POLYGALACEJE. (MILKWORT FAMILY.) 85 
kind showy and perfect, borne in a loose terminal raceme, the other imperfect, 
but fruiting, in radical (rarely axillary) spikes; wings obovate ; caruncle half 
as long as the obovate very hairy seed. (P. rubella, Muhl.) — Wet or dry 
sandy barrens, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. May and June. (à — 
Stems 6' - 12/ high, very leafy. Racemes 2’~6’ long. Flowers purple. 
17. P. Senega, L. (SENECA SNAKEROOT.) Stems several from a thick 
woody root, erect or ascending, simple or branching above; leaves numerous, 
lanceolate, the upper ones acute (1! long) ; spike cylindrical, peduncled; wings 
round-obovate, as long as the capsule; lobes of the caruncle linear, as long as 
the obovate hairy seed. — Var. LATIFOLIA, Torr. & Gray. Stem taller (19-119); 
leaves large (2' - 4' long), ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at each 
end. — Dry rocky woods in the upper districts of North Carolina and northward ; 
the variety in Tennessee, and northward. May and June. y — Stems 8/-12/ 
high. Spikes 1/-14/ long. Flowers greenish-white. 
18. P. alba, Nutt. Stems several from a somewhat woody root, erect or 
ascending, angular, at length branched above; leaves linear, narrowed toward 
the base, acute, or lowest ones obtuse; spike long-peduncled, linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate ; flowers short-pedicelled ; wings oval, rather longer than the capsule; 
lobes of the caruncle shorter than the oblong-obovate very hairy seed. (P. bicolor, 
Kunth.) — Interior of Alabama, Buckley, and westward. — Stems 39— 19 high. 
Spikes 1/—3'long. Flowers white. Bractsdeciduous. ^ ^^ = =o ooo 
* * Leaves whorled : flowers small, greenish or white, in slender spikes. 
19. P. Boykinii, Nutt. Perennial; stems numerous, ‘angled, simple or 
sparingly branched; leaves 4-5 in a whorl, the lower ones oblong-obovate, the 
upper lanceolate and scattered ; spike linear, long-peduncled ; wings obovate, as 
long as the capsule; caruncle half as long as the oblong-obovate curved and 
very hairy seed. — Rich calcareous soil, Florida, Georgia, and westward. May- 
July. Y — Stems 19-29 high. Leavesl'long. Spikes 9'-3' long. Flowers 
white. 
20. P. verticillata, L. Annual; stems low, 4-angled, much branched; 
leaves 4-5 ina whorl, linear, acute, the upper ones scattered ; spikes lanceolate ; 
wings roundish, as long as the capsule ; lobes of the caruncle half as long as the 
oblong hairy seed. — Dry sandy soil, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. 
June - Aug. — Stem 4'-8' high. Spikes }'- 1’ long. Flowers greenish-white. 
21. P. leptostachys, Shuttl. Annual ; stems filiform or setaceous, sim- - 
ple, or branched above, straight; leaves remote, 4 —5 in a whorl, narrow-linear — 
or filiform, acute; spike linear, long-peduncled ; wings oval, nearly sessile, — 
smaller than the capsule; caruncle half as long as the smooth curved clavate- - 
obovate seed, — Dry sand hills, Florida. May - August. — Stems 10’-15/ high, 
Flowers greenish. —— eee dirus 
$3. Flowers azillary, and with imperfect radical ones, as in 
22. P. paucifolia, L. Perennial; flowering stems sir 
She summit ; leaves large, ovate, alternate, narrowed into a petic 
ones bractlike ; flowers (1-3) peduncled, crested, very large 
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