Ellisia nyctelea (L.) L.

PLANTAE EXSICCATAE GRAYANAE
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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1387. Ellisia nyctelea L.
Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1662 (l762); A.DC. in DC. Prod. ix.
291 (1845); Gray, Man. ed. 2, 828 (l856), in Proc. Am.
Acad. x. 316 (l875) et Syn. FI. ii. pt. 1, 157 (l878>;
Peter in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. Abt. 8a,
62 (1892); Brand in Engl. Pflanzenr. iv. Fam. 251, Heft
59, 88, fig. 7 (l918); Constance in Rhodora lxii. 85, map
1 (1940).
Syn. Ipomoea Nyctelea L. Sp. PI. 160 (l753). Polemon-
ium ? Nyctelea L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 231 (l762). Ellisia am-
bigua Nutt. Gen. i. 118 (l818); A.DC. in DC. Prod. ix.
291 (1845). Macrocalyx Nyctelea (L.) O.Ktze., Rev. Gen.
i. 484 (l89l); Rydb. in Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. iii.
170 (1895) et I.e. 514 (1896); Coulter & Nelson, Man.
Centr. Rocky Mts. 407 (1909). Ellisia Nyctelea var. colora-
densis Brand in Engl. Pflanzenr. iv. Fam. 251, Heft 59,
89 (1913). Nyctelea Nyctelea Britton in Britton & Brown,
111, FI. ed. 2, iii. 67, fig. 3489 (l918). Nyctelea ambigua
(Nutt.) Standi, in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash, xxxii. 148
(1919). Nyctelea americana Moldenke in Bull. Torr. Bot.
Club, lix. 155 (1982).
Plants slightly succulent; corolla white to pale lavender, the
limb speckled.
In moist soil shaded by Ailanthust Quercus, Cercis, Asi-
mina, Hamamelis and Lindera, associated with Impatienst
Corydalis and Galium aparine, along a small brook near the
Potomac River, about 1 mile northwest of the railroad
bridge to Harpers Ferry (West Virginia), Washington
County, Maryland.
Coll. Lincoln Constance, Rogers McVaugh May 16,1948
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