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are known. It was detected by Rev. T. P. Hunt about 

 thirty miles N: E. of Wilmington, I think near Beattie's 

 Mills. I am indebted to the same gentleman for several 

 other species of rare occurrence. 



(19) Oxicoccus macrocarpus. Introduced on the au- 

 thority of popular report, I have never visited the 

 locality where it is said to grow. 



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(20) Lidtris tomentosa. (L. Walteri, £///) Stem two 

 feet high, simple, tomentose ; leaves at the base of the 

 stem cuneate lanceolate, the lowest with a long attenuated 

 base, but dilating at their junction with the stem; upper 

 leaves lanceolate, closely sessile, all terminated by a 

 whitish gland ; flowers in a terminal corymb, branches 

 2 — 4 flowered, peduncles about an inch long, thickening 

 upward; calyx about 20 flowered, scales acute,^tomen- 

 tose. Hab. savannahs. Flowers in September. 



This is the true L. tomentosa, Mx. Elliott's plant of 

 this name is the L. corymbosa, Nutt. which, though close- 

 ly allied, appears to be a distinct species. 



(21) SVphium terebinthindceum ; var : simidtum. Stem 

 naked, 4 — 6 ft. high, smooth and glaucous. Leaves radi- 

 cal, pinnatifid, segments mostly toothed, somewhat sca- 

 brous, having scattered hairs, margin very rough ; petioles 



inches lonff. smooth. On the stem are three or four 

 distant leaflets 2 — 3 lines long. Flowers small, in corym- 

 bose panicles ; outer scales of the involucrum roundish 

 oval, inner ones longer, obtuse, minutely ciliate ; florets 

 of the ray 4 — 6, irregularly inserted, half an inch long, 

 twice as Jong as the involucrum; of the disk numerous, 

 having exserted, clavate, simple styles, pubescent at the 

 summit ; seeds winged, obovate, emarginate, two toothed 

 when young, those of the disk abortive. Chaff of the 

 receptacle shorter than the florets of the ray, obtuse, pu- 

 bescent at the summit. 



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