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parts are white, the breast marked with small deep brown spots, the sides 

 with long streaks of the same. 



Length 5| inches ; extent of wings 8|; bill along the ridge -^^^ along 

 the gap ^^ ; tarsus 1 §. 



Adult Female. Plate CIX. Fig. % 



The Female resembles the Male, the tints of the plumage being merely 

 a little hghter. 



Length 5| inches ; extent of mngs 8|. 



The Indian Pink-root or Worm-grass. 



Spigelia MAHiLANmcA, Pwsh, Fl. Amer. Sept. vol. i. p. 139 — Pentandria Mono- 

 GYNIA, Linn. Apocyne^, Juss. Fig. 1. of the Plate. 



Stem tetragonal, all the leaves opposite, ovate, acuminate. Peren- 

 nial. This plant grows in damp meadows, along rivulets, and even in 

 the depth of the woods. It is abundant in Kentucky, as well as on the 

 eastern ranges of the Alleghany Mountains, even to the vicinity of the 

 Atlantic. Its rich carmine flowers have no scent. 



Phlox aristata, Mich. Fl. Amer. vol. 1. p. 144 — Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. vol. 1. 



p. 150 Pentakdria Monogynia, Linn. Polemonia, Juss. Fig. 2. of the 



Plate. 

 See vol. i. p. 361. 



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