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Apalachicola, 1867, Dr. Saurman. Alabama, — Conecuh Co., 

 near Evergreen, 1884, J. D. Smith. Mississippi. — Ocean 

 Springs, 1890, Miss Skeehan. Louisiana. — New Orleans, 1832, 

 Drummond. Texas. — 1843, Lindheimer, No. I2, Chas. 

 Wright; Washington Co., Miss Hobart; Hempstead, 1872, 

 Elihu Hall, No, 93; Dallas, i88r, J. Reverchon. Kansas. — 

 Miami Co., 1888, Dr. J. H. Oyster. Arkansas, — Dr. Leaven- 

 worth; Grand Prairie, 1883, F. L. Harvey, No. 3. Kentucky. 

 —1842, Dr. C. W. Short; -Barrens," 1835, Dr. Short ////- 

 nois, — 1852, S. B, Mead; Augusta, 1842, S. B. Mead; Beards- 

 town, 1842, Geyer; ** Prairies," J. L. Darlington. 



A form slender, almost leafless, with white flowers. Flor- 

 ida. — Rosewood. 1876, Dr. A. P. Garber. 



A form stout and almost leafless, Florida. — St. George's 

 Island, Herb. Chapman, (dist. as P. inearnata, van); *' Apa. 

 sea-shores." Perhaps identical with "' P. panieulata, herb. Le 

 Conte," Torr. and Gray Flora, i. 129.. 



Type in Herb. Linn. Specimens from Kalm. N. L, B. 



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15. P, SETACEA, Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. ii. 52, (1803). 



Glabrous throughout; stem single, or two or three from 

 the same base, slender, erect, strai^-ht, or somewiiat flexuous. 



6'- 18' high, simple, or sparingly branched; leaves represented 

 by mere scales; spikes ovoid-conical, compact, 4''-9'^ ^ong, 

 2'''-3''' in diameter; bracts deciduous; flowers pale-pink or 

 whitish, almost sessile; wings about I'Mong, narrowly obo- 

 vate, hardly mucronate; crest of keel small, consisting of a 

 few short processes.; stamens six in number; style short, min- 

 utely auriculate in the middle on either side of the rather long- 

 pedicelled stigmeitic gland and terminating above in a short, 

 curved, tufted appendage; capsule small; seeds small, ovoid, 



hairy, the two caruncle-lobes much as in the preceding 

 species. 



Florida, — Dr. Chapman, No, 90 ; Dr. Leavenworth; 1875, 

 1877, 1878, Mary C. Reynolds; Apalachicola, Chapman; 1867, 

 Dr. B. F, Saurman; near Jacksonville, A H Curtiss, No. 525; 



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