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7. Sabbatia stellaris Pursh. Sea or Marsh Pink. (Fig. 2861.) 
Sabbatia stellaris Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1:137. 1814. 
Chironia stellata Muhl. Cat. Ed. 2, 23. 1818. 
Stem nearly terete, or slightly 4-angled, 
usually much branched, 6’-2° high, the branches 
alternate. Leaves lanceolate-oblong to linear, 
sessile, %4/-2’ long, 2’/-5’’ wide, or the lowest 
smaller, somewhat obovate and obtuse, the 
uppermost narrowly linear and _bract-like; 
flowers 9//-18’’ broad, usually numerous, soli- 
tary at the ends of the branches or slender 
peduncles; calyx not ribbed, its lobes narrowly 
linear, shorter than or nearly equalling the ob- 
long or obovate corolla-segments; corolla pink 
to white with a yellowish starry eye bordered 
with red; style 2-cleft to below the middle; 
capsule about 214’ high. 
In salt-meadows, coast of Maine to Florida. 
Called also Rose-of-Plymouth. July—Sept. 
8. Sabbatia Elliottii Steud. Elliott’s 
Sabbatia. (Fig. 2862.) 
Swertia difformis \,. Sp. Pl. 226. 1753? 
Sabbatia paniculata Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 
282. 1817. Not Pursh, 1814. 
S. Elliottii Steud. Nomencl. Ed. 2, 2: 489. 1841. 
Stem paniculately branched, terete or 
slightly ridged, 1°-2° high, the branches 
alternate. Lower leaves obovate or lanceo- 
late-oblong, obtuse, 6’/-9’’ long, the upper 
and those of the branches narrowly linear 
or subulate; flowers very numerous, white, 
solitary at the ends of the branches and 
short peduncles, 1’ broad or less; calyx not 
ribbed, its lobes subulate-linear, one-half as 
long as the spatulate or oblanceolate seg- 
ments of the corolla, or less; style 2-parted; 
capsule about 214’ high. 
In pine-barrens, North Carolina to Florida. 
Doubtfully reported from Virginia, but probably 
occursthere. July-Sept. . 
g. Sabbatia campanulata (L.) Torr. 
Slender Marsh Pink. (Fig. 2863.) 
Chironia campanulata I, Sp. Pl. 190. 1753. 
Chironia gracilis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:146. 1803. 
Sabbatia gracilis Salisb. Parad. Lond. p/. 32. 1806, 
Sabbatia campanulata Torr. Fl. U.S.1:217. 1824, 
Similar to the preceding species. Stem usually 
very slender and much branched, 1°-2° high, 
the branches alternate. Leaves linear, or linear- 
lanceolate, 1/-114’ long, sessile, acute, or the 
lowest much shorter, obtuse, oblong or oblan- 
ceolate, sometimes narrowed into short petioles, 
the uppermost almost filiform; flowers pink 
with a yellow eye, about 1’ broad, solitary at 
the ends of the branches and peduncles, mostly 
5-parted; calyx-lobes filiform-linear, equalling 
the oblong-obovate corolla-segments, or some- 
what shorter; style 2-cleft to about the middle; 
capsule obovoid, about 214’ high. 
_ In salt marshes and along brackish rivers, rarely 
in fresh-water swamps, Nantucket to Florida and 
Louisiana. Alsoin Cuba. May-Aug. 
