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NEW SYLVA 
Smooth erect, leaves sessile obovate or round- 
ed, glaucous cartilaginous retuse, floral connate 
cycloidal ; flowers in whorls of 4 peduncles op- 
posite biflore, berries oblong black — on the 
lime rocks of Kentucky and Illinois, rare, seen 
only in 3 localities, one at a Cave on the Elk- 
horn creek, 3 or 4 feet high, branches of a pale 
color. It blossoms in April, so early that I al- 
ways missed to see the full bloom : near to C* 
Jlavum but different. 
517. L . elliptica Raf. Autikon. Climbing 
smooth, leaves all connate elliptic obtuse glau- 
cous beneath subundulate not reticulate, flora! 
connate in a single ellipse ; flowers subsessile 
small purple, base gibbose — in the Apalachian 
Mts. of Virginia and Carolina, seen alive in 
gardens There are two varieties, 1 Macro- 
phyla with long leaves 6 inches by 3, the sec- 
ond Minor small leaves 2 inches by one. Does 
the doubtful undescribed C . rubrum of fl. 
Louis. 248 belong here ? 
518. L. ovata Raf. Autikon. Climbing 
smooth, leaves all sessile ovate acute ; flowers 
in axillary pedicelate corymbs, corols incarnate 
tube slender — on the same Mts. Apalaches rare, 
only met once, leaves small, flowers middle 
size. 
219. L. reticulata Raf. Autikon. Erect 
smooth, branches angular, leaves all connate 
cycloidal neither acute nor retuse, beneath 
white and reticulate ; flowers axillary and ter- 
minal berries red — shady hills of Ohio and Mts. 
Wasioto of East Kentucky, very small shrub 
only 2 or 3 feet high, leaves ample, the lower 
nearly elliptical, flowers not seen, near C. gra - 
tam , but branches and leaves different. 
520. L. eriensis Raf. Autikon. Erect, 
