1046 SPIGELIACEAE 
SPIGELIA L. Ereet herbs. Flowers in solitary or clustered spikes or 
spike-like racemes. Calyx-lobes narrow. Corolla colored, rarely pale, tubular- 
funnelform, scarcely if at all plicate in the bud. Filaments adnate to above 
the middle of the sein take or to near the top.—About 35 species, American 
Plant perennial: inflorescence not subtended by a whorl of bracts. 
Corolla scarlet without, 4—5 cm. lo one anthers exserted. 1. S. marylandica. 
Corolla purplish without, 1.5~2.5 cm. long: anthers included. 2. S. gentianoides. 
Plant annual: inflorescence subtended by: a whorl of bracts. 3. S. Anthelmia. 
1. S. marylandica L. Flant 2-6 dm. tall: leaf-blades ovate to lanceolate, o 
sometimes elliptic 3—10 em. long: calyx- nen 10-11 mm. long: corolla red with- 
LINA-P PIN WORM-GRASS.)— 
Rich a and hillsides, Fla. to Tex., Ind. 
and Md. (or —Spr. 
2. S. gentianoides Chapm. Plant 2-3 dm. 
tall: leaf-blades ovate, or sometimes oval- 
lanceolate near the p of the stem or al- 
most o 1.5-5 long: calyx-lobes 
7—9 m long: ¢ mud DUE lobes deltoid or 
ovate- deltoid. ne soil, W Fla.—Spr. 
3, S. Anthelmia T. nt 1-4 dm. e 
leaf- blades Ge 3-12 em. long: 
cai: subtended by a whorl of ie , 
bracts: d a iE 1.5-2 mm. long: corolla 6-10 mm. long, purplish, ape om 
capsule 5-6 vide, tubereulate.—(WEST-INDIAN PINK-ROOT. WOR s.)— 
Hammocks n m ndn Florida Keys.—(W. I., Mez., C. A., S. rg 
4. CYNOCTONUM J. F. Gmel. Annual (ours) ereet herbs. Flowers in 
terminal cymes, seeund. Calyx usually 5-lobed. Corolla white or pink, urceo- 
late, somewhat longer than the calyx. Filaments almost completely adnate to 
the corolla-tube. Styles united by their tips in anthesis, ultimately distinct. 
Capsule miter-shaped.—About 5 species, of warm regions.—MITERWORTS. 
Leaf-blades narrowed into petiole-like eee inflorescence lax. 1. C. Mitreola. 
pe P ra sessile: inflorescence dens 
des ovate to orbicular: Coro lobes ovate. 2. C. sessilifolium. 
Leaf-blades narrowly elliptic to almost linear: corolla-lobes 
lanceolate to linear-lanceolate. 3. C. angustifolium. 
. Mitreola (L.) Britton. Stem 1-7 dm. bs leaf-blades thin, d 
Mu or ovate, or sometimes n d 1.5-8 em. long, aeute or acumina 
cap- 
corolla-lobes ovate to elliptie- gc 
mm. long.—Damp soil ed A 
Ark., and S Va.—(W. I., Mes., C. A., 
—Sum, or all year S. 
C. sessilifolium (Walt. J. Gmel. 
1-5 dm. tall: leaf-blades ick ovate 
t bi , 1-5 long, obt picu 
late: corolla-lobes d ed shorter dun 
ube: Se ae abou ong.—Pine- 
lands and wet places, pe | Plain, Fla. to 
La.—Sum. 
3. C. angustifolium (T. & G.) Small. 
