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Curtis^s Enumeration of 

 cannot but believe them t 



them the same. It is 

 doubtless the Wendlandia of Pursh, and I presume of the 

 Encyclopedie Methodique. 



- The miniature figure of Wendlandia sine fl. in Lou- 

 don's Encyclopedia represents our plant ; also, Catesby 

 Tab. 51. in fruit. He remarks that ^'it bears red berries 

 about the bigness of small peas^ which grow in clusters." 



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noticed as separating this plant from L. hyssopiftMiuni, 

 (L. lanceolatum, Ell!) I observe, in all my specimens of 

 the latter, that its peduncles are adnate to the stem as far 

 as the bracteasj making them supra-axillary, which is not 



the case in L. lineare. 



(6) Rhexia angiistifoJia. Agrees minutely with a 

 specimen collected at Savannah, Ga. sine fl. In plants 

 collected at Wilmington the flowers are red. 



(7) CrotaUaria parvijlora. A variety of C. sagittalis 1 

 In Pursh's descriptions of these plants the only difference 

 is in the leaves and stipules, both of which are very 

 variable, even in the same individual. In one of my 

 specimens, which I call C. parviflora, some of the leaves 

 are 3 inches long and 1-2 lines wide, others 2 inches 

 long and 4 lines wide, the stipules half an inch long. 

 They vary also in pubescence. I have never seen a 

 specimen so hirsute as represented in Plukenet, Tab. 

 169, f. 6j referred to by Linnaeus under C. sagittalis. 



C. Iffivigatum, PA. C. Purshii D. C. (Pluk. T. 277, 

 f. 2, also referred to by Linnaeus under C. sagittahs) is 

 probably no more than a smooth variety of the same. 

 Its only distinguishing characters are " ^/o&row^'^ and 



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(8) Galactia MacreeL Stem twining, slender, pubes- 



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