ASARUM CALLIFOLIUM.
Perennial, deep green, nearly glabrous. Leaves tufted, long-pe tioled, the blades ovate, 5-9 cm. long, obtuse or sometimes acutish, finely undulate or crenulate, rarely mottled, deeply cordate at the base ; petioles 2-3 times longer than the blades, sparingly pubes cent ; bracts reniform, ciliate ; pedicels as long as the calyx, or much shorter ; calyx urn-shaped, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, dark green without, dark purple within, the segments broadly ovate or broader than high, the throat slightly contracted ; stigmas 2-cleft , capsule not seen.
In shady woods, Florida. (Chapman.) This is probably the Asantin arifoliiim of Dr. Chapman's Flora, but not the plant of Michaux, specimens of which I have never seen from further south than Georgia. It differs from Asanim
arifolium in both foliage and infloresence. The leaf-blades are simply ovate, and lack the halberd-shape so characteristic of those of the Michauxian plant, and the margin instead of being entire is finely undulate or crenulate. The pedicels arc always short, never elongating like those of A. arifolium, while the perianths of the two species are entirely dissimilar in shape ; that of AS(1171111 callifolzum being larger, much shorter in proportion to the length and with a rounder base.