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very villous; leaves lanceolate or narrowly-lanceolate, 1-3 dm. 
long, acute or short-acuminate, ciliate, villous on both surfaces or 
glabrate above, somewhat narrowed near the base; sheaths vil- 
lous like the stem, 1-3 cm. long; involucre of I~2 bracts like the 
leaves but smaller; flowers blue, 1.5-2 cm. broad; pedicels usu- 
ally densely villous; sepals oblong or elliptic-oblong, 7-9 mm. 
long, villous, acute or acutish ; capsules oblong, 4-5 mm. long, 
glabrous; seeds oblong, 3 mm. long, tuberculate-ridged. 
Upper districts and mountains of Georgia ; Chapman, two col- 
lections. 
Allied to Tradescantia montana, but readily distinguished by the 
conspicuous villous pubescence. 
10. TRADESCANTIA MONTANA Shuttl. 
Tradescantia montana Shuttl. ; Britton, in Britton & Brown, 
Ill. Fl. x: 377. 1896. 
Perennial by a cluster of elongated roots, slender, nearly 
glabrous, dark green. Stems usually solitary, erect, 3-7 dm. tall, 
straight or nearly so, simple or sparingly branched above; leaves 
narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1-3 dm. long, usually 
minutely pubescent, or rarely glabrate, acuminate, flat; sheaths 
1-2 cm. long, ciliate ; involucre of two lanceolate leaf-like bracts, 
one of which is at least one-half smaller than the other; flowers 
blue, small, 2-2.5 cm. broad; pedicels slender, I-1.2 cm. long ; 
Sepals ovate or oblong,sometimes apparently lanceolate by the invo- , 
lute edges, 5—6 mm. long, pilose or villous, obtuse, hooded, often 
minutely glandular; petals sub-orbicular or orbicular-ovate ; cap- 
sule oblong or oval, 5~6 mm. long, glabrous, or pilose especially 
above the middle; seeds oval-oblong, 3 mm. long, irregularly 
tuberculate and coarsely granular. ie 
Sandy hillsides in the Allegheny mountains from Virginia to : 
North Carolina and South Carolina; ascends to 1200 meters in 
North Carolina. June to August. 
Virginia: Britton, Small; North Carolina: Rugel, Porter, 
Small & Heller; South Carolina: Small. tae 
Tradescantia montana appears to be strictly Alleghenian in its 
distribution. It is more closely related to Tradescantia pilosa 
than to any other species, but it is smaller throughout, with a 
straight or almost straight stem, narrower and thinner leaves and 
usually less pubescence. 
Last July I found this plant abundantly on Paris mountain, ve : 
near Greenville, South Carolina. It grew on the upper slopes and 
