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The following examples are noted: Florida: Argyle, A. II. Curtiss, No. 

 5932 ; Lake City, P. II. Rolfs, No 370 ; Liberty County, A. II. Curtiss, Aug. 

 1894. Alabama: Flomaton, Biltmore Herbarium, Aug. 15, 1899. 



Marshallia graminifolia lacinarioides (Small) Plate XI. 



Marshallia lacinarioides Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 25 : 482, 1898. 



Differing from typical M. graminifolia by the erect basal leaves 

 (which are from i-2 dm long, i-i.5 cm broad and prominently 3- 

 nerved), the branched and very leafy stems and small heads. 



Same range as the species. 



The following specimens are noted : North Carolina : Newberne, Croom. 

 South Carolina : Society Hill, M. A-. Curtis. Georgia : Macon, Croom. 

 Louisiana : Hale, no locality. 



Marshallia obovata (Walt.) Plate V. 



Athanasia obovata Walt. , Fl. Car. 201, 1788. 

 Persoonia lanceolata Michx., Flora Bor. -Am. 2:105, 1803. 

 Trattenikia lanceolata Pers. ; Syn. PI. 2:403, 1807. 

 Marshallia lanceolata Pursh, Flora Am. Sept. 519, 1814 ; Chapman, 

 Flora S. U. S. ed. 1:241, i860; Gray, Syn. Flora, ed. 2 : 303, 1886. 



In describing his Athanasia obovata Walter was very brief, but 

 the writers have no hesitancy in using his name to represent the 

 species here described. 



A perennial herb i.5-3 dm tall, with simple striate stem pubescent 

 near the summit, leafy near the base, naked above : radical leaves 

 obovate, i-4 cm long with the petiole ; stem leaves lanceolate or 

 oblanceolate, 5cm_ I dm long including the petiole, 3 mm -i cm wide, 

 entire, glabrous, obtuse at the apex, or occasionally acutish, 

 narrowed at or below the middle of the blade and prolonged into 

 a margined and sheathing petiole : involucre 5 mm -i cm high, th e 

 scales 2-2. 5 mm wide : florets io-i3 mm long, pubescent, with shal- 

 low throat : pappus scales lacerate, i.5-2 mm long : achenes ribbed, 

 hairy : chaff of the receptacle spathulate. 



Dry woods, North Carolina to Florida and Alabama. 



The following specimens are cited: North Carolina: Bladen county, Bilt- 

 more Herbarium, No. 1258. South Carolina: Aiken, Wm. M. Canby, May, 

 1869 ; Gerald McCarthy, October, 1888 ; Aiken, H. IV. Kavenel. Alabama: 

 Lee county, Earle 6° Baker, April 24, 1897; Cherokee, C. Mohr, May 16, 

 1881. Florida: Chapman. 



