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at apex (the mucro 0.1-0.15 mm. long), rounded at the sessile oblique base, stipitate-glandular- 

 eiliolate on the upper margin, 7-nerved; keel 2.8 mm. long, the crest on each side of a triangular 

 lamella and 2 entire lobes; capsule orbicular, plump, strongly winged beneath on the stipe-like 

 base, 1.4-2.2 mm. long and wide; seed plump, ellipsoid, somewhat shining, short-pubescent, 

 1.2 mm. long; aril equaling the seed, the 2 linear lobes appressed. 



Type locality: Jacksonville, Louisiana. 



Distribution: Florida to Texas. 



Illustration: Mem. Soc Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : pi. 22, f. 13-15. 



138. Polygala brevifolia Nutt. Gen. 2: 89. 1818. 



Slender erect annual, 2.6 dm. high or less, glanduliform-puberulent above; leaves in whorls 

 of 4 or 5 throughout or the uppermost scattered, linear-elliptic or linear, or the lower spatulate 

 or even orbicular, 6-21 mm. long, 1-5 mm. wide, rounded or obtuse, usually apiculate, narrowed 

 at base, spreading or ascending, slightly revolute; peduncles 8 cm. long or less; racemes ovoid 

 or cylindric, at first slightly apiculate, soon obtuse, dense, 7-12 mm. thick, the axis 1-4.3 cm. 

 long; bracts triangular-ovate, ciliate, spreading, persistent, 1 mm. long; pedicels 1.8-2.5 mm. 

 long; flowers rosy-purplish; sepals ovate-oval or ovate, obtuse or acutish, ciliolate, 1.1—1.7 

 mm. long; wings triangular-ovate to oblong-ovate, 2.8-3.2 mm. long, 1.5-2.3 mm. wide, 

 acutish, barely mucronate (mucro 0.1 mm. long) at the slightly inflexed apex, rounded at 

 the oblique sessile base, glabrous, 7-nerved; keel 2.5-3 mm. long, the crest on each side of a 

 deltoid lamella and 2-3 entire or bifid lobes; capsule suborbicular, plump, the short oblique 

 stipe-like base broadly winged on the lower side, 2-2. 1 mm. long, 1.8-2 mm. wide ; seed obovoid- 

 ellipsoid, plump, shining, short-pubescent, 1.4 mm. long; aril 1.1-1.2 mm. long, the 2 linear 

 lobes appressed. 



Type locality: Sandy swamps of New Jersey. 



Distribution: Rhode Island and New Jersey to Florida, and westward to Mississippi. 

 Illustrations: Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : pi. 22, f. 10-12; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 

 f.2277; nA.l.f.2699. 



139. Polygala cruciata L. Sp. PL 706. 1753. 



Polvgala cuspidata Hook. Jour. Bot. Hook. 1: 194. 1834. Not P. cuspidata DC. 1824. 



Pol'vgala missurica Raf. New Fl. 4: 89. 1838. 



Sexilia missurica Raf.; B. D. Jackson. Ind. Kew. 2: 894, as synonym. 1895. 



Polygala cruciata ramosior Nash; B. L. Robinson, in A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. I 1 : 458. 1897. 



Slender erect annual, 0.6-3.6 dm. high, simple or usually cymosely branched; leaves in 

 whorls of 3 or 4 throughout or the uppermost scattered, linear to linear-elliptic, the upper largest, 

 0.8-3.5 cm. long, 1-5 mm. wide, usually apiculate at the obtuse or rounded apex, narrowed at 

 base; peduncles 0.1-5 cm. long; racemes thick-cylindric or ovoid-cylindric, obtuse, or apicu- 

 late, 1-1.7 cm. thick, the axis 6 cm. long or less; bracts subulate-attenuate from an ovate base, 

 ciliolate, spreading, persistent, 1.5-2.5 mm. long; pedicels 2-2.4 mm. long; flowers rosy-purple 

 or greenish, rarely white; sepals ovate, obtuse to acutish, ciliolate, 0.8-1.4 mm. long; wings 

 broadly deltoid-ovate, 3.5-5.6 mm. long, 2.7-3.6 mm. wide near base, subsessile or very shortly 

 clawed at the truncate or slightly oblique base, acuminate and strongly cuspidate (cusp 0.6-1.3 

 mm. long), about 9-nerved; keel 2.8-3.5 mm. long, the crest on each side of a lamella and 2-3 

 entire or bifid lobes; capsule suborbicular, very plump, strongly oblique and winged below 

 on the stipe-like base, 2-2.2 mm. long, 1.8-2.1 mm. wide; seed ellipsoid, plump, short-pubes- 

 cent, 1.1-1.3 mm. long; aril 0.9-1.1 mm. long, the 2 linear lobes appressed. 



Type locality: Virginia. 



Distribution: Southern Maine to Minnesota, south to Florida and Louisiana. 

 Illustrations: A. Gray, Gen. 111. pi. 183. f. 12, 13; Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2)=: pi. 22, 

 f. 6-9; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. /. 2276; ed. 2. /. 2698. 



140. Polygala conferta A. W. Benn.; Hemsl. Diag. 

 PL Nov. 2. 1878. ' 



Polygala cruciata i. parva A. W. Benn.; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 1: 59, hyponym. 1879. 



Slender annual, the stems solitary or rarely few, erect, 7-14 cm. high; lower leaves (1 or 2 

 whorls) in 5's, spatulate-obovate, 3.5-7.5 mm. long, 1.7-3.5 mm. wide; middle leaves (1 or 2 



