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Dr. C. Mohr. Mississippi.- — Ocean Springs, 1890, Miss 

 Cath. Skeehan. 



Type in Herb. Col. Coll. 



21. P. NUTTALLIJ. Torn and Gray, Fl. N. A. i. 670, (1840), 



excl. syn. 



P. sanguiuca. Nutt. Genera, ii. 88, (18 18), not L. 



P. ixjnbigua, Torr. and Gray, Fl. N. A. 1. 130, (1838), not 



Nutt. 



Glabrous throughout; stem erect, slender, 4'-9' high, 

 branched, or in some cases simple; leaves alternate, 2'^- 6" 

 long, those on the stem often oblanceolate, the rest linear; 

 spikes more or less cylindrical, often apiculate, 2^^-'^^^ in 

 diameter; bracts persistent; flowers greenish-purple, on very 

 sliort pedicels; wings less than \'^ long, elliptical or obovate- 

 ellipticaK with a short claw, about five-veined, minutely 

 mucronate, the mid-vein thickened at the tip; crest of keel very 

 small, made up of a icw papilloid processes; stamens eight in 

 number; style very small, resembling that of the preceding 

 species; mature capsule very small, shorter than broad; seeds 

 minute, somewhat pear-shaped, dark-brown, hairy, the two 

 caruncle-lobes about ^ the length of the seed, 



Afassac/afsetts. — Martha's Vineyard, 1825, Oakes. Rhode 



Island,— li\\uYhc\-\ 1846, Thurber and Calder; Providence, 



Olney. Nt^iV Voj-k. — Long Island, Cedarhurst, 1886, J. A. 



Bisky. Pefuisjlr'ania. — Lane. Co., New Texas, iS6i, ], J. 



Carter; Chester Co., 1889, Witmcr Stone; Philadelphia. 1844, 



ex. Herb. Dr. G. Watson; Bethlehem, J. Wolle; Franklin 



Co., MercersburiT' ex. Herb. Dr. Traill Green; near Bristol, 



1865, C. ¥. Parker; Delaware Co., Tinicum, 1866, Thos. C. 



Porter; Pike Co., 1870, Thos. C. Porter; Chester Co., 1889, 



T. C. Porter; Lancaster Co., Smithville, 1865, T. C. P. New 



Jersey, — Nuttall, (dist. ixsP. sanguinea), (type); Pine Barrens, 



1834; 1856, Dr. Short; 1861, Herb. Wni. M. Canby; E 



Harbor, 1889, Dr. J. B. Brinton; bet. F^atontown and Me- 



chanicsville, 1865, T. F.Allen; Laurence Station, 1885, Rev. 



J. E. Peters. Dclaivarc, — 1866, Canby; Townsend, 1862, Herb. 



