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rounded, cuneate at base, about 6 nerved ; keel 2.3 mm. long, the crest on each side of a cuneate 

 lobed lamella and 2 simple or bifid lobes; capsule oval, 2-2.4 mm. long, 1.5-1.6 mm. wide; 

 seed ellipsoid-cylindric, short-beaked at base, pilose, 1.7-1.8 mm. long; aril 1.2-1.6 mm. high, 

 pilose at apex, the 2 linear-elliptic scarious lobes appressed. 



Typb locality: Between Cutler and Longview Camp, Florida. 

 Distribution: Southern peninsular Florida. 



119. Polygala Boykini Nutt. Jour. Acad. 

 Phila. 7: 86. 1834. 



Stems several or many from a slender annual or biennial root, erect, simple or rarely 

 branched, 2.5-5.2 dm. high; leaves in whorls of 4-6 to middle or nearly to apex of stem, usu- 

 ally much shorter than the internodes, obovate to elliptic or oblanceolate, the others alternate, 

 the uppermost or sometimes nearly all linear or lance-linear, 6-30 mm. long, 1.5-7 mm. wide, 

 obtuse to acuminate, mucronulate; peduncles 3-13.5 cm. long; racemes cylindric, acuminate, 

 loose, 4.5-8 mm. thick, the axis 4-24.5 cm. long; bracts subulate, ciliate, deciduous, 1.7 mm. 

 long; pedicels 0.8-1 mm. long; flowers whitish ; sepals ovate, acute, ciliolate, 1.3-1.8 mm. long; 

 wings oval, 2.2-3.1 mm. long, 1.5-2.1 mm. wide, rounded, short-cuneate at base, 7-nerved; 

 keel 2-2.7 mm. long, the crest on each side of a cuneate lamella and 3 linear simple or bifid 

 lobes; disk conspicuous on upper side of ovary; capsule oval, obscurely margined above at 

 apex on upper side, 2.2-2.5 mm. long, 1.5-1.8 mm. wide; seed pilose, 1.6-1.8 mm. long; aril 

 1-1.3 mm. high, the 2 oblong lobes appressed. 



Type locality: Georgia. 



Distribution: Georgia to Florida, and westward to Louisiana. 



Illustration: Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : pi. 20, f. 15-16. 



120. Polygala aparinoides H. & A. Bot. Beech. 

 Voy. 227. 1836. 



Polygala leplandroides Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 27 s : 349. 1854. 



Polygala nemoralis A. W. Benn. Jour. Bot. 17: 172, in part. 1879. 



Polygala verticillata aparinoides Chod. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) : : 140, as to synonym only. 



1893. 

 Polygala Vogtii Chod. Mem. Soe. Phys. Geneve 31 (2) 2 : 144. 1893. 



Stems solitary or several from a slender perennial base, erect or spreading, 23 cm. long 

 or more, narrowly 5-angulate-winged; leaves in whorls of 5 throughout, or the uppermost 

 scattered, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, or the lowest suborbicular or elliptic-obovate, 10-21 

 mm. long, 4.5-10 mm. wide, acute or subacute, cuspidate, with narrow denticulate margin; 

 peduncles 8.5 cm. long or less; racemes cylindric, acuminate, rather dense, 5-6 mm. thick, 

 the axis 16.5 cm. long or less; pedicels 0.5-0.7 mm. long; flowers rosy; sepals broadly oval to 

 ovate, glandular-ciliolate, 1.5-1.8 mm. long; wings elliptic-obovate, 2-3.5 mm. long, 1.5-2.5 

 mm. wide, rounded, short-clawed, 5-nerved; keel 2.6 mm. long, the crest on each side of about 

 4 lobes; capsule broadly elliptic, 2-2.5 mm. long, 1.6-2.1 mm. wide; seed appressed-pilose, 

 2 mm. long, equaled by the 2 narrowly oblong appressed lobes of the aril. 



Type locality: Jalisco. 

 Distribution: Jalisco to Guatemala. 



Illustrations: Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : pi. 20, f. 25-26; Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 

 pl.2,f. 64. 



121. Polygala turgida Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 10: 123. 1906. 



Polygala alba alcalina Chod. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3: 122. 1895. 



Many-stemmed fleshy perennial, procumbent, 1-3 dm. long; leaves in whorls of 5 

 throughout, or a few uppermost scattered, spatulate-obovate, rounded and mucronate, cuneate 

 to base, thick, fleshy, 7-24 mm. long, 3.5-10 mm. wide; racemes cylindric, dense, 5 mm. thick, 

 the axis 1-9 cm. long; pedicels 0.5 mm. long or less; flowers pinkish; sepals orbicular- to 

 deltoid-ovate, obtuse, 1.3-1.5 mm. long; wings obovate, 2.8 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, short- 

 clawed, rounded at apex, 5-nerved; keel 2 mm. long, the crest on each side of 3 lobes; capsule 

 suborbicular-ovate, 1.4 mm. long, 1.2 mm. wide; seed short-pilose, 1.3 mm. long; aril 1.2 mm. 

 high, the 2 lobes linear-oblong-obovate, appressed. 



