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ASCLEPIAS incarnata. 
Rose-coloured Swallow-wort, or Water Silkweed. 
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PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat, ord, АРОСТМЕЖ. Jussieu gen. 148. Div. II. Germen duplex. 
Fructus bifollicularis, Semina papposa. 
ASCLEPIADER. Brown asclep.19. Div. I. AscLErIADE® 
VERA. 
ASCLEPIAS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 76. 
А. incarnata, caule erecto superné ramoso tomentoso, foliis lanceolatis 
utrinque subtomentoso-lanuginosis, umbellis pluribus origine geminis, 
corniculis appendicum exsertis.  Pursh amer. sept. 1. 181. 
- Asclepias incarnata. Zinn. ep pl. 1.914. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 9. Hort. 
Kew. 1. 307. ed. 2. 2. 82. Jacq. hort. vindob. 2. 49. t. 107. Willd. sp. 
pl. 1.1267. Mich. bor. amer. 1. 115. 
А. caule erecto ramoso annuo, foliis lanceolatis, umbellis terminalibus 
erectis plurimis. Gron. virg. edit. 1. 27. 
Apocynum minus rectum canadense. Corn. canad. 9. t. 93. Barrel. ic. 79. 
(8) pulchra. Pursh L c. 
Asclepias pulchra. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1267. Bigelow flor. bost. 63. 
erbacea, perennis. Caulis erectus, purpureo-virescens, foliosus, superna 
epposito-ramosus, lanuginosus (о. tomentosus ех P.) sulcompresso-cylindri- 
cus, obscuré angulatus v. striatus, inferne glaber, nitens, crassitudine. digiti. 
Folia opposita, distantia, oblonga, lanceolata, semipedalia latitudine plus 
guàm sesquiunciali, subtàs varicoso-nervosa, subrugato-venosa, sublanuginosa, 
nube conspicuiore ad nervos eb venas inque junioribus, basi subovata v. sube 
sordatas tiolis viz & uncie longioribus, canaliculatis, basi tomentosis, 
ceterúm lanuginosis. Flores cau is ramorumque terminales, Sra rantes, 
carneo-purpurascentes: umbelle plurima pluriàs, at uno versi dichotome, 
congesto-fastigiantes inferiores foliis 2, superiores bracteis 2 interposita, Pe. 
dunculi communes subrubentes, longiores pedicellis, lanuginosi, subbiunciales 
ad brevissimos, robusti. Involuctum parvum, purpureum, triplo brevius 
ісейіз, radiatum, modo retroflerum, lanuginosum, foliolis angustissimis 
subulatis, Umbelle multiradiate, subcapitato-conveze, pedicellis fine ez- 
tumido carnoso pedunculi communis undigue insertis, 3-plo circitér longioribus 
corolla, lanuginosis, ebracteatis, teretibus, sursüm attenuatis. Cal. extis lanu- 
ginosus, rubido-virens, reflexus, plùs duplo brevior corollá, segmentis ovato- 
acuminatis v. lanceolatis. Cor. glabra, reflexa, laciniis lanceolato-oblongis, 
acutis: corona staminea carneo-pallescens remot? à plano corolla infra me- 
dium columns pro $ longitudinis sue striato-teretis et paulo incluse imposita ; 
foliola cucullata ovato-oblonga orificio obliquo retuso, cornicula alba gracilia 
super stigma conniventia exserentia, 
A hardy species, according to the Hortus Kewensis cul- 
tivated with us before 1710. It had been divided into two 
by Willdenow, which have been justly united again by 
