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Leaves stiff, straight or nearly 
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Ion inflated, eye a bulb-like swelling at the 
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Basal “leaves with long pliable whip-like tips: corolla 
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lanceolate, the bracts nar 8. T. Balbisiana. 
Basal us: with the tips no tentacle-like, ascend- 
ing: stem-leaves with ere ips: spi ikes linear- 
liptic, p bracts broa d. 9. T. polystachya. 
Basal leaves with short rigid tips: corolla lavender: 
flower-stem very short, protruding from the 
rece of basal leaves only in fru iei if at all. 10. T. circinata. 
II. UrRicUL 
Tall plant with numerous long. flat or Ho. due widely 
recurving, basal leaves: flower-stem many-flowered. 11. T. utriculata. 
III. ALOIFOLIAE 
non In with the few short ee leaves, erect or nearly 
and spirally twisted: flower-stem few-flow ered. 12. T. diis 
1. T. tenuifolia L. Plant green, dark-red, or purple-red, 1-3 dm. tall, the 
stems and leaves often in dense clusters: leaves quill-like, often sae the 
: spikes wered: petals violet 
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[T. Bartramit El. T. oe LeCont te] 
—Hammocks and swamps, Coastal Plain, 
Fla. and Ga.—(W. I., C. A., S rk 
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mh mcer quill-like tips, the upper 
ones often | red: spikes with the bracts red- 
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capsule » stout, about 3 em. long. [T. angus- 
tifolia (Chapm. F1.) ?.]—Hammocks, often along streams and swamps, pen. Fla. 
3. T. myriophylla Small. cet gray and reddis uie EE 1-3 dm. tall 
the stems few or d js ogethe son leaves erect o rur with the very 
slender tips straight o m Jea of the flower- a with elongate almost 
filiform but stiff quill- like tips, t e ones often pups -pink: spikes with 
the bracts reddish- ame ds ed: eu violet, about 4 em. long: eapsule rather 
slender about 2.5 em. long.—Hammocks, often in the hilly parts, pen. Fla. 
ds cea (R. & P.) Poir. Plant gray-green, 1.5-3.5 Ma tal, the stems 
usually several together: basal leaves mostly as ne of the outer ones 
recurved-spreading ; leaves of ae eyed stem with e ne -subulate, a -like 
strictly erect or appressed tips, the upper ones Ae red-tinged: spikes con 
iur the n branches short, os the whole inflorescence contracted int o 
nal m less elongate cluster: bracts n. or red-tinged: petals violet, 
Weng 3 Hee ee capsule stoutish, 2.5-3 cm. long—Hammocks, pen. Fla.— 
(W. I., C. A., S. A.) 
