624 EUBIACE^E. 



simple stem bearing 2-3-ternately finely dissected leaves, and a small leafy - 

 bracted compound umbel of white Mowers. 



E. blllbosa, Nutt. — Base of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, and north- 

 ward. April. 



Order CAPRIFOLIACEJE. 



VIBURNUM, L. 



V. densifiorum. Stem slender, branching; leaves small, downy be- 

 neath, varying from oblong to broadly ovate, entire, irregularly serrate or 

 slightly 2-3-lobed, acute at each end, or rounded at the base ; cymes downy, 

 small, compact, the base and ramifications involucrate with a whorl of linear 

 bracts. (V. involucratum, Chapm., not of Wall.) — Wooded hillsides, West 

 Florida. April. — Stems 2° -4° high. Leaves Y- 2' long. 



V. nudum, L., var. angUStifolium, Torr. & Gray. Smoother; leaves 

 thinner and narrower, obscurely serrulate or entire. — Margins of swamps, 

 Florida to North Carolina 



Var. serotinum, Ravenel. Smooth, or nearly so, punctate ; leaves 

 oblong-ovate, attenuate above the middle, crenate-serrate, abruptly short- 

 petioled ; cyme long-peduncled, mostly leafy and corymbose, the divisions 

 very slender, flowers very small, the filaments slightly exserted. — Low pine 

 barrens near Darien, Georgia. October and November. 



Order RUBIACE^E. 



GALIUM, L. 



G. Aparine, L. (Cleavers.) Annual ; stems weak, retrorsely hispid ; 

 leaves C-8 in a whorl, lanceolate, hispid on the margins and midrib ; pedun- 

 cles long, 1 -2-flowered ; fruit bristly. — Waste places, sparingly introduced. 



G. pilosum, var. puneticulosum, Gray. (G. puneticulosum, Michx.) 

 Stem, leaves, &c. smooth or nearly so; fruit often much larger. — Dry, rich 

 soil, Florida, and northward. 



G. Virgatum, Nutt. Low (G'-10' high), simple or branching at the 

 base, smooth or hispid ; leaves 4 in a whorl, short (4" or 5"), oblong-lanceo- 

 1-ite, hispid-ciliate ; peduncles axillary, short, bracteolate, 1-flowered; fruit 

 hispid. — Barrens of Tennessee (Dr. Gattinger), and westward. 



RICHARDSONIA, Kunth. Falsi: Ipecac. 



Calyx 4-7 parted, the lobes deciduous. Corolla funnel-shaped, 3-G-lobed. 

 Stamens* 3- 6, exserted. Style :'»- or 4-cleft. Capsule separating into 2-4 

 one-seeded indehixent nutlets. — Hairy branching herbs. Leaves united by 

 bristly stipules. Mowers white, in terminal sessile clusters. 



R. SCabra, St. Hilaire. Annual, hirsute, forking; leaves ovate, acute, 

 the two upper pairs involucre-like; calyx-lobes subulate; nutlets 2-3, 

 oblong. — Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Introduced. 



