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base, as long as the fertile ones. (Achyranthes repens, Elt] — Along roads and 

 places much trodden, Florida to South Carolina. June -Oct. IJ. — Stoma 6'- 

 12' long. Leaves 1' long. 



9. TELANTHERA, B. Brown. 



Flowers perfect, 3-braoted. Sepals 5, erect. Stamens 5, united into >■ tube 

 below the middle. Sterile filaments elongated, flattened, fimbriate at the apex : 

 anthers l-celled, oblong. Style short: stigma capitate. Utriclo indehiscent, 

 1-seeded, included in the calyx. Seed' vertical. Radicle ascending. — Herbs or 

 slimbs, with opposite leaves. Flowers capitate. 



* Cali/x sessile, the 3 exterior sepals longer : heads sessile or nearly so, 



1. T. polygonoides, Moquin. Stem erect or prostrate, pubescent j leaves 

 oblong-obovate, hairy ; heads sessile, roundish, single or 2 - 3 together, axillary 

 and terminal ; sepals thin, ovate-lanceolate, twice as long as the bracts, the outer 

 ones 3-nerved, woolly at the base ; sterile filaments as long as the fertile ones, 

 3 - 4-cleft at the apex. — On the coast of South Carolina, Moquin. 



2. T. maritima, Moquin. Smooth and fleshy ; stem prostrate, branching, 

 angled ; leaves wedge-obovate, very obtuse, mucronatc ; heads roundish or ob- 

 long, axillary and terminal, dull straw-color, rigid ; flowers crowded, 3-angled ; 

 sepals smooth, rigid, ovate, acuminate, 5-ribbed, with the margins membrana- 

 ceous, one third longer than the ovate keeled bracts ; sterile filaments longer 

 than the fertile ones, 4-6-cleft at the apex. — South Florida. — Leaves l'-2' 

 long. Heads 4"- 6" long. 



* * Cali/x raised on a short b-angled pedicel ; the sepals nearly equal, ajlindrical, 

 liairij : heads long-pedunckd. 



3. T. Ploridana, n. sp. Shrubby ; stem slender, elongated, forking, 

 remotely jointed ; the young branches and leaves roughened with appressed 

 scattered hairs ; leaves distant, fleshy, oblong-laneeolate or obovate, acute or 

 acuminate, tapering into a short petiole ; peduncles terminal and in the forks, 

 4-6 times as long as the leaves ; heads white, ovate ; sepals lanceolate-oblong, 

 acute, 3-5-nerved, hairy, 2-3 times as long as the ovate acute bracts; sterile 

 filaments longer than the fertile ones, 5-6-cleft; utricle crowned with a naiTow 

 toothed margin. — South Florida, along the coast. — Stem 2° - 4° long Leaves 

 1' long. 



4. T. Brasiliana, Moquin. Herbaceous, rough-hairy; the young leaves 

 and branchlets hoary ; stem erect, forking ; leaves thin, ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, tapering into a short petiole, longer than the internodcs, rather shorter 

 than the slender peduncles ; heads and flowers as in No. 3 ; utricle crowned 

 with a narrow entire margin. — South Florida, — Stem apparently tall. Loaves 

 2'- 4' long. 



10. PRCELICHIA, Moench. 



Flowers perfect, 3-bracted. Calyx tubular, 5-cleft, indurated and spiny-crested 

 in fruit. Stamens 5, united into a long tube. Sterile filaments entire anthers 



