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form, anther round, seeds ovate lenticular.— 
Let it be remembered that these discoveries of 
Kin and Baldwin had been made 20 and 30 
years ago, laying dormant like those of Bar- 
tram in herbais. 
POLYGONUM and akin Genera. 
This Genus the shame of botanists as be- 
longingto 10 linnean classes ! was illustrated in 
my flora tellur. 401 to 434. I have described 
there many N. Amer. sp. and the new Genera 
Tracaulon , Spermaulaxen , Stopinaca , Ante- 
noron , Tovara , Pleurostena , Chulusium , 
Peutalis Sac. 1 shall merely add some other 
remarkable new species formerly included in 
Polygonum and Rumex divided also in 7 Gen- 
era 576 to 582 fl. Tellur. Having in my herbal 
about 100 sp. of these G. akin and reformed, I 
may yet revise the whole. 
848 . Peutalis or Mxtesia ligularis Raf. 
smooth filiform, leaves lanceolate acute, sessile 
sheaths simple obsolete, racemes axil, and ter- 
minal filiform pauciflore,flowers remote, sheaths 
tubular ligulate obtuse equal to pedicels. — A 
curious little species, half pedal, deemed Polyg . 
mite by Collins, very different, leaves few uncial 
quite smooth, racemes with 3 to 7 flowers, each 
out of a singular sheath, calix incarnate 5lobed 
seeds lenticular. Apalachian Mts. of Carolina, 
Iron Mts. found by Lyons ? Mitesia' may be a., 
subg. of Peutalis, this appears a Peutalis by 
seed, I cant count the stamens usualy 6 in Peu- 
talis and Mitesia, but with 3 styles and trigone 
seeds in Mitesia. 
849. Peutalis or Mitesia floridana Raf. 
Polyg. N. sp. Baldw. smooth erect simple, leaves 
sessile narrow lanceolate nearly obtuse margin 
rough, sheaths tubular bristly, flowers in a sin- 
