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In so doing I run a slight risk of creating a synonym, but this 

 risk will doubtless be more than offset by the advantage of hav- 

 ing these tv/o distinct species brought out of the confusion in which 

 they have been involved. 



Omitting characters common to the whole genus Ljidzvigia and 

 to the group with conspicuous petals, to which these species 

 belong, they may be distinguished as follows : 



LuDwiGiA viRGATA Mx. Fl. Bor. Am. I : 89. 1803 



Type locality, "in aridis sylvis * Carolinae inferioris. Maio 

 florens." 



?/,. altcruifolia Walt. Fl. Car. 89. 1788. 



fL.jiincea Raf. Aut. Bot. 38. 1840. Type-locality, "Ala- 

 bama." 



Plant nearly glabrous throughout : branches {&\v, mostly aris- 

 ing from near the base, fastigiate, terete : leaves linear to lance- 

 olate, the upper successively smaller and passing into bracts which 

 usually do not exceed the pedicels : sepals (or calyx-lobes they 

 could just as well be called) 3 or 4 times as long as the ovary, 

 permanently reflexed at anthesis : style twice as long as the sta- 

 mens and a little longer than the sepals, slender at base, dilated 

 above : stigma depressed, 3 or 4 times as broad as the style : cap- 

 sule very slightly winged on the angles. f 



Range and habitat : Normally in rather dry pine-barrens, 

 North Carolina to Florida and Alabama (?), in the coastal plain. 



The following specimens in the collections at the New York 

 Botanical Garden are referable to this species : 



North Carolina: Savannahs near Wilmington, July 2, 1897, 

 collector anonymous (Biltmore Herbarium, no. 4168). 



South Carolina : 9 miles west of Charleston, Aug. 19, 1859, 

 L. R. Gibbcs. 



Georgia : Sand-hills of the Altamaha, Dr. Jones. About 

 Darien Junction, Mcintosh Co., June, 1895, Siitall. Moist jjine- 

 barrens near Collins, Tattnall Co., July 4, 1901, Harper (no. 



999)- 



* Probably meaning <lry i)inc-l).irrens. 



t This description is drawn jirincipally from field-notes made in Chatham County, 

 Georgia, June 13, 1903. The other species, which hajipened to be (growing in the 

 immediate vicinity, was carefully comjiared with it at the same time, and the difler- 

 ences noted on the spot. 



