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Flowering from May to September, and soon ripening fruit. 
Corolla white, within with longitudinal pink veins on the posterior 
side, 
Pennell (Georgia)—4088. (Florida) —9658. (Louisiana)—4283. 
la. Mecardonia acuminata peninsularis Pennell, var. nov. 
Plants much branched from the base, diffusely spreading and 
ascending. Main. stem-leaves oblanceolate, long-cuneate at base, 
1.3-2 em. long. Outer sepals 5-6 mm. long. Corolla fe 8 mm. 
long. 
Type, in hammocks and pine-lands, Black Point, below Cutler, 
Florida, collected in fruit and late flower, November 13, 1903, J. 
K. Small & J. J. Carter 824, in Herb. New York Botanical Gar- 
den; isotype in Herb. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 
Moist places, pine-land, hammocks and everglades, southern 
Florida. 
Pennell (Florida)—9542. 
1b. Mecardonia acuminata brevifolia Pennell, var. nov. 
Plants apparently laxly ascending, slightly branched, 14 dm. 
tall. Main stem-leaves ovate, cuneate at base, 1-1.7 cm. long. 
Outer sepals 5-6 mm. long. Corolla 7-8 mm. long. 
Type, Gulfport, Mississippi, collected in flower September 8, 1900, 
F. E. Lloyd & 8. M. Tracy 94; in Herb. New York Botanical Gar- 
den. 
Moist places in longleaf pine-land, southern ane and northern 
Florida to southern Texas. 
2. Mecardonia procumbens (Mill.) Small 
Erinus gh ne id seat Gard. Dict. ed. VIII. 6 176: ..* 
a e not known to exist, but description appears to be 
of the plant here Lae il d. Houston collected in tropical America. 
Mecardonia procumbens (Mill.) Small, Fl. 8S. E. Un. St. 1065, 1338. 1903. 
Moist soil, loam or sand, meadows and edges of hammocks, sub- 
tropical Florida. A wide-spread weed of lowland Tropical America, 
perhaps introduced into our flora. 
Flowering and fruiting probably throughout the year. Corolla 
externally greenish-yellow, within on the lobes lemon-yellow, and 
with more or less evident longitudinal dark veins on the posterior 
side. 
Pennell (Florida) —9549. 
__* Reported as “ Monniera chamaedryoides peduncularis”’ by Mohr, Contrib. 
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