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Habitat — In marshy soil, near New Orleans and Brashear City. 

 The general appearance of this variety is strikingly different from 

 that of the L. nodiflora, in which it is probably included. The L. 

 nodiflora has broad lanceolate leaves, from one to two inches long; 

 the leaves of this variety are spatnlate lanceolate and narrow. 

 In the L. nodiflora the peduncles are on erect leafy branches, which 

 might be taken for stems, and they are axillary on their branches; 

 in the new variety, they are also axillary, but rise directly from the 

 creeping stem, which lias no branches. The L. nodiflora described 

 in Chapman's Southern Flora is in part of the first variety, and the 

 L. lanceolata of Gray's Manual is that of the new variety I named 

 L. microphylla, which seems to me far preferable, as the nodiflora 

 only has lanceolate leaves, but the microphylla has not. 



34. AspUnium cbeneum — Ait. var. A. — Bacculum Rubrum. — Stipe 

 and rachis purplish brown, glossy, tall, one to two feet high. Fronds 

 linear, lanceolate, accuminate, pinnate. x Pinmc numerous, sessile 

 auricled oh both sides of the base, coarsely serate, the pinme below 

 the middle gradually decreasing in length. Fruit-dots elongated, 

 from twenty to thirty on each pinna. Pinnae distant. 



Habitat — -Near Baton Rouge, on the margin of cultivated fields, 

 overgrown with trees and bushes. It is also found on the edge of 

 the cane brakes. 



