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Virginia, — Portsmouth, Rugel. 



North Carolina. — Herb. Phil, Acad. Nat. Sciences; Ro- 

 wan Co., 1890, A. A. Heller. Soutli 6'^7/W//ifrt'.—Santee Canal, 

 H. W. Ravenel; Florence, 1878, Herb. Wm. M. Canby; near 

 Society Hill, 1884, J. D. Smith. Georgia, — Taylor Co., 1876, 

 H. N. Neisler, Florida, — Chapman; Hibernia, 1869, Wm. M. 

 Canby; Picolata, 1858, Wm. M. Canby; St. Aujjustine, 1876, 

 Dr. A. P. Garber; Apalachicola, 1867, Dr. Saurman. Alabama. 

 — Selma, Dr. Cahill. Louisiana.- — Hale; New Orleans, 1833, 



**conim, Drummond;" (West), Chateigner, 1885, A. B. Lan- 

 glois; (West), Atakopus, in prairies, 1885, A. B. Langlois; 

 (East), in phie barrens, 1885, A. 'B, Langlois; (East), 



St Tammatiy Co., 18S5, A. B. Langlois, No. 13. Texas. — 



Mr. Charles Wright. 



Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. N. L. B. 



20. P. Chapmaxtt, Torr. and Gray, Fl. N. A.i. T31, (1838). 



Glabrous throughout; stem erect, slender, l^-iS' high, 

 simple, or at length sparingly fastigiately branched; leaves 

 alternate, acicular, 2^'-^'' long; spikes long-ovoid, apiculate, 

 3'''-4''' in diameter, or the younger ones short, almost conical; 

 bracts persistent; flowers bright rose-color, or purplish, on 

 pedicels almost i'^ long; wings ovate or elliptical, minutely 

 mucronate, nearly i^'-" long, about nine-veined, the mid-vein 

 thickened at the extreme tip; crest of keel consisting of a few, 

 in some cases only two, minute papilloid processes; stamens 

 eight in number; style small, minutely auriculate near the 

 middle, above and on either side of the almost sessile stigma- 

 tic gland, the tufted appendage curved; capsule small, short; 

 seeds small, short, pear-shaped, almost black, minutely 

 beaked, furnished with an abundance of pale, curved hairs; the 

 two caruncle-lobes small, short and broad, \-S~% ^^^^ length 

 of the seed, and straddling its beak. 



Florida. — Chapman; Walton Co., A. H. Curtiss, No, 508; 

 West Florida, Herb. Torrey. 



Alabama.—^lohW^Co,, 18S5, Dr, C. Mohr; Mobile, 1S7S, 





