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Glabrous throughout; stem erect, 6'-i8' high, simple or 

 branching, leafy, corynibosel}' branched at the summit; root- 

 leaves rosuL'ite. spatuhite or obo\-ate, y>'-i' long, stem- 

 leaves alternate, scattered narrowly spatulate, oblanceolate 

 and lanceolate from beloAv upwards, small; corymbs com- 

 pound; spikes ovoid, less than 6''' in diameter; pedicels about 

 l''' long; flowers yellow, becoming blackish when dried; 



wings ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, about i V^^^ long; crest 



of keel small, fimbriate; stamens eight in number; style 

 small, slender, slightly broadened and auriculate on either 

 side of the minute, almost sessile stigmatic gland and pro- 

 longed above into a short, tufted, in some cases two-lobed 

 appendage; capsule minute; seeds dark brown, minute, o\'oid, 

 minuteh' hair\'', the two caruncle-lobes scale-like, coN'erincr 

 the extrcmitv' of the seed only. 



Dclixwa7't\ — Nuttall ; Felton, 1 867 and 1 874. Canby ; 

 l^llendale, 1 875, Herb. Canby. A' Carolina. — Rowan Co.. 

 1890, A. A. Heller; Wilmington, Curtis. .V. Carolina. — Rav- 



enel, Elliott; Bluffton, Beaufort District, 1873, 1886 and 

 1887, Dr. Alellichamp; Sumter Co., 1884, J. D. Smith; Colum- 

 bia, Dr. Gibbs; Florence, 1878, Herb. Canby; near Charles- 

 ton, Dr. Bachman; Santee Canal, Ravenel. Georgia. — I.e 

 Conte, Dr. Harden. Florida, — Herb. Chapman . Mary C. 

 Reynolds, LcContc; Miami, 1877, Dr. Garber; Tampa, 1876, 

 Dr. Garber; near Jacksonville, A, H. Curtiss, No. 522: near 

 Mayport and Jacksonville, 1870- 1876, Henry D. Keeler; 

 Indian River, -i 874, Palmer, No. 24; Apalachicola, 1867, Dr. 

 Saurman. Mississippi.— Oc^ViW Springs, 1890, Miss Skee- 

 han. Z^w/.sv>?/M.— Hale, Carpenter, Tainturier; Covington, 

 T- Drummond, No. 99; New Orleans, 1832. T. Drummond, 

 No. 37. Texas. — Dr. Leavenworth. 



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3. P. Baldwixii, Nutt. Genera, ii. 90, (1818). 



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Glabrous throughout; stem erect, r^-2" high, simple, or 

 branching above, corymbosely branched at the summit; root- 

 leaves spatulate or obovate, J^'-i' long, stem-leaves alter- 



nate, scattered, the lower ones narrowly spatulate, ^' lun 





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