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gland and terminating above in a short, curved, tufted appen- 

 dage; mature capsule I >^ '''-2'' long; seeds obovoid, curved, 

 very hairy, the two caruncle-lobes broad, often overlapping 



one another, }4-^i the length of the seed, or, in some cases, 

 lonq"er. 



Georgia, — 1830, Boykin, (type); 1835, ^^ Short; Mon- 

 ticello Co., 1846. Florida,— Tix. Chapman. A. P. Garber; 

 Aspalaga, Herb. Chapman; near Chattahoochee, A. H. Cur- 



tiss, No. 605, (or 506) ?; near Appalachicola, ex Herb. C. 



r; Pine Key, M 



Dr. A. P. 



Garber; '* Florida and Alabama," 1833, Rugel. Alabama. — 

 Mr. Buckley; 1.855. Hatch; Ashcville, 1878, G. R, Vasey, No. 

 85; Tuscaloosa, 1883, C. Mohr; Perry Co., 1885, J. D. Smith; 

 near Blount Springs, 1884. J. D. Smith; Blount Co., 1884, J. 

 D. Smith, (the axis of inflorescence marked with the scars of 

 fallen bracts for a distance of six inches.) Mississippi. — 

 '*Lake," S. M. Tracy; Brookhaven, 1882, Miss M. B. Flint. 



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Lonisiana. — New Orleans, 1833, Drummond, No. "^6, 



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

 Var. SPARSIFOLIA, n. var. 



iio_20 high; branching irregularly, leaves small, 2'^- 

 6'^ long, about \^^ broad, cuspidate, few, scattered, alternate, 

 the lowest of all in some cases verticiHate. 



Sout/i Florida. — Cudjoe Key, (coral soil), A. H. Curtiss, 

 No. 503,^ (dist. as p. ambigna, Nutt. var.) 



T}'pe in Herb. Col. Coll. 



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II. P. LEPTOSTACIIVS, Shuttl. in A. Cray's PI. Wright. 1.41, 



(1852). 



Glabrous throughout; stem usually single, erect, straight 

 or slightly curved, slender, i^-i^^^ high, simple or" with 



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one or two filiform branches near the summit; stem-leaves 

 verticil late in fours or fives, subulate-linear or acicular, 2'^-8" 

 long, the whorls far apart, few; spikes narrowly conical, V- 

 2'' in diameter at the base, about &' long, or becoming longer 



later; bracts deciduous; flowers greenish, almost sessile, 

 wings oval, obtuse. less than \'' long, shorter than the mature 



