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1048. Nicandra physaloides, Adan. Naturalized by road 

 sides Providence. Thurber ! 



1049. Sabbatia chloroides, Pursh. Jl. I. p. 137. DC. 

 prodr. IX. p. 50. Banks of Worden pond, South Kings- 

 town ! 



1050. Chenopodium album, Linn. Waste places. 



1051. C. hybridum, Linn. Neglected gardens. 



1052. Salicornia mucronata, Big. Salt marshes, Thur- 

 ber ! Probably different from the Spanish plant of Lagasca of 

 the same name. 



1053. Blitum maritimum, Nutt. Sandy shores, Warwick ! 

 Little Compton ! 



1054. Amaranthus pujiilus, Nutt. Sandy sea shore, Little 

 Compton ! 



1055. Polygonum Careyi, (n. sp.) Stem erect, hirsute, 

 much branched, 3-5 feet high ; leaves lanceolate, 3-6 inches 

 long, half to one inch wide, with scattered appressed hairs 

 particularly on the lower surface, midrib and margins hairy ; 

 stipules scarious, tubular, truncate, hairy ; spikes axillary and 

 terminal, 1-4 inches long, on very long nodding peduncles, 

 thickly beset with glandular hairs ; flowers in fascicles of 2-4, 

 articulated to pedicels longer than the bristly sheathing bracts, 

 the lower fascicles remote ; perianth greenish purple tinged 

 with white, not large nor punctate ; stamens shorter than the 

 perianth ; styles two united at base ; seed slightly compressed, 

 orbicular ovate purplish black, mucronate. 



Borders of woods near Providence ! North Providence ! I 

 detected this in 1844, and distributed it as P. Pennsylvani- 

 cum, from which, however, it essentially differs. My excel- 

 lent correspondent, J. Carey, Esq., writes me that he discov- 

 ered, many years ago, a large patch of this plant in a swamp 

 on Bellows Falls Mountain, N. H. It is also found near Am- 

 herst, Mass., by Prof. Hitchcock, from whom it was sent to 

 that rich collection Herb. Torrey. 



1056. Juglans nigra, Linn. Michx. f. sylv. I. p. 157, t. 1. 

 Paris edit, Smithfield, Mr. E. Flint 



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