DIADELPHIA. OCTANDRIA. 
oblong-ovate, acute. Has. In sphagnose swamps from 
Sussex county, Delaware, to Florida. Flowering in July 
and August. Ons. Stem about 12 inches high; stem leaves 
about an inch long, of the same length nearly to the 
summit of the stem, nie woe A and somewhat obtuse; 
the whole corymb citron ye low, in a dried state blackish 
green; corolla cristate as in the following species, though 
very inconspicuously so. 
19. * attenuata. Perennial; stem tall, simple, terete, 
and attenuated, summit corymbose, many-flowered; radi- 
cal leaves, spathulate-lanceolate, acute, cauline subulate, 
unequal; calicine wings connivent, elliptic-oblong, acute. 
yy swamps from North Carolina to Florida, 
e, but much larger, from 2 
idwyn called it P. prealta, but 
y tall, and many foreign 
: chosen the present name 
as expressive of the si attenuated appearance of 
the stem, the flowers are the same color as in P. co- 
rymbosa. 
20: * Baldr: Perennial? Stem tall, sparingly and 
_ virgately branched; flowers squarrosely capitate, capituli 
He igo] whitish; wings of the calix connivent, lanceo- 
‘late, setaceously acuminate; radical leaves spathulate, 
tuse, cauline sublanceolate, acute. Has. Near St. 
’s in Florida —Dr. Baldwyn, from whom I receiv: ed 
/ capitulate, appearing 
— See Sree i 
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OF this vast genus ‘containing me more than 100 species, 
