ERIOCAULONACE^E. 



J. militaris, Bigel. Stout (2°-4° high), 1-leavcd ; heads panicled, 5- 

 10-flowered ; sepals lanceolate, acute, as long as the ovate, taper-beaked, 1- 

 celled capsule; stamens G; seeds globose-ovate, abruptly pointed. — In water, 

 Alabama, and northward. 



J. brachycarpus, Engelm. Stem erect (l°-2° high), mostly 2 leaved, 

 heads 2-10, globular, closely many -flowered, pale green; sepals linear-subu- 

 late, unequal, the outer ones longer ; capsule ovoid, acute, 1-celled, shorter 

 than the sepals; style very short. — South Carolina [Beyrich), mountains of 

 Georgia?, and northward. 



J. asper, Engelm. Rigid, erect (2° -3° high); leaves terete; panicle 

 erect; heads 2-G-flowered; sepals ovate-lanceolate, strongly nerved, very 

 acute, the inner ones longer, and barely shorter than the beak-pointed cap- 

 sule; seeds oblong, finely ribbed. — Swamps, Henderson County, North 

 Carolina (Canby), and northward. 



Order COMMELYNACE^E. 



TRADESCANTIA, L. 



T. Floridana, Watson. Stem (4' -8' long) tender, ascending from a 

 creeping base, branching; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, ciliate at 

 the base (f or less long), the floral ones bract-like ; flowers very small (2"- 

 3" wide), terminal, shorter than their pedicels; sepals pubescent. — Coast 

 of East Florida (Curtiss). 



Order XYRIDACE^. 

 XYRIS, L. 



X. setacea, n. sp. Scape setaceous (1° high) like the terete leaves, 

 these ?/- 5' long; spikes ovoid (3" long) ; lateral sepals included, comment 

 at the tips, the narrowly winged keel serrulate above the middle. — Margins 

 of ponds near Mobile (Mohr). 



Order ERIOCAULONACE^E. 



ERIOCAULON, L. 



E. septangulare, Withering. Leaves short (l'-2' long), subulate- 

 linear, pellucid; scape weak and slender; head small, hemispherical, densely 



white-boarded ; scale- of the involucre rounded ; bracts spatulate. E. pellu- 

 cidum, Miclur.) — Wet pine barrens, Southern .Mississippi {Prof, llihjard). 



