DIADELPHIA 0CTANDR1A. 1BJ 
eulatis, deraurn pendu- duncles, finally pendu- 
lis. ' Ions, 
Nutt. 2. p. 87* 
P. Senega, var. rosea. Mich. 2. p. 53. 
1 — var. b. Pursh 2. p. 465. 
Root perennial. Stem herbaceous, 8 12 inches high, with virgate 
branches. Leaves alternate, on short petioles, strongly veined, soft and pu- 
bescent. Peduncles 2 — 4 lines long. Bracteas minute, deciduous. Up- 
per leaves of the calyx very small with glandular fringe, calycine wings 
laro-e, veined, persistent, at first tinged with pink, when old entirely green. 
Corolla rose coloured. Vexillum 0 ? Carina three lobed, hairy at base, 
the intermediate lobe compressed, enclosing the germ, yellow and slightly 
tuberculated at the summit. Stamens 8, monadelphous, very short. An- 
thers 1 -celled. Style long, bearded at the summit. Stigma obtuse. Per 
ricarp oblong, slightly winged, pendulous. Seeds solitary, one in each 
cell, hispid. T , rT , 1 
This is probably the P. Viridescens of Walter. The erect capsules as? 
cribed by Walter to that species is the only point in which they appear to 
differ. 
Grows in dry soils, very common. 
Flowers from May to August. 
3. PoLYGAMA. 
Stem branching ' 
from the base ; leaves 
narrow, cuneate, lan- 
ceolate; terminal ra- 
cemes bearing a co- 
rolla, those of the 
root without petals 
and prostrate. 
Walt. p. 179- Pursh 2. p. 465. Nutt. 2. p. 75. 
Root fibrous, perennial. Stem about a foot high, branching at the ve- 
ry base, glabrous, angled, almost winged by the decurrent leaf. Leaves 
sessile, glabrous, with the margins rough, the lower ones almost obovate. 
The Flowers on peduncles % lines long. Brqctea as long as the pedun- 
cle, deciduous. Stipules 2, setaceous, persistent, the calycine wings at 
first bright purple, after flowering becoming green. Keel of the corolla 
3-lobed, intermediate lobe fimbriated at the summit. Stamens very short, 
7 — 8. Style short. Stigma 2-lobed, with a globular plumose gland, at- 
tached to the upper lip. Pericarp pendulous when mature. Seed hairy. 
Jr. caule a basi ra- 
moso ; foliis angustis, 
cuneato-lanceolatis;ra- 
cemis terminalibus 
corollatis, radicalibus 
apetalis humistratis. 
