184 DIADELPH1A OCXANDRIA. 
8. Sanguinea. 
P. caule fastigiatim 
ramoso; foliis lineari- 
bus ; spicis confertis ; 
floribus imberbibus ; 
rachi squarrosa. Nut. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 896. Pliik. Mailt, t. 438. f. 5. Nutt. 2. p. 88. Mich. 
2. p. 32. 
Stem 12—18 inches high, slightly striate, branching near the summit. 
Leaves linear, lanceolate, sessile, alternate. Spikes , with us, generally 
about an inch long. Bracteas persistent. Calycine icings obovate, long- 
er than the capsule, of a bright pink tinged with green. Seeds hairy. 
This plant agrees perfectly with the tigure of Plukenet, and is therefore 
in all probability, as suggested by Mr. Nuttall, the original P. Sanguinea of 
Linnaeus. 
Grows in flat pine barrens, abundantly near Purysburgh. 
Flowers May — July. 
■stem bearing fasti- 
giate branches; leaves 
linear ; spikes crowd- 
ed ; flowers not fim- 
briated; rachis squar- 
rn«p. 
9. Purpurea. Nutt. 
P. caule subfastigi- 
atim ramoso; foliis al- 
ternis, lineari-lanceo- 
latis ; floribus subim- 
bricatis ; spicis cylin- 
dricis, obtusis ; rachi 
squarrosa. Nutt. 2. p. 
88 . 
Stem bearing fas* 
tigiate branches ; 
leaves alternate, lin- 
ear lanceolate; flowers 
somewhat imbricate ; 
spikes cylindrical, ob- 
tuse; rachis squarrose. 
P. Sanguinea. Pursh 2. p. 465. 
Plant much more robust than in the preceding species, and in my spe- 
cimens more irregularly branched, the Leaves much larger, the Spikes 
more compact, the Calycine wings broader and more obtuse, green, ting- 
ed with purple, longer than the capsules. 
Grows throughout the United States. Nutt. 
I have never met with this species in the low country of Carolina, my 
specimens are from Pennsylvania, 
Flowers June— August. 
