48 NEOBOT. 



gle terminal spike, slender pauciflore, adpressed 

 subsessile in the bristly sheaths — Florida found 

 by Dr. Baldwin and deemed new by him, stem 

 pedal, leaves biuncial, spike uncial 7 flowers — 

 I have also the M. hirsuta Raf. polyg. do of 

 Walter, Elliot 4*^, collected by Baldwin in 

 Florida, a singular sp. covered with long fulvous 

 hairs, leaves broadly lanceolate, sheaths of 

 flowers tubular obtuse nearly as in M. ligularis. 



850. Peutalis or mitesia diveugens R. 

 smooth decumbent ramose, branches divergent 

 or reflexed, leaves sessile narrow lanceolate 

 acute margin smooth, sheaths scariose ciliate, 

 racemes terminal filiform, sheaths valvular 

 shorter than pedicels. — Dicovered 1818 in Ken- 

 tucky, deemed Polyg. divaricatum then, but 

 having obtained that plant it is quite different. 

 Stem 2 feet long, branches diverging like a T 

 not like a Y, even often reflexed, leaves equal 

 to internodes 2 inches long very narrow, spikes 

 as long, flowers white estival, seeds trigone and 

 thus a true Mitesia, 



851. Peutalis or Heptarinia longifolia 

 Raf. smooth erect ramose, leaves narrow lan- 

 ceolate very long acuminate sessile, margin 

 rough, sheaths scariose ciliate, racemes slender 

 filiform spiked, sheaths tubular subciliate — Mt?. 

 Alleghanies and hills of Pensylv, bipedal, leaves 

 5 and 6 inches long, only half inch broad, flow- 

 ers incarnate small autumnal, spikes uncial often 

 geminate and interrupted at base. Flowers as 

 in Hept. orientaUs with 7 stamens, 2 styles ex- 

 erted, stigmas capitate, seed lenticular, 



852. Peutalis (discolenta) scabra Raf. 

 stem dichotome erect subangular, rough above 

 chiefly in the peduncles of spikes, leaves petio- 

 late lanceolate acuminate, margins and nerves 



