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SCBVOLA. GEACiLis, M. JIL ; procumbens, ramis herbaceis foliisque utrinque 

 pubescenti-pilosis axillis Tillosis, foliis lanceolatis <nmeato-lanceolatisTe 

 acutis irregulariter serrato-dentatis in petiolum elongatum angastatis, flori- 

 bus in ramulis brevissimis axiUaribus subsessilibus, foliis 4 lineari-Ianceo- 

 latis floribus sequilongis bracteatis, calycis tube brevi basi bracteolato, limbi 



inflequalibns, 3 subulatis, 2 intermediis brevibus, coroUffl 



gustis 



multibracteatus, seric«us, i unc. longus. 



uuequalibus, 3 subulatis tubo coroUfle i brerioribus, 2 intermediis breribus 

 obtusis lobulatis, CoroUae flavidse tubus lent^ curvus, laciniflB tubo longiores, 

 lineares, ligulatse, acuminato-uncinatae, supemS paul6 dilatatsB, marginibus 

 nxembranaceis undulatis, tubo intils villoso supemfe pilis capitatis opacis et 



ualia^ tubo coroUse brevioraj 



mutieis. Stylus pilo- 



secus basin limbi instructo 



filamenta filiformia, glabemma ; antheris linearibus 

 8^- Stigma hemisphgericum, marginibus cupulce ciliatis. 



AsmiNA LANCEOLATA, S. fil. ; arbuscula, foliis coriaceis petiolatia lanceo 

 latis acuminatis grossS serratis subtiis glaucis, paniculis folio brevioribus. 



-4. hmd<B^ H. fil., NovfiD-ZelandifiB affinis, sed foliis lanceolatis longioribus ei 

 angustioribus, serraturis grossioribus apicibus curvis acutis. Folia 2-3 unc 

 wnga, acuminata, basi in petiolum sensim angustata. Flores subimbricatL 



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&c. — ^Extracted from a Letter to Gteorge Bentham, Esq 



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[Bead April 15th, 



EAX years ap^o. in a TnAmmV* in which Oholaria 



%ired and described, I endeavoured to show that this genua 



peculiarity 



referred 



• Qentia/necBj notmtTistandmg 

 wish now to sa 



account 



jntation. Had I properly 

 ^oted at the time what Grisebach states (in his Gen. et Sp. Gen- 

 ^^earum), respecting the ovules sometimes occupying several 

 series somewhat remote from the sutures, or had I been led to in- 

 spect the ovary of almost any of our common Gentians, the case 



clear 



once. 



former 



Mr. Henry J. Clark, has called my attention 



juiuerto unknown, I believe, that the ovules in most of our Gen- 

 ^8 of the United States occupy the whole, or nearly the whole 

 P^etes of the ovary ; sometimes in nearly definite rows, as in 



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