OF NORTH AMERICA O^ 



— in Arkanzas and Texas, perennial, pedal 

 slender, leaves very narrow half uncial, raceme 

 terete unciul, flowers white small, on short pe- 

 dicels ahnost imbricate, bracts hmceolate : this 

 sp. may be a MurallMj I cannot determine the 

 stamens,^ 



960. PoLYGALA (SexiHa) missuuica Raf. 

 stem branched diffuse 4gone, leaves quaternate 

 and opposite broad lanceolate smooth, base 

 acute, end mucronate ; spikes terminal oblong 

 imbricate — in the prairies of Missouri and Illi- 

 nois, 3 to 4 inches high, leaves larger and 

 broader than in others, tiowers white, not in fili- 

 form spikes. Annual. 



967. PoLYGALA (Muraltia ?) rugosa Raf, 

 stems angular prostrate, leaves alternate rugose 

 lower cuneate obtuse,upper linear cuneate acute, 

 flowers in slender spikes — on Lake Michigan, 

 humble, 3 to 6 inches long, leaves less than one 

 inch, flowers red, sessile in short spikes ; but 

 very imperfect in my specimen, probably a Mu- 

 raltia. 



968. PoLYGALA or PiLOSTAXIS HYEMALTS 



Raf. stemless, leaves all radical obovate obtuse 

 capitule sessile squarrose oval, bracts lanceolate 

 membranaceous as long as flowers — this and 

 the next are blended in P. laiea var. nmia of 

 Mx. but quite unlike our P. Itdea of New Jer- 

 sey. Found by Baldwin and Nuttal in Florida 

 and Georgia, blossoming in January, leaves un- 

 equal uncial often spatulate, heads ^horter than 

 leaves, flowers greenish, root annual. 



969. POS.YGALA or PILOSTAXIS NANA Raf. sub- 



scapose, leaves cuneate ami oblong, obtuse and 

 acute, stem short with 1 or 2 leaves lanceolate, 

 head oval squarrose, bracts subulate elongate, 

 wings lanceolate acuminate — in Florida found 

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