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some of which are often bifid; stamens eight in number; style 

 much as in the preceding; capsule small; seeds small, dark- 

 brown, densely hairy, pear-shaped or top-shaped, beaked at 

 the smaller, and apiculate at the larger extremity, the two 

 caruncle-lobes minute, obovate, scale-like, about y^ the 

 length of the seed. 



This species was founded upon an abnormal form in which 

 the pedicels are much elongated, making the inflorescence 

 conspicviously racemose. 



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Before this fact was recognized specimens which would now 

 be regarded as typical were referred to var. pycnostacJiya, Gray. 



Pennsylvania. — Bethlehem, 1 840, Mr. Wolle, (dist. as 

 P.Nnffalln.) 



3f(?rj/^7;/f/.~Bladensburg, 1878, Lester F. Ward; Piney 

 rohit, 1874, George Vasey, (dist. as \?ir. pycnostachya')) Cecil 

 Co., near Elkton, 1884, J. J. Carter, F. W. Price. 



D. C— Washington, 1886, H. W. Henshaw; 1874, Dr. 

 Vasey; near Washington, 1878, 1879, Lester F. Ward. ^^^'~ 



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ovinia. — near Alexandria, 1865, Curtiss, (type); Alexandria 



Co., 1884, Lester F. Ward; Noels', 1890, Dr. J 

 Richmond, 1887, Herb. Isaac Burk, (dist. as w^lx. pycnostackya), 



Noi^tJi Carolina, — 1880, Thomas Meehan, T. C. Porter 

 and others, (dist. as var. pycnostacJiya)\ *' Mts." 1878, G. R. 

 Vasey, (dist. as var. pycnostachya)\ ''Western," 1880, Thos. 

 C. Porter, (dist. as v^r. pycnostachya); Marion Co., (Hyams ?); 

 Jackson Co., Wild Cat Ridge, 1882, J. D. Smith, (dist as var. 

 pycnostachya)\ Macon Co., Horse Cove, 1882, J. D.Smith, 



\'7K\\ pycnostachya)\ Transylvania Co., Buck Forest, 



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Henderson Co., 



1876, ex. Herb. VVm. M. Canby; Anson Co., 1884, J. D. 



Smith; Rowan Co., 1890, A. A. Heller; Black Mt. Station, 



1S85, Dr- and Mrs. N. L. Britton; Blue Rid^re, 184T, Gray 

 and Care3^ 



South Carolina. — Caesar's Head, 1876, Herb. Wm. M. 

 Canby, i88i,J. D. Smith, (dist. as var./jr;/^^V^?r//j^); " Mts. 

 of Carolina and Georgia/' 1867, A. Gray. 



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