131 



Carthy; 1846, ex. Herb. T. C. Porter. A /adama.— Blount Co., 

 1884, J. D. Smith. Tcwu'ssce.— 1 8S0, A. Gattinger; Chil- 

 howee Mt., A. H. Curtiss, No. 523. (dist. as P. sanguinca, L.); 

 Grain<,ver Co., Clinch Mt., 1880, J. D. Smith, (dist. as var. 

 pycnostachya). Koitucky. — 1840. Dr. C. W. Short, (dist. as 

 P. purpurea); Licking River Hills, Short; iMudlick, C. W. 

 Short, (dist. as P. purpurea) ; Road to Red River, Dr. Short. 



Type In Herb. Gray. 



19. P. Mariana, Mill. Gard. Diet. No. 6, (1768). 



P.fastigiata, Nutt. Genera, ii. 89, (1818). 



P. sanguinca, Torr. and Gray, FL i. 126, (1838), excl. syn. 



Glabrous throughout; erect, or ascending and flexuous, 

 slender, or in some cases moderately stout, 6'- 18' high, simple, 

 or branched above; the branches often conspicuously over- 

 topping the stem, in some cases fastigiate; leaves alternate, 

 linear, 2"-8'^ long, acute or almost cuspidate, often rather erect, 

 the upper ones upon the branches in many cases very small, 

 subulate and appressed; spikes ovoid orglabose, 3"-5^' in dia- 

 meter; bracts deciduous; flowers rose-color, pedicels some- 

 times as long as i}^^^; wings ovate or elliptical, almost 2'^ long, 

 about five-veined, mid-vein thickened and conspicuous at the 

 tip; crest of keel consisting of a few short, blunt processes 



r I 



which are often bifid; stamens eight in number; style rather 

 long and slender, minutely auriculate above tlie middle, above 

 and on either side of the almost sessile stigmatic gland, the 

 tufted appendage curved; capsule small;, seeds small, pear- 

 shaped with rather a long neck, slightly curved, minutely api- 

 culate at the larger extremity, dark-brown, hairy, the two 

 caruncle-lobes short and broad, embracing the smaller extrem- 



itv of the seed. 



Delmvarc. — Townsend, 1 86 1, Herb. Canby; Felton, 1867, 

 Herb. Wm. M. Canby, 1874, Wm. M. Canby; Sussex Co., 



Ellendale, 1875, Herb. Wm. M. Canby. 



Maryland. — Near Bladensburg, 1884, Lester F. Ward; 

 Stockton, 1889, H. H. Rusby. D, C. — Near Washington, 

 1876, J. W. Chickering, Jr, 



