119 



Type of ** Polygala foliis quaternis," Gronov., on which 

 the species is based, in Herb. Mus. Brit. N. L. B. 



8. P. BREVIFOLIA, Nutt. Genera, ii. 89, (1818). 



P. cruciaia, Torr. and Gray, Fl. N. A., i. 127, (1838), in 



part 



Glabrous throu<^hout; stem erect or ascendin<j, often 

 slender, weak or flexuous, more or less angled, 8'-2^ ^"^iff^^ 

 branched, or in some cases simple; leav^es verticillate, except 

 in some cases the upper ones, usually in fours, much like 

 those of the preceding but often thinner and more conspicu- 

 ously black-punctate; spikes ovoid, about ^' in diameter, in 

 some cases slightly apiculate, rather compact, peduncled, 

 peduncles often long; bracts persistent; wings lanceolate- 



ovate, mucronate, the mid-vein thickened and prominent at 

 the tip, or, in some cases, almost pointless, in other respects 

 the flowers much as in the preceding species; stamens eight 

 vci number; capsule and seeds much as in the preceding 

 species. 



New Jersey, — Nuttall, (type), Dr. Torrey, A, Gray; Pine 

 Barrens, 1 820, Dr. Torrey, in company with Mr, Nuttall, 

 (dist. as P.fastigiata, Nutt.); Hammonton, 1890, Dr. J. B. 

 Brinton; Brown's Mills, 1864, Diffenbaugh; Atsion, 1867, C. 

 F. Parker; Tom's River, 1874, C. F. Parker; Pine cottage. S. 

 W. Conrad; " Head waters of Aucocas, 4 miles south of Han- 

 over Furnace," S. W. Conrad, (dist as P, ci'uciatay Pursh.); 



Qua! 



^t;, 1 cn^v^, !>. j_yiiii^iiiJtiui^ 



Quaker Bridge, 1861, 





Herb. Canby; Forked River, 1889, Dr. N, L. Britton; Secau- 

 cus, T. F. Allen. Florida, — Chapman. MississippL — Ocean 

 Springs, 1889, S. M. Tracy, (dist. as P. cntciata, L.). 



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



9. P. HOOKERI, Torr. and Gray, Fl. N, A., i. 671, (1840). 



P. attcnuata. Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 195, (1834), not 

 Nuttall. 



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Glabrous throughout; stem rather slender, weak, erect, 

 more or less distnictly 4-angled, 6'-- 12' high, in most cases 



