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1.5-1.7 mm. wide; seed oblong-ellipsoid, plump, rounded at the ends, short-pubescent, 1.1 

 mm. long; aril 0.8-0.9 mm. long, the 2 lobes linear. 



Type locality: Virginia. 



Distribution: Southern New York to Florida, and westward to Louisiana and Mississippi. 



Illustrations: Pluk. Amalth. pi. 438, f. 6; Mem. Accad. Bologna 5: pi. 20, f. 2; Meehan, 

 Nat. Fl. II. 2: pi. 31; Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2)=: pi. 22, f. 32-35; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 

 f.2275; ed.2.f.2697. 



162. Polygala Balduini Nutt. Gen. 2: 90. 1818. 



Polygala polycephala Baldwin; Nutt. Gen. 2: 90, as synonym. 1818. 

 Polygala Baldwinii T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 128. 1838. 



Stems solitary or few, erect from an annual or biennial root, 2-6.5 drh. high, rarely branched 

 below the infloresence ; basal leaves tufted, obovate, 1-2.2 cm. long, 4-11 mm. wide, obtuse 

 or rounded, often disappearing before flowering time; lower stem- leaves obovate or 

 elliptic and obtuse, the upper lanceolate and acute to acuminate, mucronate, 7-27 mm. long, 

 2-9 mm. wide; racemes numerous, forming a cymosely arranged panicle, densely flowered, 

 capitate or thick-cylindric, blunt, 6-9.5 mm. thick, the axes 0.8-2.5 cm. long; bracts lance- 

 subulate, persistent, 2 mm. long; pedicels winged, 0.7-1 mm. long; flowers white; sepals sub- 

 ulate-ovate to lance-subulate, attenuate, 1.8-2.4 mm. long; wings elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 

 2.8-4.8 mm. long, 0.9-1.4 mm. wide, abruptly narrowed and inflexed at apex to form a cusp- 

 like attenuation 0.6-0.8 mm. long, slightly narrowed at base, 3-nerved; keel 1.7-2.7 mm. long, 

 the crest on each side of a lamella and 2 entire to trifid lobes; capsule depressed-suborbicular, 

 plump, 0.6 mm. long, 0.8 mm. wide; seed thick-ellipsoid, obtuse at each end, sparsely pilose, 

 0.4-0.5 mm. long; aril scarious, 0.2 mm. long, the 2 oval lobes appressed. 



Type locality: Near St. Mary's, Florida. 



Distribution: Georgia to Florida and Mississippi. * 



Illustration: Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : pi. 23, f. 6, 7. 



163. Polygala Carted Small, Bull. N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard. 3: 426. 1905. 



Stems solitary from a biennial root, 1.5-5.2 dm. high, simple or branched; basal leaves 

 tufted, obovate or cuneate-obovate, 9-20 mm. long, 4-7 mm. wide, obtuse, thickish; stem- 

 leaves alternate, linear to narrowly elliptic, 6-33 mm. long, 1-7 mm. wide, acute to acuminate, 

 mucronate or cuspidate, at base obtuse to rounded; peduncles 0.4-4 cm. long; racemes few 

 to very numerous, forming a cymose flattish or convex panicle, cylindric, acute or rarely ob- 

 tusish, dense or loose below, 7-11 mm. thick, the axes 0.8-5 cm. long; bracts ovate, ciliate, 

 ascending, persistent, 1.5-2 mm. long; pedicels narrowly winged, 0.5-1 mm. long; flowers 

 white and greenish, cream-colored in drying; sepals ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely 

 ciliate, 1.6-2 mm. long; wings elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 3.3-4 mm. long, 1.5-1.7 mm. wide, 

 short-cuspidate (cusp 0.3-0.4 mm. long), rounded at base, 3-nerved; keel 2.3-2.8 mm. long, 

 the crest on each side of a lamella and 1-2 entire to quadrifid lobes; capsule depressed-hemi- 

 spheric, 0.7-0.8 mm. long, 1-1.1 mm. wide; seed ellipsoid, plump, slightly pointed at base, 

 pilose, 0.6-0.7 mm. long; aril represented by a very minute scale. 



Type locality: In pine lands between Cutler and Black Point, Florida. 

 Distribution: Everglade region north to Miami, Florida. 



164. Polygala ramosa Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2: 186. 1822. 



IPolygala Baldwinii cklorgena T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 129. 1838. 



Erect glabrousannual, 1.5-4 dm. high, fibrous-rooted, thestems solitary, simpleor branched ; 

 basal leaves in a small tuft, elliptic or obovate, 7-20 mm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, rounded, 

 usually narrowed into a petiole-like base; stem-leaves linear or spatulate to elliptic, 7-24 mm, 

 long, 1.5-8 mm. wide, acute to obtuse at each end; branch-leaves linear, reduced; racemes 

 numerous, terminal and on axillary branches forming a flattish cymose panicle up to 1.4 dm. 

 broad, the separate racemes loosely flowered, 7-11 mm. thick, 1.8 cm. long or less; bracts 

 lance-ovate, ciliolate, spreading, persistent, 1.5 mm. long; pedicels narrowly winged, 1.3-2.3 



