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The Indian Pink-root or Worm-grass. 

 Spigelia marilandica, Pursch, Fl. Amer., vol. i. p. 139. Fig - . 1. of the Plate. — Pen- 



TANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Lintl. — ApOCINEiE, JllSS. 



Stem tetragonal, all the leaves opposite, ovate, acuminate. Flowers rich 

 carmine, in a terminal spike. This plant is perennial, flowers in the summer 

 months, and grows in rich soil by the margins of woods, in the Middle 

 States. The roots are used as a vermifuge. 



Phlox aristata, Pursch, Fl. Amer., vol. i. p. 130. Fig. 2. of the Plate.— Pentandria 

 Monogynia, Linn. — Polemonia, Juss. 



This species is characterized by its erect, feeble stem, its linear-lanceolate 

 leaves, lax fastigiate panicle, twin pedicels, oboval segments of the corolla, 

 pubescent curved tube, and long subulate calycine teeth. The corolla is rose- 

 coloured, but varies in tint, being sometimes nearly white, and sometimes 

 deep red. It is perennial, flowers in the summer months, and occurs in the 

 Middle and Atlantic States. 



FIELD BUNTING. 



^-Emreriza pusilla, Wils. 



PLATE CLXIV Male. 



This diminutive and elegant species of Bunting may certainly be ranked 

 among our constant residents, numerous individuals remaining during the 

 winter within the limits of the Union. In Louisiana and the countries along: 

 the Mississippi, as far as Kentucky, and in all the Southern States, as far as 

 Maryland, they are to be found in the coldest weather. In South Carolina 

 they are met with along every hedge-row and in every briar-patch, as well 

 as in the old fields slightly covered with tall slender grasses, on the seeds of 

 which they chiefly subsist during the inclement season. Loose flocks, some- 

 times of forty or fifty, are seen hopping along the sandy roads, picking up 

 particles of gravel. On the least alarm, they all take to wing, and alight on 



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