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iv. 513 ; Griseb. PI. W. Ind. 342. P. nervosa, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 403. P. lanceolata, 

 Nutt. in Am. Jour. Sci. v. 290, ferruginous-pubescent form, in fruit, and glabrous form also 

 mentioned ; DC. 1. e. 513. P. chimarrhoides, & P. oligotrkha, DC. 1. c. 514, glabrous or nearly 

 glabrous forms. P. rufcscens, HBK. ? Griseb. 1. 1-,, the ferruginous-pubescent form. — Woods 

 of E. and S. Florida along the coast, first coll. by ijkhaux and Ware. (W. Ind., Mex.?) 

 P. tenuifolia, Swabtz. Shrub 1 to 4 feet high, with more simple and erect partly herba- 

 ceous flowering branches, glabrous or commonly with a very minute pruinose puberulence, 

 no ferruginous hairiness : stipules distinct, ovate, often acute, sometimes setaeeously-acumi- 

 nate, caducous: leaves oblong-lanceolate or broader (3 to 6 inches long), acuminate at both 

 ends : cyme either short-peduncled or sessile, compactly many-flowered : flowers nearly of the 

 preceding : drupes not seen in the Florida plant, according to Swartz "oblong," (ellipsoidal, 

 Grisebach,) in Cuban specimens globose. — Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 402 (ex char.) ; Griseb. 1. c. 341. 

 P. lanceolata, in distrib. coll. Rugel, in part, & coll. Curtiss ; also Chapm. Fl. 1. c. in part ; 

 Griseb. Cat. Cub. 135, not Nutt. (Near P. pubescens, Swartz, but has different stipules.) 

 — Rich woods, S. Florida ; Tampa and Manatee River, Leavenworth, Rugel, Indian River, 

 Cwtiss. (W. Ind.) 



17. STRtTMPFIA, Jacq. (O. G. Strumpf, who edited the fourth edition 

 of Linn. Genera Plantarum.) — Stirp. Amer. 218; Lam. 111. t. 731; A. Eich. 

 Mem. Rub. t. 9 ; Benth. & Plook. Gen. ii. 117. — Single species. 



S. maritima, Jacq. Low shrub, much branched, erect, exceedingly leafy : branches where 

 the leaves have fallen annulate-roughened by the squarrose remains of the stipules, which 

 closely approximate : leaves more commonly in threes, firm-coriaceous and rigid, linear, with 

 strongly revolute margins, glabrous or puberulent, at length shining, inch or less long, 

 mostly exceeding the flower-clusters: corolla white: fruit white. — Desc. Fl. Ant. t. 208; 

 DC. Prodr. iv. 470; Chapm. Fl. 178; Griseb. 1. c. 336. Tournefortia, &c, Plum. Amer. ed. 

 Burm. t. 251, f. 1. — Rocks on the sea-shore, Keys of Florida. (W. Ind.) 



18. ERNODEA, Swartz. ( 'EpvwSrjs, sprouting or branching.) — Prodr. 29, 

 & Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 223, t. 4. Knoxia, P. Browne, Jam. 140. Thymelea, Sloan e, 

 Hist. Jam. t. 169. — Single species. 



E. littoralis, Swaktz, 1. c. Procumbent, suffruticose, glabrous : leaves fleshy-coriaceous, 

 lanceolate, acute, inch or less long, crowded on the branchlets, obscurely nervose-veined : 

 stipules short-vaginate, produced between the leaf-bases into cuspidate points : corolla yel- 

 lowish, half-inch or less long : drupe yellow, pisiform, crowned by the conspicuous calyx- 

 lobes. — A. Rich. Mem. Rub. t. 5, f . 2 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 30 ; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 347. — 

 Shores of S. Florida. (W. Ind.) 



19. MITCHELLA, L. Partridge-berry. — (Dr. John Mitchell of Vir- 

 ginia, earliest N. American botanical author, founder of several new genera in 

 1741.) — Gen. ed. 5, 49 ; Lam. 111. t. 63. Charncedaphne, Mitch. — Of a single 

 species, for that of Japan seems not different. 



M. repens, D Small creeping evergreen, glabrous or nearly so : leaves deep green, ovate or 

 subcordate, half-inch to near an inch in length, sleuder-petioled : stipules triangular-subulate, 

 minute : peduncle short, terminal : corollas white or tinged with rose outside ; tube half- 

 inch long, surpassing the oblong lobes; two-eyed "berry" rather dry and tasteless, bright 

 red, sometimes white. — Spec. i. Ill {Lonicera, &c, Gronov. ; Syringa baccifera, &c, Pink. 

 Amalth. t. 444, Catesb. Car. t. 20) ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 979 ; Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. t 95, f. 1 ; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 34; Gray, Struct. Bot. ed. 6, fig. 467^-69. it. undulata, Sieb. & Zucc; 

 Miquel, Prolus. Jap. 275. — Woods, especially under Coniferae, Nova Scotia and Canada to 

 Florida and Texas. (Mex., Japan.) 



20. KELLOG-G-IA, Torr. (Dr. Albert Kellogg, of California.) — Wilkes, 

 S. Pacif. Ex. Exped. xvii. 332 (1874), t. 6 (1862) ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 137 ; 



