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spines few and short. Fruit pyriform 
purple, pulp scarlet acid— see my 
Flora Medica, vol. ii. page £47, and 
Bartram’s travels. 
3. Opuntia sp inalba Raf. Erect, 
articles elliptic, spines fasciculate 
white curved uncial, base bristly. 
Fruit obcordate purple, seeds rugose. 
C. opuntia of Lunan, hurt Jam. on 
the keys of Florida. 
Besides these 3 erect sp. there are 
3 procumbent ones known to me in 
the U. St. my Cactus or opuntia hu- 
mifusa , descr. in Annals Nat sp. 1 15 
and 2 others, which I now add here, 
to complete our Opuntias. Decan- 
dolle had proved this an extensive 
genus already. 
4. Opuntia cespitosa Raf. Cespi- 
tose, procumbent, articles oboval con- 
cave, spinules fasciculate minute ru- 
fous, barbed backwards, surround- 
ing a long central spine. Fruits ag- 
gregate subpedunculate turbinate or 
oblong uncial spinulose, skin thick, 
pulp greenish, seeds. Large lenticular 
in Kentucky and Tennesee. 
5. Opuntia mesacaatha Raf. pro- 
cumbent, articles rounded $ spinules 
fasciculate rufescent, central spine 
long brown. Fruits solitary oval, 
covered with spinulose thick scales. 
From West Kentucky to Louisiana. 
6. Malm Scandens Raf. Pilose 
twining divaricate ramose, leaves 5 
parted, flowers axillary solitary pe- 
aunc, segments of calix broad ovate, 
seeds hirsute. Mentioned by Bar- 
tram not described, cultiv. in his 
garden. Grows from Florida to 
Louisiana, flowers small greenish 
white. 
7. Malope lutea Raf. 1817. M* 
malacoides of Walter, Elliot, Pursh, 
Nuttall! Malva Americana Wild 
and Muhl? Leaves ovate obtuse, 
dentate, smooth, nerves pubescent 
beneath, stipules lanceolate hairy, 
peduncles solitary axillary calix hairy 
petals yellow, fruit hispid globose 
depressed seeds compressed. An- 
nual from Virginia to Florida. The 
M. malacoides of Europe which I 
have seen is quite different by leaves 
elliptical crenate base cordate, large 
purple flowers, fruit smooth spheri- 
cal, seeds round. 
8. Sabbatia brevifolia Raf. Stem 
dichotomous filiform, leaves short 
subulate acute, flowers terminal 
white, calix shorter than corolla se- 
taceous, segments of corolla obovate. 
Near to S. brachiata and Stellaris. 
9. Bras sica Jioridana Raf. Stem 
simple erect terete, leaves petiolate 
oblong acute serrate, flowers panicu- 
late. 
10. Lobelia microphylla Raf. Stem 
simple smooth, leaves minute remote 
ovate sessile dentate, flowers termi- 
nal few and small. Florida and 
Louisiana. 
11. Lobelia nudicaulis Raf. Ra- 
dical leaves oblong or cuneate smooth 
stem angular naked with some re- 
mote setaceous scales, flowers ter- 
minal few remote. This is perhaps 
the L . pallida of Elliot but notours 
of Muhlenberg. 
12. Helonias striata Raf. Scape 
angular with setaceous scales, radi- 
cal leaves slender striated longer 
than scape, raceme oblong lax, bracts 
membranaceous subulate short acute, 
sepals obovate acute. 
13. Commelina longifolia Raf. 
Stem erect smooth, leaves divaricate 
very long linear lanceolate acute, 
spatha cordate plicate ciliate triflore 
flowers large. 
14. (Enothera cuneifolia R. Stem 
ramose divaricate, leaves cuneate en- 
tire, branches unifiore, flowers large. 
15. ClitoriaparvijloraB, . twining 
folioles elliptical obtuse base subcar- 
date smooth, flowers solitary small* 
16. Erigeron lyratum R. Radical 
leaves lyrate cuneate, scabrous with 
large teeth, stem striate villose, catt- 
linar leaves adpressed cuneate re- 
motely serrate, flowers corymbose 
small. '•) 
17. LeptopodafloridamTl<>&tem 
angular unifiore, radical leaves cu- 
neate remote serrate acute smooth, 
caulinar leaves setaceous adpressed 
peduncles thicker above, rays yel- 
low and short. 
