34 LEAFLETS. 
I shall first give account of the few species that are marked 
by a narrow and spreading foliage. In this one particular they 
recall P, Hartwrightii, It has this same characteristic; but it 
has two other important peculiarities which these fail to exhibit. 
I shall indicate them later. 
P. REMOTA. Stem rather slender, 1 to 2 feet long, decum- 
bent, the nodes enlarged, internodes 1 to 2 inches long, glab- 
rous, many-angled; leaves lanceolate, acute, about 6 inches 
long, thinnish, without obvious petiole and spreading away from 
the stem, glabrous above, except as to the midvein and veinlets, 
these all beset by a single series of short hair-points, lower face 
puncticulate, the broad midvein appressed-setose and the veinlets 
very minutely so; margin serrulate by appressed short hairs ; 
ocrex sparsely strigose, the hairs long, closely appressed; spikes 
linear, their peduncles sparsely hispidulous; bracts with scat- 
tered hairs on the back, not ciliate. 
Westbrook, Maine, July, 1897, P. L. Richter, the type in 
U. S. Herb. Information as to habitat, always valuable, the 
collectors seldom give, much to the regret of those who study 
plants. I have a suspicion that this plant is riparian, or else of 
swampy land. 
P. Nov# Anetim. Apparently upright though slender, the 
internodes 2 to 4 inches long, strongly striate-angled, glabrous ; 
leaves ascending rather than widely spreading, broadly lanceo- 
late, 7 or 8 inches long, including the petiole (this 1 inch or 
more), thin, glabrous but puncticulate, the midvein beset with 
an appressed murication especially beneath, the whole margin 
sharply serrulate-scabrous with well developed and closely set 
but short setiform hairs; spike large, linear, more than 3 inches 
long, its peduncle glandular-hispidulous ; bracts small, nearly 
or quite glabrous, or perhaps sometimes quite strigose-hairy. 
South Hadley, Massachusetts, A. C. Cook, 1887, the type in 
U. S. Herb., where also exist some mere fragments by Oakes 
from Wenham Pond in the same State, which may or may not 
belong here. Only a floral leaf is shown in the fragments, and 
the veins of these develop something more like a hairiness. 
