MR. DRUMMOND'S COLLECTIONS. 
blunter, and do not seem disposed to 
form a beak over the capsule in a more 
advanced state. 
800. P. pusilla. Nutt.—N. Orl. (n. 270.) 
Pennsylvania.—This plant is extremely 
common in the United States, in every 
parallel of latitude; and is readily dis- 
tinguished by its slender habit, filiform 
leaves, and remote flowers. Bracteas 
and calyx-leaves ovate, green, with a 
broad white margin, generally glabrous. 
I have never seen the stamens exserted 
in any of my specimens (probably they 
are very fugacious). Corolla but little 
longer than the calyx; segments very 
small, eventually closing, but not so 
connivent as to form a beak. Capsule 
ovate, pale, shining, two-celled, each 
cell bearing two black oval seeds.—From 
Dr. Short I have specimens with scapes 
a span high, gathered at Milledgeville, 
Georgia, by Dr. Boykin. From speci- 
mens sent by Mr. Greene, it is clear that 
thisisthe P. hybrida of Barton, as is sus- 
pected by Dr. Torrey, who further doubts 
if it be not the P. interrupta of Lamarck 
and Elliott? Elliott's plant it cannot well 
be, for he describes it as a perennial, 
and with leaves much like those of P. 
lanceolata. It is probable that Michaux's 
P. sparsiflora may be a broad-leaved 
State of this plant; and the P. Caroli- 
niana of Pursh, whatever Walter's plant 
of that name may be, I should have lit- 
tle hesitation in referring to pusilla : but 
so imperfectly have the American spe- 
cies been characterized, that it is not 
safe to speak positively, and without 
access to authentic specimens. Indeed 
few genera need a careful revision more 
than Plantago 
NYCTAGINEJX. Juss. 
801. Boerhaavia erecta, L.—Covington. 
AMARANTHACES. Juss. 
802. Amaranthus viridis, L.—N. Orl. 
(n. 271 and 611 ?) 
22) polygonoides, L.—N. Orl. (n. 
61 
804. A. spinosus, L.—N. Orl. (n. 272, 
bis.)—St. Louis. 
805. A. Blitum, L.—N. Orl. (n. 272.) 
806. A. chlorostachys, Willd.—St. Louis. 
Covington. 
807. A. paniculatus, L.—St. Louis. 
808. Bucholzia polygonoides, Mart. 
(Achyranthes, Lam. Gomphrena, L.) 
—N. Orl. (n. 273.) 
CHENOPODEJX. Vent. 
809. Acnida cannabina, L. var.—N. Orl. 
810. Chenopodium album, L. (spicis su- 
perioribus aphyllis paniculatis.)—Cov- 
ington. 
C. ambrosioides, L.—St. Louis. 
812. C. anthelminticum, Mich. — St. 
Louis. Jacksonville. 
813. C, hybridum, L.—St. Louis. 
814. C. Botrys, L.—St. Louis.—On fine 
specimens of this, which I have received 
from Dr. Short, he says,—* I am sur- 
prized that Nuttall should say the spe- 
cies is not strictly indigenous to the 
United States, since the accompanyin 
specimens were found on the almost in- 
accessible cliffs of the Kentucky river.” 
PHYTOLACCE. Br. 
815. Phytolacca decandra, L.—St. Louis. 
N. Orl. (n. 275.) and 1833. 
POLYGONES. Juss. 
816. Brunnichia cirrhosa, Gertn. —N. 
Orl 
817. Polygonum punctatum, Ell.—N. 
Orl. St. Louis.—Scarcely any thing 
more than a var. of our P. Hydropiper. 
818. P. mite, Pers.—N. Orl. (n. 278.)— 
St. Louis. 
819. P. Persicaria, L.—St. Louis. N. 
Orl. 
820. P. Pennsylvanicum, L.—St. Louis. 
821. P. coccineum, Ph.—P. amphibium, 
and terrestre, Torrey.—St. Louis. 
P. Virginianum, L.—St. Louis. 
Jacksonville. 
823. P. cilinode, Mich.—Alleghanies. 
824. P. scandens, L.—St. Louis. 
P. sagittatum, L.—N. Orl. (n. 276.) 
