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baa&j a* long: as trie fertile one?, f Acliyranthcs repens, Ell) — Along roads and 

 places much trodden. Florida to South Carolina. June" -Oct \ — Steins G' - 

 12' long. Leaves 1' long. 



9. TELANTHERA, B. Brown. 



Flowers perfect, 3-bracted. Sepals ">, erect. Stamens 5, united into a tube 

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

 anthers 1-celled, oblong. Style short: stigma capitate. Utricle indehiscent, 

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

 shrnbs, with opposite leaves. Flowers capitate. 



* Calyx sessile, the 3 exterior sepals longer : heeids sessile or nearly so. 



1. T. polygonoides, Moquin. Stem erect or prostrate, pubescent; 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-nervcd, woolly at the base ; sterile filaments as long as the fertile ones, 

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



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

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

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

 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. 



* * Calyx raised on a short b-angUd pedicel : the se/>als nearly equal, cylindrical, 

 hairy : heads lony-pednncled . 



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

 remotely jointed ; the young branches and leaves roughened with appressed 

 scattered hairs ; leaves distant, fleshy, oblong-lanceolate 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-G-cleft; utricle crowned with a narrow 

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

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

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

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

 2'- 4' long. 



10. ERCELICHIA, Mceneh. 



Flowers perfect, 3-bracted. Calyx tubular, 5-cleft, indurated and ^piny-crcst^d 

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



