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Asclepias Variegata. Variegated 

 Swallow-Wort. 



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 Pentandria Dxgynia, 



Generic Character. 



Contorta. Neflaria 5, ovata, concava, corniculum ex- 

 ferentia. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



ASCLEPIAS variegata ; foliis ovatis rugofis nudis, caule 

 fimplici, umbellis fubfeflilibus : pedicellis to- 

 mentofis. Sp. PL 312. Syft. Veg. 259. Willd. 

 1. 1265. Hort. Kew. 1. 306. 



ASCLEPIAS ex Virginia. Bauh. Pin. 303. 



WISANK five Vincetoxicum indianum. Ger. Em. 899. 



APOCINUM americanum, tuberofa, radice non incanum, 

 foliis rigidioribus lads fubrotundis, floribus 

 albis intus purpureis, fummo caule corymbum 

 magnum efformantibus. Pluk. Almag. 34. /. 77. 



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ASCLEPIAS bybrida; caulibus fimplicifTimis minutim tomen- 

 tofis, foliis petiolatis ovalibus minutiflime pu- 

 berulis, umbellis aphyllis terminalibus. Micbaux 

 Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1. p. 115. 



ASCLEPIAS variegata; foliis petiolatis fubtus glaucis fub- 

 tomentofis, caule erefto tomentofo j umbellis 

 plerumque tribus ereftis alternis; petalis et 

 auriculis corniculatis albis, corpufculo bafi 

 rubro. Walter F/or. Carol, p. 104. 



Michaux confidering the Asclepias variegata of Walter 

 as different from the plant fo called by Linn* us, gave it 



the 



