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bractes minute, siliques linear, thrice as long as 
the peduncle.—Pers. 
Fumaria sempervirens, Willd. 
Icon. Bot. Mag. 179. 
On the banks of the Schuylkill above the falls; and on the 
oe above Langstroth’s Mills; rare. Annual or Bien- 
nial. 
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ORDER IL.—OCTANDRIA. 
S11. POLYGALA. Gen. pl. 115. (Pediculares.) 
Calix 5-leaved; 2 of the leaves in the form 
of wings, and coloured. Capsule obcor- 
date, 2-celled, 2-valved.—WVutt. 
1. P. stem simple or branched ;_ lower and radi- lutea. 
cal leaves spathulate, the rest lanceolate ; spike 
cylindrical-capitate, crowded with flowers, pe- 
dunculated.— Willd. and Pursh. 
Icon. Pluk. amalth. t. 438. f. 6. 
Fellow-flowered Milk-wort. 
About ten or twelve inches high. Flower-heads yellow. In 
bogs near Haddonfield, Jersey. Rare. 
2. P. stem fastigiately branched ; leaves alter- purpurea, 
nate, oblong-linear; flowers beardless, imbri- 
cated in obtuse cylindric spikes; rachis squar- 
rose; wings of the calix cordate-ovate, erect, 
twice as long as the capsule.—WVutt. 
P. purpurea, Nutt. 
P. sanguinea, Mich. and Pursh. 
P. sanguinea, Bart. Prod. Fl. Ph. 
From three to ten inches high. Flowers reddish-purple, 
in terminal oblong-oval capituli. In the boggy grounds of 
the Woodlands ; abundant. In low grounds and fields of Jersey ; ¢ 
common. This plant has been considered the real P. san- 
guinea of L., but according to Mr. Nuttall it differs specifi- 
cally. Annual. July, August. 
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