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the upper lanceolate and shorter; corymbs simple or com- 

 pound; spikes ovoid or globose, compact, 3^^-6^' in diameter; 

 flowers white, almost sessile, wings nearly 2^^ long, ovate- 

 lanceolate, contracted above Into a long narrow point, crest 

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

 much as in the preceding species; capsule minute; seeds 



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dark brown, minute, ovoid, hairy, the two caruncle-lobes very 



minute, scale-like. 



Georgia. — LeConte. Florida, — Dr. Baldwin, (type), 

 Herb. Chapman, Mary C. Reynolds, Buckley, Herb. Canby ; 

 near Jacksonville, A. H. Curtiss, No. 504; near Mayportand 

 Jacksonville, 1 870- 1 876, Henry D. Keeler; Apalachicola, 

 1867, Dr. Saurman; Hibernia, 1869, Canby; Rosewood, S876, 

 Dr. Garber; Tampa, 1876, Dr. Garber; near St. Marks, 1843, 

 Rugel ; 1 ndian River, 1 874, Palmer, No. 2 5 ; Pine Key. 



Type in Herb. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 



Var. riiLORGEXA, T. and G. Fl. N. A. i. 129, (1838). 



Flowers becoming green when dried. 



Florida. — Everglades, Miami, 1877, Dr. Garber. 



4. P. RUGELli, Shuttleworth, in Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. Suppl 



613, (1882). 

 P, Rcyuoldsia\ Chapm. loc. cit. (1882). 



Glabrous throughout; stem erect or ascending, 1^-2^ 



high, simple or branching, somewhat angled above; root- 



leaves and lower stem-leaves i'-2' long, spatulate, the rest 

 smaller, lanceolate and acute, alternate; spikes long-pedun- 

 cled, ovoid or globose, 6'''-9'' in diameter, compact; flowers 

 yellow, becoming dark blue when dried, wings obovate or 

 obovate-elliptical, about ^y^^^ ^^^'^Z^ cuspidate, more or less 

 distinctly 7-9 veined, crest of keel consisting of a few short, 

 thick processes, some of which are more or less bifid; stamens 

 eight in number; style rather long and slender, auriculate 

 above the middle on either side of the long pedicelled some- 

 what pendulous stigmatic gland, and prolonged above into a 

 tufted appendage; capsule small, seeds small, obovoid, 



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