TRADESCANTIA FLORIDANA S. Vats.
Tradescall i a .Florid art a S.Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 381. 1882.
Perennial by creeping stems, slender, nearly glabrous, bright green. Stems procumbent, more or less matted, flaccid, 1-3 dm. long, rooting at the lower nodes ; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1-2 cm. long, thinnish, acute, ciliolate ; sheaths funnelform, min utely roughened, fringed with long white cilia ; cymes solitary or 2 together, terminal, their peduncles .5-1.5 cm. long, subtended by ovate or ovate-lanceolate bracts; pedicels filiform, 2-6 mm.
long, villous and somewhat glandular ; sepals ovate, about 2-3 mm. long, acutish, purple, pubescent ; petals white ; filaments glabrous ; anther-cells contiguous ; capsules oval, nearly 2 innl. long, glabrous.
Damp shady places, peninsular Florida : Miss Reynolds ; Mer ritt's Island, A. Fl. Curtiss, 2995 (two collections under the one number); Sumpter county, J. D. Smith ; Indian River, W. M.
Canby.