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Camden Co., 1867, C. F. Parker;' Atlantic Co:, "1886, C. 

 E. Smith; near Quaker Brid^^e, i860, D. C. Eaton. 

 Pouisylvaiiia. — -Bristol, 1866, J. C. Martindale. Dclaivarc. — 

 Wilmini^ton, \Vm. M. Canby. Maryland. — Salisbury, 1863, 

 Herb. Canbv; l^astern Shore of Marvhmd and Yircjinia, 

 Canby. South Carolina. — Bluffton, 1873, Dr. Melhchamp. 

 Georgia. — Capt. LeConte. 1840; Savannah, Mrs. Say. 



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Florida. — Chapman, Dr. Edw. Palmer; near JacksonA'ille, A. 



H. Curtiss, No. 517; St. John's Co., 1879, J. D, Smith; St. 

 John's Co., PelHcier's Creek, 1882, J. D. Smith; Hibernia, 

 i86g, Canby; Lake Monroe. 1876, Dr. Garber; Palatka, 1876, 



Dr. Garber; near Mu\ port and J 

 D. Kecler. Alabama, — 1846, F. M. l^cese; Mobile, 1845, 

 SuUivant. Mississippi, — Ocean Springs, 1890, iNIiss Skeenan. 



Tx'pe in Herb. Litin. Good flowering specimens from 



Kalm. N. L. B. 



6. P. NANA (Michx.), D. C. Prodr. i. 328, (1824).' 



P. lntca,\i\v. nana, ]\Iichx. Fl. Bor. Am. ii. 54, (1803)^ 

 P, viridcstrns, Walter, PI. Car. 178, (1788). Nutt. Gen- 

 era, ii. 88. (1818), not L.^ ' 



Glabrous throughout, low; stems, in most cases several 

 although occasionally single, ascending, curved, r-6' high, 

 more or less striate; root-leaves rosulate, spatulate ; stem- 



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leaves wanting or few, alternate, scattered, narrowly spatu- 

 late or oblanccolatc, cuspidate; spikes compact, cylindrical, 



ovoid or globose, 3'^-6" in diameter and Yz'-iVz' long, 



minutely squarrose with the acuminate tips of the wings, in 

 some' cases the young spikes smaller and short-conical; 

 fluuers nearly sessile, yellow or yellowish-green, becoming 

 black or greenish-black when dried, wings ovate-lanceolate, 

 long-acMmfnate, about 2^'' long; crest of keel composed o( 

 several long, narrow, acute processes, some of them bifid; 

 stamens usually six in number; style slender, somewhat 

 curved, minutely cucullate near the summit around and above 

 the sessile, or nearly sessile, stigmatic gland, and tufted above, 

 appendage short, tuft almost sessile; capsule small; seeds 



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