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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 391
4331 (N), 4834 (N). Bade County, Small, Hosier & Carter 6769
(N, S). Clarcona, Pieters 93 (N). Lakeland, Polk County, McFarlin
5823 (N). Merritt Island, Swollen 198 (N).
ILLINOIS: "Southern Illinois," Guba in 1922 (Penn).
KENTUCKY: Singer 369 (N); King 306 (N).
TENNESSEE: Wolf Creek Station, Kearney 728 (N).
Ruth 408 (N). Reelfoot Lake, Swollen 2138 (N).
Knoxville,
ALABAMA: Marshall County, Milligan in 1872 (N).
MISSISSIPPI: Oktibbeha County, Pollard 1271 (N).
ARKANSAS: Prescott, Hollister 41 (N), 45 (N). Hot Springs,
Runyon 1502 (N).
LOUISIANA: Hammond, Gallup 21 (N).
Alexandria, Ball 421 (N).
MISSOURI: Springfield, Standley 8500 (N). Eagle Rock, Barry
County, E. J. Palmer 6321 (N).
OKLAHOMA: Blackstone, G. W. Stevens 2601 (N). Durant,
Blain (N).
TEXAS: Palestine, Tharp 836 (N). Houston, E. Hall 228 (N).
BERMUDA: Paynter's Vale, Brown & Britton 406 (Y).
LOCAL NAME: "Maypops."
Fruit edible.
This, the only native species of the subgenus Granadilla in the
United States, ranges from Virginia to Missouri, south to Florida
and Texas. The large number of specimens examined show little
variation in leaf shape or in the relative lengths of the corona filaments.
The peduncles are usually longer and stouter than in its
close ally P. edulis, though sometimes they are as short as those
prevailing in P. edulis. The sepals and petals are white or pale
lavender; the corona filaments are normally pink or purple, though
in the case of a few specimens (McFarlin 5823) the collectors have
noted that all the flower parts are pure white.
Nomenclature has become much involved due to the confusing of
the two closely related species P. incarnata and P. edulis, and it
seems advisable to consider the matter in some detail (see Sabine:
"Some account of the purple-fruited passion flower," Trans. Hort.
Soc. Lond. 3: pi. 3. 1820).
Linnaeus included in his treatment of P. incarnata in the Species
Plantarum (1753) the plant later described as P. edulis, giving as the
distribution "Virginia, Brasilia, Peru." His first reference is to the
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