crest consisting of several very minute processes. Style slender a little di-
m i m, i ™lddl.e » appendage conspicuously bearded: gland sessile. Seed
black; the lobes of the caruncle scarcely one-fifth the length of the seed.
20. P. polygama .(Walt.) : terminal racemes spiciform, loose, the flowers
at length pendulous; wings broadly obovate, spreading, longer than the corolla
; crest conspicuous; radical racemes with wingless flowers; capsule
oblong, emarginate ; lobes of the caruncle more than half as long as the verv
hairy seed; stems numerous, assurgent; leaves oblong and oblong-linear—
Walt Car. p. 179; Nutt. gen. 2. p. 75; Ell, sk. 2 .p. 181; DC?prodr' 1.
£ 330 \ Hook ft. Bor.-Am. 1 p 86. t. 29. P. rubella, Willd. sp. 3. p. 875 ;
Bigel. fi. Bost. p. 264, med. bot. t. 54; DC. 1. c. 1
Dry sandy fields and woods, Canada! to Florida! and Louisiana! June-
July (2) stems 5-10 mches high. Leaves an inch long, mucronate Terminal
racemes 6-15-flowered: pedicels slender: flowers larger than in P
purpurea, deep rose-eolor or purplish. Wings with short claws. Processes’
ot the crest lacimate. Style short cueullate: gland exserted : appendage
strongly bearded. Radical racemes leafless, prostrate, often subterranean.
§ 5 . Racemes loose: keel not cristate: upper h a lf o f the filaments unconnected:
style slender, without lobes: caruncle helmet-shaped, without
appendages.
2L P- grandiflora (Walt.): pubescent; raceme elongated, the flowers
distant; pedicels recurved after flowering; wings roundish (large) covering
the corolla and fruit; keel large, cucullate, connected with the lateral petals
and filaments only at the base; stem ascending; leaves ovate-lanceolate,
ciholate.— Walt. Car. p. 179. P. pubescens, Mvhl cat. p. 66 ; Nutt sen
2 p 87; Ell. sk. 2. p. 180; DC. prodr. 1. p. 330. P. Sraega, Var msea
Michx.! fl. 2. p. 53; Pursh, ft. 2 p. 465. P. Senega, A. S L IIil. & Moq-
Tand. m mem. mus. 17. t. 27. f 17, l. 28. ƒ. 10. ^ 1
Dry soils, South Carolina! to Florida and Louisiana! May-Aug._-If
Root thick, tortuous. Stem about a foot high, simple or virgately branched.
Leaves 1-1J inch long, 3-4 lines broad, tapering at each end. Raceme 12-
18-nowered; the lowest flowers usually remote: pedicels 2-4 lines long
1 he 2 inferior sepals united except at the summit. Wings one-fourth of an
inch in diameter, at first deep rose-color, afterwards green. Lateral petals
much shorter than the keel, dilated above, waved, bright rose-color: keel with
a mere caflosity at the apex instead of a crest. Filaments monad elphous ;
straight and unconnected above. • Style a little dilated and tubular in the
middle; the upper part curved, bearded on the under side below the glandular
summit. Capsule oblong-obovate, emarginate, glabrous. Seed silky-villous.
Caruncle about one-fifth as long as the seed, laterally compressed.—
This most remarkable of all the N. American Polygala:, and the only one
destitute of a crest, resembles P. brizoides, St. Hid. Michaux strangely
considered it a variety of P. Senega; and St. Hilaire & Moquin-Tandon
have fallen into the same mistake, having figured the flowers and seed of
tins species irom Michaux’s specimen.
§ 6. Flowers few, large, terminal: posterior sepal concave-cucullate,
with a gland at the base on the inside: keel cristate or callous at the
apex. (C hamjebuxus, Dill.) .
. 22\ p -paucifolia (Willd.): rhizomacreeping and branching, throwing up
simple erect branches, leafy at the summit; leaves ovate, petioled; terminal
flowers 2 -3 ; crest fimbriate; radical flowers wingless.— Willd. sp. 3. p. 880;
Bart. fl. Amer.-Sept. 2. t. 56. ƒ 1; DC. prodr. l.p . 331; Ell. sk. 2. p. 180;
Hook.! bot. mag. t. 2852. f fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 86. P. purpurea, Ait. Kew.
4. p. 244. (not of Nutt.) P. uniflora, Michx.! fl. 2. p. 53. Triclisperma
grandiflora, Raf. speech. 1. p. 7.
d. alba (Eights): flower solitary, smaller, white; stem somewhat leafy at
the base. Beck, bot. p. 46.
Sphagnous swamps, often in mountainous situations, Saskatchawan River!
to Georgia. 0. Sand plains near Albany, Dr. J. Eights. May.-—2f
Stalks 3-4 inches high, the lower, part scaly. Leaves 4-5, about an inch
long and half an inch or more wide. Flowers nearly § of an inch long,
deep rose-color; the pedicels 5-6 lines in length. Wings obovate, attenuate
at the base, as long as the corolla. Lateral petals oblong, concave, united to
the keel the greater part of their length : crest conspicuous, compound. Anthers
bilabiate, imperfectly 2-celled. Style long, a little curved, slightly enlarging
upward ; the orifice irregularly 4-toothed, without hairs.—In the structure
of the flowers this species strongly resembles P. Chamacbuxus of Europe.
+ Species o f which the flowers and fr u it are not sufficiently described.
23. P. Nutkana (Mog. ic. ined.): racemes loose, 4-5-flowered ; wings orbicular;
capsule emarginate; stem somewhat shrubby at the base; leaves
-oval, petioled, acuminate at each end. DC. prodr. 1. p. 330.
Nootka, North-west America. DC.—There is not improbably some mistake
about the habitat of this plant, as no species of the genus has been
found by other observers on the Pacific coast of N. America.
24. P. attenuata (Hook.): racemes loose, attenuated at the apex; pedicels
as long as the flowers'; wings ovate, acute, concave, scarcely longer than
the bearded keel; stem slender, elongated, angular, branched ; leaves linear,
opposite, rarely quaternate; upper ones alternate. Hook, in jour. bot. 1. p.
195. (not of Nutt.)
Jacksonville, Louisiana, Drummond.—(J) Stems very slender, ereet, about
a foot and a half high. Flowers greenish.—Habit of P. ambigua and P.
sanguinea, but very different in size, and in the flowers and racemes. Hook.
— We are unacquainted with this plant. The two species which it is said
iby Hooker to resemble are very unlike each other.
S ubokder KRAMERIEiE. M a rt.
Sepals 5, or rarely 4, more or less irregular, much spreading, colored,
'deciduous, in aestivation imbricated in a triple series ; the two outer
■ones anterior and posterior; the two intermediate ones lateral and
alternate with the exterior pair ; and the innermost usually smaller,
situated either to the right or left o f the posterior exterior sepal, sometimes
wanting. Petals 5, or rarely 4, hypogynous, smaller than the
sepals ; the three superior with long and slender claws (the lamina
sometimes abortive), severally alternating with the two (outer and
inner) posterior and the lateral sepals ; the claws sometimes united
into a slender column, which alternates with the two posterior sepals
when both are present, or is placed opposite to the exterior sepal when
the other is abortive ; the two lower petals (scales, abortive stamens ?
Kunth) opposite the lateral sepals (in K. cistoidea, ex Hook. A m . and
in K. laneeolata!), or alternating with these and the anterior sepal
(ex A, St. Hil.), sessile, fleshy, much smaller than the others and remote
from them. Stamens 4, hypogynous, more or less unequal, declined;