766 POLYGALACEAE 
--Flowers axillary to leaf-like bracts: perennial plants with 
slender rootstocks. 2. TRICLISPERMA. 
Flowers in terminal D e racemes: annual plants, or 
perennials with tapr 
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MEE less th a E the length of the keel: aril equi- 
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Wings equalling the keel or exceeding it: aril 2-lobed. 4. POLYGALA. 
Sepals and petals decurrent on the pedicel: pedicels 
winged : flowers yellow or orange, or if white then 
cymose panicles 
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. PILOSTAXIS. 
1. ASEMBIA Raf. Annual or Pb herbs, or shrubs. Leaves often 
alternate: blades broad or narrow. Raceme narrow, spike-like. Sepals per- 
gined. Seeds pubescent, the aril scarcely lobed.—About 20 species, mostly 
North Ameriean.—Spr.-fall or all year S.—CANDYWEEDS. POLYGALAS. 
Capsule much shorter than the wing 
Wings green or merely purple “tinged : cap ue broadly elliptic, UET narrowed 
at the base: wings slightly inequilater . A. grandiflora. 
Wings bright-purple ; e narrowly elliptic, gradually nar- 
rowed at the base: ngs very inequilateral, very oblique. 2. A. leiodes. 
Capsule as lone as the wings or longer. 
ature wines: suborbicular : capsule as long as the wings or 
slightly longer : keel 3. long. 9. A. cumulicola. 
Mature wings ae eane ai longer than the wings: 
keel 2-2.5 mm. long. . A. miamiensis. 
i. A. grandiflora (Walt.) Small. Plant 2-5 dm. tall, the stem finely, often 
closely pubescent: blades of the upper ee elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, or 
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tinged: ppper hs doe Biol ovate, becom- 
long: mature wings 6-7 mm. 
and S. 
Ms bright rose-purple flowers growing 
inly in pen. Florida may represent a 
distinct species 
2. A. leiodes (Blake) Small. Plant 2-4.5 dm. tall, the dis ba m T 
pustulate: blades of the upper leaves linear, typi ically narrowly so, or filiform 
linear: flowers pues usually dark-purple: upper pe become: p fus 
2.5 mm. lon aoe ies 4.5-5.5 mm. long: sen T Poly? mm. long, much 
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umulicola Small. Plant 3-4 dm. tall, the stem finely and closely 
pubescent: blades of the lower ‘as spatul ate to linear- -spatulate, those of 
the upper leaves narrowly elliptic to linear-elliptie or narrowly linear-lanceo- 
