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27- P. PAUCIFOLIA, Willd. Spec. PI. iii. part 2, 880, (1800). 



ifloi 

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Glabrous below; stems usually several. 2'-8' high, slen- 

 der, erect or ascendiny^, striate, in most cases simple, arising 

 from slender, creeping, often subterranean stems Avhich often 

 bear inconspicuous but fertile flowers; leaves alternate, all 

 except the uppermost scattered, i'^-5" long, the smallest bract- 

 like; the uppermost ^-6 in number, clustered at the summits 

 of the stems, ovate, oval or elliptical, acute, sometimes mu- 



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long, the 



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upper portions of the stems, also the petioles, mid-veins and 

 margins of the- leaves often puberulent; flow ers rose-purple, 

 or, in forma alba, white, large, 6"-9" long, showy, 1-4, axil- 



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lary, but apparently in a terminal cluster, pedicels 5'^-6'^ Ion 

 wings obovate, attenuate at the base, venose, rather more than 



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' long, almost as long as the corolla; lateral petals oblong, 

 conca\x^; crest of keel conspicuous, fimbriate; stamens six in 

 number; style long, enlarging slightly from below upwards, 

 not cucullate or auriculate, without appendage, curved toAvard 

 the tip which is slightly dilated and its margin denticulate^ 

 glabrous; mature capsule glabrous, compressed, somewhat 



circular in outline and retuse, or obcordate, about 3" long; 

 seeds hairy, caruncle-lobes two or three, subulate, \i\ some 



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cases lonirer than the seed. 



Canada. — Lake Winnipeg Valley, 1837, Bourgeau; On- 

 tario, near Trenton, 1870, Macoun; Missinaibi River, 1887. A. 



P. Low; New Brunswick, St. Stephen, i88r, Vroom; Ottawa 

 Valley, Chalk River, 1884, Macoun. 



J/^/;^,'._Raymond, J. Blake; Mt. Desert Island, 18SS, 

 Greenleaf, Lane and Rand; Orono, 1890, M. L. Fernald. 

 Nexv Havtpshirt\ — North Conway, 1 874, Morong ; Centre 



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Co,, 1863, 1864, J 



Blake; Wilton, 1889, E. G. Britton. Vermont, — Miss liap- 

 good. Massachusetis, — H. Little; Westfield, Mr. Scott; Man- 



