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number); Sumpter county, J. D. Smith; Indian River, W. M. 
Canby. 
2. TRADESCANTIA ROSEA Vent. 
Lradescantia Virginica Walt. Fl. Car. 119. 1788, Not 7. Vir- 
Siniana LL, 
Lradescantia rosea Vent. Hort. Cels, p/. 2g. 1800. 
_ Perennial by rootstocks, slender, nearly glabrous, bright-green. 
Stems erect or nearly so, often densely tufted, 1-5 dm. tall, usually 
simple; leaves narrowly linear or nearly filiform, 1-3 dm. long, 
flat or involutely folded, acuminate, sometimes surpassing the 
peduncles ; sheaths cylindric or funnelform, .5—1 cm. long, fringed 
with long white cilia; cymes usually solitary, or sometimes 2 to- 
gether, terminal, their peduncles 8-15 cm. long, subtended by 
linear bracts; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, glabrous; sepals lanceolate 
Or ovate-lanceolate, 5~6 mm. long, acutish, petals pink or rose- 
color, orbicular-oblong, obtuse; filaments glabrous, anther-cells 
contiguous ; capsules subglobose, 4-5 mm. in diameter. 
Sandy soil, Maryland to Missouri, south to Florida and Texas. 
Spring and summer. 
3. TRADESCANTIA BREVICAULIS Raf. 
Tradescantia brevicaulis Raf. Atl. Journ. 150. 1832. 
Lradescantia pumila Raf. New FI. Part 2, 86. 1836. 
Tradescantia Virginica var. villosa S. Wats.; Wats. & Coult. in 
A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 539. 1890. 
Perennial by a cluster of slender roots, low, stoutish, more or 
less villous, bright green. Stems solitary or usually Sepiaie 
erect, almost wanting or I~I0 cm. tall, simple; leaves linear or 
narrowly linear, 1.5~3 dm. long, flattish, acute or sometimes rather 
obtuse, sheaths 12.5 cm. long, mostly imbricated ; involucre of 2 
nearly equal leaf-like bracts which are longer and broader than the 
leaves; pedicels stoutish, 3.55.5 cm. long, villous; flowers etd 
Purplish-blue, 5-15 in an umbel-like cyme, about 2 cm. pained 
Sepals ovate or oblong-ovate, 10-11 mm. long, obtuse; t sags 
suborbicular, obtuse, delicately nerved; mature capsule not seen. 
Hillsides gud woods, Illinois to Missouri and Kentucky, ‘May ia 
to June. De ae aaa 
4. TRADESCANTIA VIRGINIANA L. 
Tradescantia Virginiana L. Sp. Pl. 288. 1753. 
Tradescantia rupestris Raf. Atl. Journ. 150. 1832. 
Perennial by a cluster of rather thick white or yellowish roots, 
stout or stoutish, glabrous or nearly so, L apleulees epee 
yellowish roots, 
