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Trachysperma lacunosa (Vent.) comb. nov. 



Villarsia lacunosa Vent. Choix des Plantes, 9. 1803. 

 Limnanthemum lacnnosiim Griseb. Gent. 347. 1839. 

 N y m p h o i d e s lacnnosiim Kuntzc, 1. c. — Fernald, 1. c. 54. 



Trachysperma humboldtiana (H.B.K.) comb. nov. 



VM 1 1 a r s i a h n m ^b o 1 d t i a n a H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp., 3 : 187. iSiQ. 

 Limnanthemum h u m b o 1 d t i a n nm Griseb. Gent. 347. 1839. 

 Nymphoides humboldtianum Kuntze, 1. c. 429. 



Trachyspermum gray ana (Griseb.) comb. nov. 



Limnanthemum .gray an um Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 181. 1866. 

 Nymphoides g r a y a n u m Kuntze, 1. c. 429. 



Andrachne pumila (Raf.) comb. nov. 



Synexemia pumila Raf. Neogent. 2. 1825. 



Lepidanthus phyllanthoides Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, 5:175. 



1837. 

 Andrachne phyllanthoides Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr., 15 -.435. 

 1862. 



This small Euphorbiaceous plant is placed by Rafinesque in his 

 genus Synexemia, based upon Phyllanthus Carolin- 

 ian u s Walt. The description is brief and admittedly poor but 

 possesses certain points which can apply to no other Euphorbiaceous 

 plants found in Kentucky. The description reads as follows : 



"3. S . pumila Raf. erect, branches angular, leaves petiolate, 

 obovate, obtuse, entire, glaucous beneath, flowers germinate, droop- 

 ing, one male, one female, Kentucky ; flowers yellowish, capsule 

 trilocular?" 



GEBOSCON Raf. Cat. 14. 1824. 



Pseudoscordnm Herb. Amaryll. 11. 1837. 



Nothoscordum Kunth, Enum. 4 : 457. 1843. 



Caloscordum Herb. In Lindl. Bot. Reg. Mies. 66. 1844. 



Hesperocles Salisb. Gen. PI. Fragm. 85. 1866. 



O 1 i g o s m a Salisb. 1. c. 



P e r i 1 o b a Raf. FI. Tellur., 4 : 87. 1840. 



Geboscon bivalve (L.) comb. nov. 



r n i t li o g a 1 u m b i v a 1 v c L. Sp. PI. 306. 1753. 

 Allium o rni thogalol de s Walt. Fl. Car. 121. 17>'8. 



Allium striatum Jacq. Coll. Suppl. 51. 1796. 



Geboscon striatum Raf., I.e. 



Nothoscordum striatum Kunth, I.e. 459. 



N. bivalve Britton, in Britton ^- Brown, Illus. Fl. 1:415. IQ08. 



01 logos ma bi\ alve Salisb. Gen. PI. Fragm. 85. 1866. 



This member of the Alliaceae (onion family), known as the yellow 

 false garlic, ranges from Virginia to Ohio, Tennessee, Nebraska, 

 Florida, Texas and Mexico. It appears to have been known by 



