LIMONIUM NASIIII.
Perennial by branching rootstocks, glabrous. Leaves basal, the blades oblong or elliptic, sometimes varying to narrowly obovate, 4-10 cm. long, rounded or notched at the apex, occasion ally mucronate, narrowed into petioles which are shorter than the blades or longer ; scapes erect, 3-7 dm. tall, furnished with scale like bracts, widely branching above, the tips of the spreading branches recurved ; bracts subtending the flowers oval, about 4 mm. long, obtuse ; calyx 6-7 mm. long, the tube sparingly pubescent with soft hairs at the base only, the 5 segments tri angular, slightly acuminate, more than 1 mm. long; corolla deep blue.
In salt marshes, Florida. Summer and fall.
Specimens of a beautiful and previously undescribed species of have been in our herbaria for some years ; they are from northern and eastern Florida and represent a species of more slender and more graceful habit than that of Limonizim Ca,olini a 1z1111.
The following synopsis and comparison of the diagnostic char acters of Linzonium Naskii and L. Carolinianum will serve to make clear the difference between the two species : Naskii. Branches of the panicle spreading, the tips recurved ; bracts subtending the flowers oval ; calyx-tube spar ingly pubescent at the base ; calyx-segments triangular, slightly acuminate.
Limon/um Carolinzamiin. Branches of the panicle ascending, the tips curved upward ; bracts subtending the flowers subor bicular ; calyx-tube bristly-pubescent ; calyx-segments ovate.
The species has been collected as follows : Florida: Chapman ; St. Marks, Aug. 1843, Rugel ; Titusville, Brevard County, July 31,1895, Nash. no. 2305.