OF NORTH AMEflICA 89 



— in Arkanzas and Texas, perennial, pedal 

 slender, leaves very narrow half uncial, raceme 

 terete uncial, flowers, white small, on short pe- 

 dicels almost imbcicate, bracts lanceolate : this 

 sp. may be a Muraltia^ I cannot determine the 

 stamens. 



96G. PoLYGALA (Sexilia) missuuica Raf. 

 stem branched diffuse 4gone, leaves quaternate 

 and opposite broad lanceolate smooth, base 

 aeute, end mucronate ; spikes terminal oblong 

 imbricate — in the prairies of Missouri and Illi- 

 nois, 3 to 4 inches high, leaves larger and 

 broader than in others, flowers white, not in fili- 

 form spikes. Annual. 



967. PoLYGALA (Muraltia ?) rugosa Raf, 

 stems angular prostrate, leaves alternate rugose 

 lower cuneate obtuse,upper linear cuneate acute, 

 flowers in slender spikes — on Lake Michigan, 

 humble, 3 to 6 inches long, leaves less than one 

 inch^ flowers red, sessile in short spikes ; but 

 very imperfect in my specimen, probably a Mu- 

 raltia. 



968. PoLYGALA or PlLOSTAXIS HYEDIALIS 



Raf, stemless, leaves all radical obovate obtuse 

 capituie sessile squarrose ovaKbracfs lanceolate 

 membranaceous as long as flowers — this and 

 the next are blended in P. liitea var. nana of 

 Mx. but quite unlike our I\ lutfa of New Jer- 

 sey. Found by Baldwin and Nuttal in Florida 

 and Georgia, blossoming in January, leaves un- 

 equal uncial often spatulate, heads shortor than 

 leaves, flowers greenish, root annual. 



969. PoLYGALAor PlLOSTAXIS NANA Raf sub- 

 scapose, leaves cuneate and oblong, obtuse and 

 acute, stem short with 1 or 2 leaves lanceolate, 

 head oval squarrose, bracts subulate elongate, 

 wings lanceolate acuminate — in Florida found 



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