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sanguinea. 
yerticillata, 
ambigur 
DIADELPHIA, OCTANDRIA. 
3. P. stem fastigiately branched ; leaves alternate, 
narrow-linear; flowers beardless, disposed in 
long and crowded spikes; rachis squarrose ; 
calicine wings obovate, the length of the capsule. 
—Nuit. 7 
P. sanguinea, L., not of Mich. and Pursh. 
Pluk. Mant. 153. t. 438. f. 5. 
A smaller plant than No. 2. Leaves narrow, short; spikes 
becoming finally, two or three inches long. Flowers dark 
red, mingled with yellow and green. In the woods near Wood- 
bury, Jersey; not uncommon. Annual. July, August. 
4. P. leaves verticillate, linear and remote ; fiow- 
ers cristate, greenish; calicine wings roundish, 
nearly veinless, and shorter than the fruit to 
which they are appressed; spikes pedunculate, 
subacute ; bractes deciduous; stem erect and 
branched.— Nutt. 
Icon. Pluk. Mant. t. 438. f, 4. 
From six to twelve inches high, very much branched. Flow- 
ers small, white and pale-red. In open woods, common. An- 
nual. June, August. 
5. P. first leaves verticillate, linear, the rest al- 
ternate ; stem virgately branched ; spikes acute, 
upon very long peduncles; flowers cristate, pur- 
plish; calicine wings round and venose, equal 
with the fruit to which they are appressed ; 
bractes deciduous.—Vutt. 
P. ambigua, Nutt. 
Hitherto confounded with No. 4, which it closely resem- 
bles. In woods, road-sides and the borders of cultivated fields; 
not uncommon. Annual. July, August. 


