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D. Armeria, L. (Deptrorp Pinx.) » Annual, 1-2 feet high, 
covered with a fine grayish pubescence: stems branching and bearing , 
several 2—4-flowered fascicles: bracts subulate, attenuate, villous: 
flowers scentless: calyx slender, tubular, 7-8 lines long, the teeth 
very sharp: petals roseate, spotted with white; the blade elliptical, 
crenate-dentate. — Spec. 410; Pursh, Fl. 314; Bigel. Fl. Bost. 108 ; 
Torr. Fl. N. & Mid. St. 447; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 195. D. arme- 
rotdes, Raf. in Desv. Journ. Bot. 1814, 269; Précis des Decouv. 36. 
Atocion armerioides, Raf. Autikon Bot. 29. D. Carolinianus, Walt. 
Car. 140, referred here by Sprengel, Syst. ii. 375, was without 
doubt founded upon error. Torrey & Gray, Fl. i. 676, state that 
Walter’s own specimen was Dodeécatheon Meadia. — Fields and pine 
woods, Eastern States from Maine (Portland Catalogue) to Maryland ; 
Lansing, Michigan, Z. H. Bailey; fl. June and July. Autumnal flow- 
ers in October noted by LZ. F. Ward. 
+ + + Bractlets broad, scarious, concealing the calyx. 
D. protirer, L. Annual, a foot or two in height: stems wiry: 
leaves narrow, minutely scabrous, acute: heads terminal, 2—several- 
flowered, enclosed in thin dry ovate obtusish mucronate imbricated 
bractlets: flowers expanding one at a time, ephemeral : calyx tubular ; 
the veins faint, collected into five groups: petals small, notched, pink 
or red. — Spec. 410; Eng. Bot. xiv. t. 956. Tunica prolifera, Scop. 
Fl. Carn. ed. 2, i. 299. — New Jersey, Durand; Eastern Pennsylvania, 
Smith, Porter ; Suffolk Co., N. ¥., Hollick ; fl. all summer. This spe- 
cies, especially in its calyx, forms a transition to the next genus. : 
NICA, Scop. (Tunica, a tunic, probably in reference to 
the close involucre.) Slender wiry-stemmed herbs with small mostly 
linear leaves. Flowers terminal, solitary or fascicled in small heads. 
— Fl. Carn. ed. 2, i. 298; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 145; Williams, 
Journ. of Bot. xix. 193 (1890). — Old World plants represented in 
America by a single species recently introduced. 
T. sAxtrRAGA, Scop. Smooth: stems numerous, slender, branching, 
curved ascending: leaves small, linear, acute, less than half a line in 
width : the lower internodes very short: flowers small, numerous, ter- 
minal, solitary : bractlets 2 pairs, scarious except in the middle, acute, 
considerably shorter than the calyx: petals notched, pale purple; the 
blade a line in length. — Scop. 1. ¢. i. 300; Reichb. Icon. Fl. Germ. vi. 
t. 246. — Roadsides near London, Ontario, Burgess. (Adventive from — 
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3. GYPSOPHILA, L. (yéWos, gypsum, and ¢uAX¢iv, to love, 
from a supposed preference for soil rich in gypsum.) — Old World 
