OF NORTH XMEM.ICX. ^ 



rough, ^heaths scariose mutic ; racemes many 

 peduacled ovate and oblong, flowers fasciculate 

 crowded.— One of the sp. akin to P. D. lapa- 

 thifoL bipedal, \ery branched, leaves 2 or 3 

 inches long> spikes uncial or less, with a rough 

 pubescence, flowers estival incarnate, se»ds 

 round flat with a hollow in each side and a thick 

 obtuse edge. In Kentucky, Illinois &c. Tho 

 DiscohnUL scahra ft. tel. 430 is a very different 

 plant, perhaps even a Dioctis,and being smooth, 

 it was by a mistake I described it for this: it 

 must be called P. or D. punctata being quite so 

 aud probably P. punctatum of ElUot. 



853. Peutaus heterophyla liaf. smooth 

 erect, lower leaves petiolate, oboval, or ellipticr 

 ciliate sometimes retuse, broadly lanceolate, up- 

 per subsessile narrow, all glaucous beneath ^nd 

 with smooth margins, sheaths pilose ciliate ; ra- 

 cemes short pauciflore compact, sheaths scari- 

 ose smooth,— Singular sp. disc. 1824 m AUe- 

 ghany Mt«. of Virginia, perennial, lower leaves 

 small Oncial quite ciliate, medial large triuncial, 

 ciliate only at base, upper not ciliate ; flowers 

 of a dirty incarnate geminate in small racen»es, 

 seeds lenticular ovate obtuse. 



854. Peutalib glomerata Raf. smootli de- 

 cumbent ramose diffuse, leaves sessile shortly 

 lanct^late obtuse, margin smooth, sheaths nau- 

 ttc, flowers in numerous terminal gloroerAjles, 

 like little heads, sessile or ped uncled paucdtore, 

 flowers subsessile— in Pennsylvania andVirgm- 

 ia, annual, branches and leaves crowded, a^em 

 spreading about one foot, leaves small uncial, 

 heads of flk)wers axil, or terminal, often mter- 

 rupted divide<l in glomerules, flowers autumnal 

 greenish white, seeds lenticular ovate, edges ob- 

 tuse. 



