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top of the mountain, chiefly in thickets. The species is apparently 
a late bloomer; although the season was far advanced the plants 
had not produced any capsules. 
11. TRADESCANTIA PILOSA J. G. C. Lehm. 
Tradescantia pilosa J.G.C. Lehm. Nov. Act. Leop. 14: Part 2, 
822. pl. 48. 1828. . 
Tradescantia flexuosa Raf. Atl. Journ. 150, 1832. 
Tradescantia axillaris Raf. New FI. Part 2,87. 1836. 
Tradescantia axillaris var. flexuosa Raf. New Fl. Part 2, 87. 
1836. 
Tradescantia Virginica var. flexuosa S. Wats.; Wats & Coult. 
in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6: 539. 1890. 
Perennial, stout, pilose and more or less puberulent, dull green; 
stems erect or ascending, 4-8 dm. tall, flexuous, often puberulent, 
or glabrate, leafy to the top, simple or sparingly branched ; leaves 
lanceolate or sometimes rather narrowly lanceolate, 1-2.5 dm. long, 
acuminate, dark green above, paler beneath; sheaths I-1.5 cm. 
long, ciliate, inconspicuously ribbed; involucre of 2-3 bracts simi- 
lar to the leaves, one about twice as long as the others; pedicels 
normally slender, 1.5—2 cm. long, villous-pilose, or often glabrate; 
flowers pale blue or deep blue, large, 2.5~-3 cm. broad, the cymes 
usually crowded at maturity ; sepals ovate or oblong, about 7 mm. 
long, apparently lanceolate by their involute edges, two strongly 
hooded, the third not hooded, mostly villous-pilose; petals ovate- 
orbicular, obtuse ; capsule globose-oblong, 5 mm. long, constricted 
at the middle, pilose at the summit; seeds oblong or ovoid, 2-3 
mm. long. 
Thickets and shady hillsides, Ohio to Missouri, south to West 
Virginia and Tennessee. Naturalized about Bartram’s Garden, 
Philadelphia. May to August. 
In size, habit and leaf form, especially in the breadth of the 
leaves, this is our most conspicuous Zyadescantia; the lanceolate 
leaves with their pilose pubescence, the normally flexuous stems 
and the usually axillary flower-clusters readily separate it from all 
other species. In range it is campestrian with Kentucky and 
Tennessee as its center of distribution; it is unknown west of the 
Mississippi river except in eastern Missouri. 
