184 DIADELPHiA 0CTA:NDRIA 



8. iSanguinea. 



p. caule fastiffiatim 



Stem bearing fasti- 

 giate branches; leaves 

 linear; spikes erowd- 

 floribus"^ imberbibus ; j ed ; flowers not fim- 

 rachi squarrosa. Nnt. briated; rachis squar- 



ramoso; foliis lineari 

 bus ; spicis confertis ; 



rose. 



Sp. p!. 3. p. 896. Pluk. Mant. t. 438. f. 5. Nutt. 2. p. 88. Mich, 

 2. p. 52. 



Stem 12—18 inches high, slighily striate, branching nearthe summit. 

 leaves linear, lanceolate, sessile, ahernate. SpiJces, with us, generally 

 about an inch long. Bracteas persistent. Cahjcvw wings ohovate, long- 

 er than the capsule, of a bright pink tinged with green, beeds Jiairy. 



This plant agrees perfectly with the figure of Plukenet, and is theretore 

 in all probability, as suggested by Mr: Nuttall, the original P. Sangunieaol 



Linnaeus. , « , i. 



Grows in flat pine barrens, abundantly near Purysburgb. 



Flowers May — July. 



9, Purpurea. Nutt 



P. caule subfastigi- 

 atim ramoso; foliis al- 

 ternis, lineari-lanceo- 

 latis ; floribus subim- 

 bricatis ; spicis cylin- 

 dricis, obtusis ; raclii 





Stem bearing fas- 

 tigiate branches; 



leaves alternate, lin- 

 ear lanceolate; flowers 

 somewhat imbricate; 

 spikes cylindrical, ob- 



squarrosa. Nutt. 2. p. | tuse; rachis squarrost. 



88. 



Sanguinca. Pursh 2. p» 465. 



Plant much more robust than in the preceding species, and m ^^ |^^ 

 cimens more irregularly branched, the Leaves much larger, the c^p 

 more compact, the Calif cine wings broader and more obtuse, green, a 



ed With purple, longer than the capsules. 



Nutt* 



Grows 



I !iave never met with this species in the low country of Carolina^ - 



specimens are irom renns; 

 flowers Jime— August, 



