of this handsome vine the 

 English sparrows roost by the hundreds, old and young together. 

 Nearby there is a very old English walnut tree in the corner of 

 the vegetable garden, with a rose garden adjoining and a few 

 peach trees scattered about. The sparrows are very tame, 



