THE GENUS WAREA.
I have always been impressed with the remarkably inconsistent descriptions that have been applied to the plant we have known as Wezrea amp/ex/fa/it'. The discovery, by Mr. Nash, of a third species of Warea in western Florida renewed my interest in the group and led me to investigate it. The facts seem to be as fol lows: In 1822 Nuttall described Stanleya ? amplesifolia,* found ing the species on a specimen from eastern Florida. This plant had ampiexicaul leaves. In 1834 Nuttall founded the genus * Am. Journ. Sci. 5 : 297.
Warea,* making the type a Warca amplexifolia founded on a plant from western Florida. This plant had sessile leaves, according to the author and his plate. Nuttall was not as shrewd as usual,
and failing to see that his Warea amplexifolia was different from Stankya amplexifolia, combined the original description of Stanlcya amplexifolia with that of !Farm aVlexifolia; this blunder has been followed to the present day and consequently the ambigu ous descriptions.
The plant from eastern Florida has been represented in our herbaria by good and ample specimens while only a few fragments of the west Florida plant seem to be extant, but now that we are furnished with excellent material the specific lines appear very distinct. I append a synopsis of the genus.