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NORTH AMERICAN 
monly sterile, 5 shorter with oblong anthers bi- 
locular. Pistil subsessile, style lateral longer 
than stamens, stigma obtuse hairy, pod subses- 
sile oblong turgid obtuse mucronate on one side 
black and smooth polysperm, seeds small reni- 
form shining rattling. Habit as above slated . 
346. Grot, or loc, linearis Raf. C. sagit. 
var. linearis Mx. smooth virgate erect, leaves 
linear elongate sessile ucute stipules linear 
erect hardly decurrent ; peduncles elongate tri- 
flore, bracts and calyx linear lanceolate cilio- 
late, pods subterete — from Carolina to Louisi- 
ana, received from Alabama, annual, estival, 
stem erect slender pedal, leaves long narrow, 
2 or 3 inches long, stipules well marked, pe- 
duncles very long 4 or 5 inches, with 1 or 2 
bracts in the middle, flowers small near togeth- 
er. Pods longer and narrower than in the 
others, nearly terete oblong quite black. 
347. Crot. or loc. longipes Raf. sagittalis ? 
Dec. smooth assurgent, stem well winged, leaves 
sessile narrow lanceolate acute, stipules lanceo- 
late erect foliose decurrent, peduncles very 
long incurved biflore, bracts and calix linear 
lanceolate hispid— sent me from Alabama, 
large bipedal, leaves 3 or 4 inches long, half 
inch broad, stipules large uncial, peduncles 6 
to 8 inches long, with a bract in the middle, 
flowers small, pods not seen. 
348. Crot. or loc. pilosa Raf. parviflora 
Roth Dec. P. El. &/ c. exch syn. Mx. non par- 
vifl. Thunberg. W. 8m — erect ramose, pilose 
hirsute, leaves subsessile oblong lanceoh ciliate 
mucronate. stipules short irregular subdecur- 
rent, peduncles short subracemose 3-5flore, 
bracts and calix ciliate linear lanceoh pods tur- 
gid oblong— from Pensylv. and New Jersey to 
