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red berries, — While R. or P. lev is has stem 
terete, leaves not repand marginate of red, and 
flowers redish also with obovate sepals. 
751. Plumbago floridana Raf. (Collins 
herb) stem slender virgate angular, smooth, 
leaves minute ovate acute, spike slender base 
squamose denudate, flowers terminal few, bracts 
ovate reflexed, calix with stipitate glands.— 
This G. was not known to be N. American, the 
specimen of Collins was collected by Ware in 
East Elorida, it is pedal, with small leaves and 
flowers less than one inch long. 
752. Melotiiria nigra Raf, 1820, An, nat. 
112, M. pendula E. and most of our Authors, 
stem, filiform angular trailing, leaves roughish 
subreniform 5lobed remotely denticulate, petiols 
filiform elongate, flowers polygamous and mo- 
noical, peduncles uniflore, in the male multifl. 
berries globular smooth, pisiform black, — From 
Carolina to Kentucky, trailing 3 to 10 feet, 
leaves and flowers small, these yellow. It has 
several var. see my Monographs ; but all are 
distinct from the M. pendula of Antilles, Lin- 
neus said that sp. grew from Canada to Jama- 
ica, but I never found it in the Northern States, 
others have and ascribe to it a red berry, is it 
another sp. or the next ? In this the berries are 
shining black scarcely larger than a pea. 
753. Melotiiria repanda Raf. Stem sub 
cate twining, leaves thick roughish cordate* 5an- 
gular subtrilobe, repand sinuate, teeth obtuse 
inucronate, peduncles uniflore, berries oblong 
oliveform smooth. — This is most likely the sp* 
of Linneus and many botanists, although L. as- 
cribes an oliveform tuberculate berry to his, 
petiols shorter than leaves and peduncles, I can- 
not say if the berries are black or red, my spe- 
