pubescence, and sprinkled with spreading hirsute hairs. Leaves about an
inch long, pale, the margins and midrib ciliolate-scabrous. Corolla 3-4 lines
long, white or pale red, sprinkled with minute hairs under a lens. Anthers
linear-oblong. Capsule (usually but one in each axil) about 2 lines long,
much longer than the calyx-teeth.
3. D. tricocca: perennial, much branched, depressed; stems somewhat
hairy: leaves linear, with revolute margins; bristles of the stipules scarcely
as long as the fruit; flowers glomerate in the upper axils; corolla scarcely
exceeding the strongly hispid teeth of the calyx (often 3-lobed); the stamens
about the length of the lobes ; stigma small, capitate ; fruit obovate-globose,
at first hispid, scarcely longer than the (4, rarely 5!) conspicuous calyx-
teeth, separating into 3 chartaceous carpels.
Texas, Drummond!—Plant resembling a small state of D. teres, 3-4
inches high, apparently perennial. Leaves smooth above ; the margins and
midrib beneath somewhat hairy or hispid, at least when young. Flowers
and fruit much smaller than in the preceding ; the latter scarcely half the
size, and apparently always tricoccous, very hispid when young, as well as
the lanceolate teeth of the calyx, with stout bristles ; but the mature fruit is
often nearly or quite glabrous ; the carpels roundish-obovate, flattened.—Our
specimens do not exhibit the corolla in good condition: but all the flowers
which we have examined present a 3-lobed corolla, 3 stamens, and a tricar-
pellary ovary, while the teeth of the calyx are 4, or very rarely 5, in number.
Probably these characters are not constant, but the species is very different
from any with which we are acquainted.
Subtribe 2. P utoriea:, DC.—Flowers distinct. Fruit somewhat fleshy
or drupaceous, seldom bipartible.
5. ERNODEA. Swartz, prodr. p. 29, Sffl. Ind. Occ. p. 223, t. 4 ; Geertn.
Jr. 1.196, ƒ. 6 ; A . Rich. mem. 1. c. t. 15, ƒ. 2 ; DC. prodr. 4. p . 576.
Calyx-tube ovate ; the lobes of the 4-6 parted limb oblong-linear, acute,
pubescent. Corolla hypocrateriform, with a somewhat quadrangular tube;
the lobes 4-6, lanceolate, revolute, valvate in aestivation. Filaments inserted
into the upper part of the tube: anthers linear, exserted. Style filiform,
longer than the stamens : stigma emarginate. Fruit drupaceous,
obovate or roundish, 2-celled, crowned with the long erect segments of the
calyx, bipartible when mature; the nuclei 1-seeded, cartilaginous, indehis-
cent. Seeds peltate, flat and furrowed on the face. Embryo straight:
cotyledons oval.—A suffruleseent and decumbent glabrous (West Indian)
plan t; with sessile somewhat rigid lanceolate leaves. Stipules sheathing,
many-parted. Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile, yellowish. Fruit yellow.
E . littoralis (Swartz, 1. c.)—Knoxia, P . Browne, Jam. p. 140. no. 1. Thy-
melea, Sloane, hist. Jam. t. 169.
Key West, Mr. Blodgett! Southern Florida, Dr. Hassler!—Stem 6-10
inches long, branching from the base, stout and rigid; the branches quadrangular.
Leaves mostly crowded towards the extremity of short branches,
about an inch long, somewhat coriaceous or fleshy, very acute and mucronate,
3-nerved. Flowers small. Fruit with a thin and rather dry pulp, separable
when ripe into 2 plano-convex portions, crowned with the long lanceolate
foliaceous calyx-teeth.
Subtribe 3. Cephalantheas, DC.—Flowers and fruit sessile and densely
aggregated on a globose receptacle. Fruit dry, 2-4-partible.
6. CEPHALANTHUS. L in n .; Lam. ill. t. 59 ; Geertn.fr. t. 86.
Calyx-tube obpyramidal; the limb 4-toothed. Corolla tubular, slender;
the lobes of the 4-cleft limb erect, imbricate in aestivation. Stamens 4,
scarcely exserted. Style filiform, much exserted : stigma capitate. Fruit
inversely pyramidal, coriaceous, 2-4-celled, separating from the base to the
summitinto 2-4 closed one-seeded portions. Seeds pendulous, conformed to
the cell, crowned with a kind of corky arillus. Embryo straight, in the
axis of somewhat cartilaginous albumen: cotyledons oblong, foliaceous:
radicle slender.—Shrubs (American); with oval or lanceolate (opposite or
ternate) leaves. Stipules short, distinct or somewhat united. Flowers
densely aggregated in a globose head (the receptacle hairy): the peduncles
terminal and from the upper axils. Corolla white.—Button-Bush. Pond-
Dogwood.
If. C. occidentalis (Linn.): mostly glabrous; leaves opposite and ternate,
ovate or oblong-oval, acuminate, distinctly petioled, usually glabrous; peduncles
longer than the heads, usually ternate at the extremity of the
branches.—Michx. ! fl. X. p. 87 ; “Duham. arb. t. 54, Schkuhr. handb. t.
21, 8ft. 5. ^*6./r.” ; Pursh.fi. 1. p . 114; Ell. sJc. 1. p . 186 ; Torr.! fl. 1. p.
164 ; Bart. fl. Amer. Sept. 3. t. 91; Darlingt.fi. Cest. p. 98 ; DC. prodr. 4.
p . 538. ' v .
/?. younger branches and lower surface of the leaves pubescent.
Margin of swamps and wet thickets, Canada ! and Northern States ! to
Georgia ! Arkansas! and Texas ! (the northern plant usually glabrous; the
southern more or less pubescent.) July-Aug.—Shrub 3-10 feet high,
branched, with light spongy wood, and smooth bark. Leaves 3-5 inches
long, more frequently opposite than ternate, feather-veined. Heads an inch
in diameter, on peduncles about 2 inches long. Calyx-tube produced above
the ovary; the teeth obtuse, persistent. Corolla nearly half an inch long ■
the limb somewhat funnel-form; the lobes obtuse.
T ribe II. COFFEEiE. DC.
Fruit drupaceous, containing 2 one-seeded bony or crustaceous
nucules; which are flattish or grooved on the inner side, and often
marked with a furrow on the outer. Albumen horny or somewhat
cartilaginous. .Estivation of the corolla usually valvate.—Trees or
shrubs. Stipules 2 between the petioles on each side, either distinct
or combined. Flowers distinct, or in capitate involucrate fascicles.
7. CHIOCOCCA. P. Browne, Jam. p. 174; Lin n .; Lam. ill. t. 480 ;
Geertn.fr. t. 26 ; A . Rich, mem. 1. c. p. 106; DC. prodr. 4. p . 482.
Calyx-tube ovate ; the limb acutely 5-toothed. Corolla campanulate-in-
fundibuliform, 5-lobed ; the lobes spreading. Stamens 5: filaments inserted
into the base of the corolla, and scarcely cohering with it, somewhat
monadelphous, pubescent: anthers linear, included. Style filiform, some