73° FLORA, 



the uppermost reduced to narrow bracts; flowers in bracteolate corymbed cymes-, 

 pedicels 4-14 mm. long; calyx-lobes filiform-linear, much shorter than the corolla; 

 corolla-segments oblong or slightly obovate; capsule ovoid, about 6 mm. high. 

 In pine-barren swamps, N. J. to Fla. May -Sept. 



2. Sabbatia paniculata (Michx. ) Pursh. Branching Sabbatia. (I. F. f. 

 2856.) Stem 4-angled, 3-7.5 dm. high. Leaves 1-4 cm. long, the uppermost 

 small and bract-like; flowers in corymbed cymes; central flowers of the cymes 

 often nearly sessile; calyx-lobes linear, not more than one half the length of the 

 corolla; corolla-segments spatulate-oblong; capsule oblong, about 6 mm. high. In 

 dry or moist soil, Va. to Fla. May-Sept. 



3. Sabbatia angustifjlia (Michx.) Britton. Narrow-leaved Sabbatia. 

 (I. F. f. 2857.) Stem 3-6 dm. high. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, sessile, 

 2-5 cm. long, the uppermost small and bract-like; flowers pink with a yellowish 

 or greenish eye, few in the cymes, or solitary, about 2.5 cm. broad; calyx-lobes 

 linear, usually more than one-half the length of the corolla; corolla-segments 

 obovate-oblong ; capsule oblong, 6S mm. high. In dry or moist soil, Ind. to La., 

 N. Car. and Fla. May-Sept. [S. brachiata Ell.] 



4. Sabbatia angularis (L.) Pursh. Bitter-bloom. Rose-pink. Square- 

 stemmed Sabbatia. (I. F. f. 2858.) Stem 6-9 dm. high. Leaves ovate, acute, 

 cordate-clasping at the base, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, or the lower oblong, those of the 

 branches smaller; flowers rose-pink, with a central greenish star, occasionally 

 white, 2.5-4 cm. broad, usually solitary at the ends of the branches; calyx-lobes 

 linear, one-half the length of the corolla, or less; corolla-segments obovate; capsule 

 oblong, about 6 mm. high. In rich soil, N. Y. and Penn. to Ont., Mich., Fla., the 

 Ind. Terr, and La. July-Aug. Flowers fragrant. 



5. Sabbatia calycina (Lam.) Heller. Coast Sabbatia. (I. F. f. 2859.) 

 Stem 1.5-3 dm. high* Leaves oblong or some of them slightly obovate, 3-nerved, 

 2-5 cm. long, narrowed to the sessile base or the lower into petioles; flowers soli- 

 tary at the ends of the branches or peduncles, 2.5-4 cm. broad; calyx-lobes linear 

 or spatulate, leaf-like, longer than the spatulate segments of the pink rose-purple 

 or whitish corolla; capsule ovoid-oblong, 6-8 mm. high. In moist soil, Va. to Fla. 

 Also in Cuba. June-Aug. 



6. Sabbatia campestris Nutt. Prairie Sabbatia. (I. F. f. 2860.) Stem 

 1.5-4 dm. high. Leaves ovate, oblong or lanceolate, mostly obtuse, sessile or 

 slightly clasping and subcordate, 1-2.5 cm - hong; flowers solitary at the ends of the 

 branches and peduncles, 2-5 cm. broad; calyx 5 -ribbed or almost 5 -winged, its 

 lobes lanceolate, acute, 1-2.5 cm - '°ng, about as long as the obovate lilac 

 corolla-segments; capsule oblong, 6-8 mm. high. On prairies, Mo. and Kans. to 

 Tex. 



7. Sabbatia stellaris Pursh. Sea or Marsh Pink. (I. F. f. 2861.) Stem 

 1.5-6 dm. high. Leaves lanceolate-oblong to linear, sessile, 1-2.5 cm. long, or the 

 lowest smaller, somewhat obovate, the uppermost narrowly linear and bract-like; 

 flowers 1.5-3.5 cm. broad, solitary at the ends of the branches or slender peduncles; 

 calyx not ribbed, its lobes narrowly linear, shorter than or nearly equalling the 

 oblong or obovate corolla-segments; corolla pink to white with a yellowish starry 

 eye bordered with red; capsule about 5 mm. high. In salt-meadows. Me. to Fla. 

 July- Sept. 



8. Sabbatia Elliottii Steud. Elliott's Sabbatia. (I. F. f. 2862.) Stem 

 3-6 dm. high. Lower leaves obovate or lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, 1-2 cm. long, 

 the upper and those of the branches linear or subulate; flowers solitary at the ends 

 of the branches, 2.5 cm. broad or less; calyx not ribbed, its lobes subulate-linear, 

 one-half as long as the spatulate or oblanceolate segments of the corolla, or less; 

 capsule about 5 mm. high. In pine-barrens, Va. (?), N. Car. to Fla. July-Sept. 



9. Sabbatia campanulata (L.) Torr. SLENDER Marsh Pink. (I. F. f. 

 2863.) Similar to the preceding. Stem 3-6 dm. high. Leaves linear or linear- 

 lanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, sessile, acute or the lowest much shorter, obtuse, oblong 

 or oblanceolate, the uppermost almost filiform; flowers pink with a yellow eye, 

 about 2.5 cm. broad, mostly 5 parted; calyx-lobes filiform-linear, equalling the 

 oblong-oboyate corolla-segments, or somewhat shorter; capsule obovoid, about 5 

 mm. high. In salt marshes and along brackish rivers, rarely in fresh-water swamps 

 eastern Mass. to Fla. and La. Also in Cuba. May-Aug. [S. gracilis Salish.J 



