FIELD EUXTIXG. 
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The Indian Pink-root or Worm grass. 
Spigelia marilaxdica, Purscli , FI. Araer., vol. i. p. 139. Fig. 1. of the Plate. — Pen- 
tandria Monogynia, Linn. — Apocine^e, Juss. 
Stem tetragonal, all the leaves opposite, ovate, acuminate. Flowers rich 
carmine, in a terminal spike. This plant is perennial, flowers in the summer 
months, and grows in rich soil by the margins of woods, in the Middle 
States. The roots are used as a vermifuge. 
Phlox aristata, Pursch, FI. Amer., vol. i. p. 130. Fig. 2. of the Plate. — Pen- 
tandria Monogynia, Linn. — Polemonia, Juss. 
This species is characterized by its erect, feeble stem, its linear-lanceolate 
leaves, lax fastigiate panicle, twin pedicels, oboval segments of the corolla, 
pubescent curved tube, and long subulate calycine teeth. The corolla is rose- 
coloured, but varies in tint, being sometimes nearly white, and sometimes 
deep red. It is perennial, flowers in the summer months, and occurs in the 
Middle and Atlantic States. 
FIELD BUNTING. 
Emberiza pusilla, Wils. 
PLATE CLXIY.— Male. 
This diminutive and elegant species of Bunting may certainly be ranked 
among our constant residents, numerous individuals remaining during the 
winter within the limits of the Union. In Louisiana and the countries aloug 
the Mississippi, as far as Kentucky, and in all the Southern States, as far as 
Maryland, they are to be found in the coldest weather. In South Carolina 
they are met with along every hedge-row and in every briar-patch, as well 
as in the old fields slightly covered with tall slender grasses, on the seeds of 
which they chiefly subsist during the inclement season. Loose flocks, some- 
times of forty or fifty, are seen hopping along the sandy roads, picking up 
particles of gravel. On the least alarm, they all take to wing, and alight on 
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