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C. Columbiana : peduncles 1-flowered; leaves ternate; leaflets ovate, acute, obscurely crenulate; sepals ovate, acuminate, nearly twice the length of the stamens.- Atragene  Columbiana, Nutt. in jour. acad. Philad. 7. p. 7.
Rocky Mountains, Mr. Wyeth. March.-Flowers smaller than in C. verticillaris, pale blue. Nuttall.

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C. ochroleuca (Ait.) : stem simple, silky-pubescent; leaves undivided, ovate, entire, silky beneath; flower solitary, terminal, pedunculate, inclined.- Ait. Kew. (ed. 1.) 1. p. 260; Sims, bot. mag. t. 1175; Ell. sk. 2. p. 45; DC. prodr. I. p. 8. C. sericea, Michx.! fl. 1. p. 319; Pursh, fl. 2. p. 385. . 
β  . leaves broadly ovate, very tomentose.
Banks of rivers and on mountains, New-York! to Georgia! β. North Carolina, Schweinitz! May-June.-Leaves reticulately veined, upper surface glabrous when old, subsessile; the upper ones rather acute. Flower yellowish, (erect in fruit). Sepals silky externally.- β. leaves larger, broadly ovate or roundish.

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C. Pitcheri: peduncles 1-flowered; leaves pinnate, coriaceous, reticulated; leaflets 2-4 pairs, ovate, mostly obtuse, individed or 3-lobed; branch leaves simple, ovate; sepals coriaceous, a little longer than the stamens; carpels with a short pubescent tail.
On the Red River, Arkansas, Dr. Pitcher! Nuttall ! – Leaves glabrous or slightly hairy beneath; the lowest pair 3-lobed, often subcordate. Sepals purple, about three-fourths of an inch long, reflexed at the summit, even on the margin. Tails of the carpels half an inch long, the lower part pubescent and almost plumose.

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 C. reticulata (Walt.): peduncles 1-flowered; sepals rather coriaceous; leaves pinnate; leaflets 4 pairs, oval, undivided or lobed, obtuse, rigidly coriaceous, conspicuously reticulated on both sides, glabrous; carpels with plumose tails.-- Walt. Car. p. 156; Pursh, fl. 2. p. 385;. DC. prodr. 1. p. 7; Ell. sk. 2. p. 47; Michx.! fl. 1. p. 318.
S. Carolina, Georgia! and Florida! May-Aug.-Leaflets all petiolulate, 1-1½ inch long, undivided or variously lobed; the lowest pair 3-parted, sometimes rather acute and mucronate. Peduncles longer than the leaves. Flower as large as in C. crispa. Sepals dull purple, ovate-lanceolate, velvety externally. Tail of the carpels long.

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 C. reticulata (Walt. !) The specimen in Walter's herbarium, which is clearly the plant described by himself and Pursh, is labelled 'C. crispa'.

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C. Catesbyana (Pursh): minutely pubescent; panicles divaricatedichotomous; the flowers mostly diæcious (small); leaves biternate or pinnately 5-foliolate ; leaflets ovate, often slightly cordate, 3-nerved at the base, mostly 3-lobed; the lobes entire; sèpals linear-oblong; carpels with rather short plumose tails.-- Pursh! fl. 2. p. 736; DC.! prodr. 1. p. 4. C. Plukenetii, DC. l. c. p. 7?
S. Carolina, Catesby! (v. sp. in herb. Lamb.) Georgia, Le Conte !—The leaflets are smaller than in the preceding [C. virginiana], acute or acuminate, and often narrow ; the pedicels tomentose-pubescent, &c. It is perhaps too near C. dioica, Linn.-The very poor specimen (in herb. Banks. !) on which C. Plukenetii was founded, seems to belong to this species.

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C. cylindrica.- Carpels silky-villous when young, but not plumose, at length only pubescent.-- Add syn. C. crispa, Ell.! sk. 2. p. 49, which must be erased under C. crispa. 

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 C. crispa (Linn.): peduncles 1-flowered, shorter than the leaves; leaves pinnate, ternate, or 3-lobed ; leaflets very acute; sepals thick and coriaceous, with the apex reflexed, transversely undulated and crisped on the margin, twice as long as the stamens; carpels with a short, thick, naked (or pubescent) tail.- DC. prodr. 1. p. 9; Sims, bot. mag. t. 1892; Ell. sk. 2. p. 49; Pursh, fl. 2. p. 384; Michx.! fl. 1. p. 318.
Virginia to Florida ! and west to Louisiana! May.-Leaves glabrous, or slightly hairy. Flowers a third smaller than in C. Viorna, bright purple. Tail of the carpels thick and rigid, about half an inch long.

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 C. cylindrica (Sims): peduncles 1-flowered; flower cylindrical-campanulate; sepals membranaceo-coriaceous, acuminate, with the margin undulate; leaves membranaceous, pinnate; leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceolate, petiolulate; carpels with plumose tails.- Sims, bot. mag. t. 1160; Pursh, fl. 2. p. 385; Ell. sk. 2. p. 475; DC. prodr. 1. p. 7. (excl. syn. Michx.?)
β. Walteri : leaflets linear and linear-lanceolate.- C. Walteri, Pursh, fl. 2. p. 384; DC. prodr. 1. p. 7; Hook. in jour. bot. 1. p. 86.
North Carolina! to Florida ! and in Louisiana! June-Aug.-Flower larger than in C. Viorna, nodding. Sepals dilated above and acuminate, bluish purple. Leaflets mostly entire.-Pursh, who described his C. Walteri from specimens in Walter's herbarium, was probably mistaken in supposing the flower to be white.

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C. cylindrica.- Carpels silky-villous when young, but not plumose, at length only pubescent.-- Add syn. C. crispa, Ell.! sk. 2. p. 49, which must be erased under C. crispa. — β. Walteri. C. Walteri, Pursh! (v. sp. in herb. Walt.)