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capsule; crest of keel minute, consisting of a few short, thick 

 processes; stamens eight in number; style minute, cucullatc or 

 auriculate above and on either side of the pedicelled stigma- 

 tic gland, the terminal tufted appendage short, filiform; ma- 

 ture capsule about i'^ long; seeds dark brown, small, clavate 

 or clavate-obovoid, curved, smooth, or slightly hairy at the 

 broader end, papillose, the two caruncle-lobes narrow, oblan- 

 ceolate, j^-^:^ the length of the seed. 



Florida. — Herb. Chapman; 1828, Dr. Leavenworth; near 

 Aspalaga, 1843, Rugel, (type); near Jacksonville, A. H. Cur- 

 tiss, No. 516; Duval Co., 1876, A. H. Curtiss; Gainesville, 1876, 

 Dr. A. P. Garber; ''Sand hills," Herb. Chapman, (dist. as P. 

 attciiiiata. Hook.?). Type in Herb. Col. Coll. 



12. P. VERTiciLLATA, L. Spec. PL J06, (1753). 



Glabrous throughout; stem erect, straight or flexuous, 

 2'-io' high, angled, branched, very variable as to size and 

 habit, short, stout, with spreading branches, or taller, more 

 slender, with branches more or less fastigiate; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate to linear, acute, %^-V long, those of the stem in 

 most cases verticillate in fours or fives, while those upon the 

 branches, and frequently some upon the stem also, are alter- 

 nate; spikes conical, 

 long; peduncles in the short, stout forms short, in the taller 

 forms somewhat elongated; bracts deciduous; flowers green- 

 ish-white, on very short pedicels, wings broadly ovate, about 

 54 ^^ long, not venose, only the mid-vein conspicuous; crest 

 of keel small, made up of several rather short and thick pro- 

 cesses; stamens eight in number; style very short and small, 

 the tufted appendage minute, filiform; the mature capsule 

 about i^' long, apparently much longer than the wungs, w^hich 

 at this stage are not as a rule closely appressed to it but are 



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twisted or refiexed so as to leave the capsule more or less 

 uncovered; seeds small, narrowly obovoid or obovoid-clavate, 

 dark brown, hairy, or in some cases glabrous, the two car- 

 uncle-lobes narrow, collateral or diverging, about half as long 

 as the seed. 





