seglee or plates, dull brown: Oboranches divericately spreading, 
freely rebraneched; twigs slender, green, very flexible, 
horigontel or descending; leaves thickly coriaceous, horizon- 
tal or dereending, tips reenrved, bluish derk green above; 
infrutescence axillery or mostly lateral below the folieze, 
upon green stelks at most 1/2 ineh long; frait globose, 1/2 
ineh in thawte diameter, bard, giaueons | green, leseeded, 
upon 8 more or less jaiey flesh red revgeptacle 1/2 ineh in 
length and nesrly ae much soross: (fhe reeeptscle is eaten 
by birds; or et least Feel & convenience in carrying the 
seed; anquestionsbly the red color serves to attract the 
otherwise tecteles: i. rether ats stactefull fruit). 
Megellenes, April, 1910. — 
12361. Leueobryum sericenm Broth. Forming dense 
soft and deep messes npon a rotten timber lying on the 
ground in woods at 1760 fest; foliage greyieh green; setee 
shining brown. Megellenea, April, 1910. 
126k Lentinus javeniens lev. In dense colonies 
upon the lower side of @ nearly teceyed log lying seross 
a streamlel of woode st 1750 slong the trail leading to 
sepena; stelke write, terete, flexible, short or longer; 
cep funel-shaped, yellowich, flexible, the margins revolute; 
gille very fine, ereomy white; so litary or in groups, the 
individuals ai verve in gize end shape; many emell “deer 
flies sa sy about trese plente which were in an epperent 
heslthy endition. Megellenes, April, 1910. 
12363, Urophyllam pletyphyllum Elm. ne op. Shrab 
in moist gravelly eed) of humid forested oats or gullies 
et 1750 feet on the Sapene side of the trail leading over 
the ridge; stem 1 to 2 inekes thick, 10 feet high, widely 
pranohed from below the middle, terete; wood greenish white, 
very soft, with an extra large pith, odorless and tasteless; 
brenches green, widely rebrenehed; leaves membrenous, 
deseending, much paler green beneath, shellowly convex. 
benesth, tips abruptly reeurved; o1¢€ berk brownish, beneath 
the epidermis green; inirutescence axillery or ta cated, 
pele green. Magellenes, April, 1910. 
12564. Staurogyne phicrriiszoides Elm. ne sp. 
Sueeulent herbs in moist rock eleyey soil of densely wooded 
gulehes elong the treil to Espenea at 1750 feet, south of 
the ridge sumit: steme terete, pale green, single or few 
from the same root eluster, reclining toward the bese, 
speringly branched; leaves soctly torisontel, flat, eub- 
membrenous, very deep dull green above, grayish green end 
venose beneath; £3u inflorescence secendingly eurved, its 
few aerate brenehee widely spreading; rechis greeni¢h 
brown: eoslyx green; eorolle 1/2 inch =x long, tubuler, 
ehite with purplish brown streaks. Megellenes, April, 
1910. 

