POLYGALACEAE 767 
late: flowers purple, often pale: upper en becoming 1.5-2 mm. long: mature 
wings broadly obovate, 4.5-5 mm. long: c i5 ule 4.5-5.5 mm. long: seed-body 
about 2 mm. long. [Polygala "Kragü (Fl . U. x FE. ASA mA Small.] 
—Coastal sand-dunes, lower eastern coast, m Fla 
A. miamiensis Small. Plant 3-4 dm. tall, the stem minutely pubescent: 
pare of the lower leaves spatulate to elliptie- spatulate, is of the upper 
leaves roe elliptic: ee pa a E upper sepal bee aing 1-1.5 mm 
long: matur wings obovate, 2.5-3 . long: capsule 3- 25m . long, exceed- 
ing the win m eed-body E ut 2 mm. long. [Polygala On Small.]— 
Everglades near "c source of the Miami River, Fla. 
2. TRICLISPERMA Raf. Perennial caulescent herbs with elongate 
rootstocks. Leaves e DE the lower ones scale-like, the upper 
larger, approximate. Flowers of two kinds, X 
the petaliferous showy, c to en like 
bracts, rose-purple or rarely white, the 
eleistogamous ineonspieuous, borne on short 
basal M ui E eae conspicuous. Sepals 
filaments adnate to the two posterior petals. 
Stigma discoid, not lobed. Capsule 2-lobed. 
Seed with a prominently 3-lobed aril.—One 
species. 
ie r poe ins (Wild.) Nieuwl Plant 0.5-2 dm. tall: leaf-blades various, 
those of the er leaves seale- d those of the upper eig oval, or ovate: 
braets similar to the upper leaves: flowers rose-colored, ipi. rple, or white: 
sepals 4-6 mm. long: wings o to obovate, 10—18 ong: "keel gei 
as long as the wings, ihe claw longer than the PAN lateral AE 12-14 m 
long: on suborbieular or orbieular-obeordate, 5— wide, winge s 
the notched apex: seed ovoid, the body 2.5-3 mm. long, t Gu ear br lobes 
reaching nearly or quite to the base of the seed. [Poly du paueifolia illd.] 
— ( BIRD- -WING. aber FLOWERING-WINTERGREEN. idera d XR 
GALA. GaAY-WINGS.)—Moist woods and ravines, often in subacid "ii various ' 
provinces, N T of Coastal Plein Ga. to Ill, Man., Que., and Me.—Spr.-sum. 
ALYPOLA Nieuwl Annual eaulescent, slender, usually simple 
Leaves alternate, inconspicuous: blades very narrow, erect. Flowers 
n 
the base. Stamens 8, the filaments adnate, 
and united to the posterior petals. Stigma 
prominently 2-lobed. Capsule wingless, ob- 
scurely notched at the apex. Seed with an 
obscurely lobed aril.—One species. 
