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Stems paniculately branched above, slender, 4-8 dm. tall: 

 leaves narrowly oblong to linear-oblanceolate, 1-4 cm. long, 

 cuneate at the base, obtuse or retuse at the apex: sepals white 

 or purplish, linear-oblanceolate, 4-5 mm. long; petals 6-8 mm. 

 long, blade broadly obovate, somewhat shorter than the minutely 

 papillose claw; filaments strongly exserted: mature inflorescence 

 not over 1.5 cm. long, pedicels slender, divaricate, 3-10 mm. 

 long, deciduous: pods, including stipe, 3-5.5 cm. long, linear, 

 curved; stipe slender, 8-10 mm. long. 



Distribution: South Carolina and Georgia. Type from 

 Georgia. 



Specimens examined: 



South Carolina: Aiken, Sept. 12-15, 1909, Eggleston 50S6 (U. 

 S. Nat. Herb, and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Georgia: sand-hills north of Augusta, Aug. 12, 1884, J. D. 

 Smith (Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; sand-hills of Gum Swamp Creek, 

 Montgomery County, Sept. 10, 1903, Harper 1981 (U. S. Nat. 

 Herb, and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; sand-hills of Satilla River, 

 Pierce County, Aug. 1, 1902, Harper 1465 (Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb, 

 and U. S. Nat. Herb.). 



Nuttall in the first description of this species gives the habitat 

 as follows: "on sandy barren grassy ridges in the southern parts 

 of Georgia, Alabama and west Florida." In Muhlenberg's 'Cata- 

 logue/ however, where the name is published for the first time, 

 the habitat is given as "Georgia." This would seem sufficient 

 to identify W . cuneifolia as the northern plant rather than the 



might 



known as W. Carteri although 



4.W. Carteri Small, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 36: 159. 1909; 

 Small, Fl. Southeastern U. S. 1337. 1913. 



W. cuneifolia Robinson in Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. I 1 : 180. 1895, 

 in part; Chapman, Fl. Southern U. S., ed. 3, 28. 1897, in part; 

 Small, Fl. Southeastern U. S. 487. 1903, in part. 



Very similar to the preceding in general appearance, 5-15 



dm 



base, obtuse and frequently 



oblong to linear-oblanceolate, cuneate 



about 5 mm. long; petals white or nearly so, somewhat Ion 

 than the sepals, blade ovate to suborbicular, crisped, about 

 long as the slender, minutely fringed claws: mature inflorescei 

 0.5-3 cm. long, pedicels slender, divergent, 3-10 mm. Ion?: r* 



