Part 5, 1924] POLYGALACEAE 359 



1.3-3.5 cm. long, 2.5-10 mm. wide, the narrow subcrustaceous margin irregularly serrulate; 

 peduncles 6-32 mm. long; racemes cylindric, obtusely apiculate, dense or somewhat loose 

 below, 1-4.5 cm. long, 6-7 mm. thick; bracts obtuse, ovate, deciduous, 1.8-2.3 mm. long; 

 pedicels 0.3-0.4 mm. long; flowers white; sepals ovate, obtuse, glabrous, 1.3-1.8 mm. long; 

 wings suborbicular, 3-3.3 mm. long, 2.2-2.5 mm. wide, rounded, short-cuneate at base, very 

 sparsely ciliate, about 7-nerved; keel 2.2-3 mm. long, the crest on each side of a lamella and 

 2-3 lobes; capsule suborbicular, plump, 2.5-3.5 mm. long, 3-3.8 mm. wide; seed pilose, 2.3 

 mm. long; aril 1.9-2.1 mm. long, the 2 elliptic-linear cellular-scarious lobes appressed. 



Type locality: Virginia. 



Distribution: Southern New Brunswick to eastern shore of Hudson Bay, westward to Alberta, 

 and southward to Georgia, Tennessee, and Arkansas. 



Illustrations: L. Amoen. Acad. 2: pi. 2; Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. pi.; Bot. Mag. pi. 1051; 

 W. Barton, Veg. Mat. Med. pi. 36; Bigel. Am. Med. Bot. pi. 30; Bot. Cab. pi. 13S0; Woodv. 

 Med. Bot. ed. 3.3: pi. 162; Guimp. & Schlecht. Abbild. Pharm. Boruss. Gew. 2: pi. 176; Hayne, 

 Arzn. Gew. 13: pi. 21; A. Gray, Gen. 111. pi. 183, f. 1-11; Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2)2: pi. 25, f. 

 34, 35; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. /. 22S5; ed. 2./. 2707. 



Polygala Senega latifolia T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 131. 1838. P. Senega denlata Chod. Mem. 

 Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : 279. 1893. P. lonchophylla Greene, Pittonia 3: 307. 1898. Stouter, 

 2.8-4.2 dm. high; leaves larger, often oval-ovate, more strongly serrulate, the upper 3.3-6.8 cm. 

 long, 1.3-3 cm. wide; racemes 5-9 mm. thick; wings 3-3.7 mm. long, 2.8-3 mm. wide, sparsely 

 ciliate; capsule 3.5—4.2 mm. long, 4—4.3 mm. wide; seed 3-3.5 mm. long; aril 2.9-3.2 mm. long. 

 Pennsylvania to Indiana, westward to South Dakota, and southward to Missouri and Tennessee. 

 Illustration: Neues Berl. Jahrb. Pharm. 1804: pi. 3 (as P. Senega). 



14S. Polygala polygama Walt. Fl. Car. 179. 1788. 



Polygala rubella Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 875. 1803. 



^Polygala rugosa Raf. New Fl. 4: 89. 1838. 



Polvgala polygama pallida Britton, Bull. Torrev Club 18: 256. 1891. 



Polygala polvgama oblusata Chod. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2)-: 280. 1893. 



Polvgala polvgama macrospora Chod. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : 280. 1893. 



Polygala polygama aborliva Chod. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31 (2) 2 : 280. 1893. 



Anthalogea polygama (Raf.; B. D. Jackson, Ind. Kew. I 1 : 143, as synonym. 1895.) Nieuwl. Am. 



Midi. Nat'. 3: ISO. 1914. 

 Anthalogea rubella Raf.; Nieuwl. Am. Midi. Nat. 3: 180, as synonym. 1914. 

 Polygala polygama f. obovata Blake, Rhodora 17: 201. 1915. 



Stems solitary to many from a biennial (sometimes annual?) root, erect or ascending, 

 simple or sparsely branched, 1.5-3 dm. high, glabrous, bearing loose racemes of cleistogamous 

 flowers from the base or in late season from the axils of the leaves; leaves all alternate, or the 

 very lowest sometimes opposite, the lower or sometimes all spatulate or obovate, the upper 

 usually linear to spatulate-linear, longer than the lower, 12-31 mm. long, 2-S mm. wide, the 

 lower obtuse to rounded and mucronulate, slightly fleshy, the upper acutish; peduncles 1-2 

 cm. long; racemes cylindric, obtuse, loose, 9-14 mm. thick, the axis 13.5 cm. long or less; bracts 

 ovate or oblong-ovate, glabrous, deciduous, 1-1.3 mm. long; pedicels 1-4 mm. long; flowers 

 pink or pink-purple, rarely pale-lilac or nearly white; sepals oval or oval-ovate, rounded to 

 acutish, glabrous, 1.3-2.2 mm. long; wings oval or oval-obovate, 3.2-6 mm. long, 2-3.8 mm. 

 wide, obtuse or rounded, cuneate or clawed at base, about 3-nerved, glabrous; keel 3-5 mm. 

 long, the crest on each side of a lamella and 2-3 divided lobes; capsule oval, margined, some- 

 times erose, plump, 2.5-4 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide; seed ellipsoid, short-pointed at base, plump, 

 pilose, l.S-2.8 mm. long; aril 0.S-2 mm. long, the pilose corneous umbo terminating the beak 

 of the seed, the 2 linear-elliptic to oval cellular-scarious lobes appressed. 



Type locality: South Carolina. 



Distribution: "Nova Scotia to western Ontario" and Minnesota, and southward chiefly in 

 the coastal region to Florida and eastern Texas. 



Illustrations: Bigel. Am. Med. Bot. pi. 54; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. pi. 29; M£m. Soc. Phys- 

 Geneve 31(2)*: pi. 25, f. 36-40; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl./. 2287; ed. 2./. 2709. 



149. Polygala Lewtonii Small, Bull. Torrey 

 Club 25: 140. 1898. 



Stems several or very numerous from a biennial slender root, 1-3 dm. high, erect or ascend- 

 ing, simple or sparsely branched; short leafless branches bearing cleistogamous flowers present; 

 lowest leaves reduced and scale-like, the others alternate, crowded, usually with fascicles of 

 smaller ones in their axils, linear-spatulate, 6-22 mm. long, 1-2.5 mm. wide, mucronulate at 



