POLYGALACEAE 773 
about as long as the wings, often apnd vdd ovate, fully 1.5 mm. long: 
seed narrowly ovoid, about 1.5 m ong.—Pastures, open woods, and sandy 
slopes, various provinces, W. Tenn. PS Mich. and Me. —Sum.—fall. 
5. PILOSTAXIS Raf. Annual or biennial caulescent somewhat succulent 
herbs. Leaves alternate, sometimes mainly basal: blades entire. Flowers a 
alike, borne in single or corymbosely paniculate dene spike-like racemes, yel- 
h 
low or orange, or rarely whitish or greenish. ings conspicuous. Sepals (and 
wings) persistent. Corolla about as as i tamens with the 
l united an nat the posterior petals. Capsule obovate, sub- 
0 
oid, oval, or globular, sometimes with an aril.—Represented only by 
the tubis species.—POLYGA 
Racemes solitary at the end of the stem or terminating branches, not in terminal 
cymes. 
Wings bn ate: seed with ae apical appendages 1/3—1/4 as long as the seed- 
: sepals long and narr 
Keel carved over the Seas pom pistil, but prolonged as a straight fringe, 
with the fringes nearly as long as the body : petals C e p d CUBES 
eel. 
Keel arched over the stamens and DES as a hood, entire: 
2. P. arenicola. 
endage 
Mature wings 6.5-7.5 mm. long, 3 m mm. wide or less: capsule 
about 1.5 mm; wide: seed less than. 1.5 mm. long: raceme 
orange-yello 3. P. lutea. 
Mau ned 8-9 mm. long, over 3 mm. wide: capsule ee 
e: seed fully 1.5 mm. long: raceme lem 
slo 4. P. Rugelii. 
Racemes iü terminal compound cymes. 
acemes yellow. 
ur. ngs R upper sepal acuminate: capsule orbicu- 
P. ramosa. 
al. 
Wings acide: Hpper sepal acute: capsule didymous: 
seed ovoid-globose 
Racemes white or greenish-w white. 
wie 2nd Bsa plage acuminate: capsule less than 1.5 
: seed less than 0.5 mm. wide. 7. P. Baldwinii. 
Wings and. upper sepal c E capsule fully 1 mm. 
wide: seed over 0.5 mm. wide. 8. P. Carteri. 
P. nana (Michx.) Raf. Plant 0.5—1.5 dm. tall: leaf-blades o 
ned Paci so: raceme green 7 go upper NE laneeolate or ovate 
lance 5—6 mm. long 
d een: or V 
6. P. cymosa. 
ps AC —Pinelands and occa- 
nally upland woods, Coastal Plain and 
LM B provinees, Fla. to La., and 
S. C.—AIl yea 
beak. [Polygala mana (Michx. 
UTTON.)— 
2. P. arenicola Small. Plant 0.2-0.5 dm. 
tal: leaf-blades oblanceolate to linear- 
oblanceolate: raceme yellow-green: upper 
sepal lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long, acumin 
mature A lanceolate, ae 7 mm epee mone jas -acuminate: capsul 
about 1.5 mm. wide: seed about 2 mm. long, the body ellipsoid, tipped with 
