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small, obov'oid, dark brown, hairy, curved, conspicuously 

 beaked, the two caruncle-lobes narrow, diverg-in.q:, Vi, the 

 length of the seed. 



Soiifk Caj'olina. — Nuttall, 1824, ex. Herb. J. Gay. 

 Georgia. — LeConte, Boykin, Dr. Bacon. Florida. — 1843, 

 Rugel; 1874, Mary C. Reynolds; Chapman, No. 18; Polk 

 Co., Fort Meade. 1880, J. D. Smith; St. John's Co., 1879, J- 

 D. Smith; Manatee, 1878, Dr. Garber; Miami, 1877, Dr. 

 Garber; Hibcrnia, 1869, Canby; Indian River, 1874, Dr. 

 Edw. Palmer, No. 2;; Duval Co., 1S82, J. D. Smith; St. 

 John^s River, 1872, Dr. Torrey; near Jacksonville, A. H. 

 Curtiss, No. 518; near Mayport and Jacksonville, 1870-1876, 

 Henry D. Keelcr. Alabama. — Mobile, 1845, Sullivant. Missis- 

 sippi. — 1 888, S. M. Tracy; 1885, A. B. Langlois. Louisiana.— 

 Hale; New Orleans, Dr. Ingalls; Feliciana, Carpenter. 

 Arkansas, — Dr. Leavenwortli. 



Type of P. lutca, var. nana, Michx. in Herb. Michaux; 

 fide Torr. and Gray. 



7. p. CRuciATA, L. Spec. PI. yoG, (1753)- 



p. cnspidata. Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 194, (1834), not D. C, 



Glabrous throughout; very variable in size; stem erect 

 or ascending, 4'- 16' high, more or less distinctly 4-angled, 

 simple or branched, stout or slender; leaves verticillate in 

 fours, or, in son^ie cases, in fives, variable in size and shape, 

 %^'i}4' lc)ng, linear, oblanceolate, spatulate, or even nar- 

 rowly elliptical, more or less distinctly resinously punctate; 

 spikes sessile or upon very short peduncles, ovoid, or in some 

 cases almost cylindrical compact, ^^-g'' in diameter, usually 

 conspicuously squarrose with the acuminate tips of the wings; 

 bracts persistent; flowers greenish-purple, pink, or almost 

 white; pedicels about i'^ long; wings conspicuous, deltoid- 

 acuminate or deltoid-ovate, l}i'''2yz'^ long; cresl of keel 



small, consisting of a few short and rather thick processes, 

 stamens eight in number, style rather slender, somewhat 

 curved, minutely cucullate above the middle, above and 

 around the short pedicelled stigmatic gland, and terminating 



