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 Gerardia purpurea. Purple Gerardia. 



Class and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 2-labiata : labio inf. 3-partito : Iobis 

 emarginatis : medio bi-partito. Caps. 3-locularis, dehiscens. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Gerardia purpurea ; foliis linearibus integerrimis, floribu* 

 subsessilibus. Hort. Keiv. ed. alt. 4. p. 6 



Gerardia purpurea ; foliis lmearibus. Sp. PL b48. Willd. 

 S. p. 221. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 154. Gron. Virg. ed. 



4to 93 

 Gerardia purpurea. Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. p. 422. Nuttall 



Gen. it Spec. 2. p. 46. Michaux Fl. Bor. Am. 2. p. 19. 

 Digitalis foliis linearibus, floribus remotis. bt. Virg. 



ed. Svo. 169. . . _. . . . 



Digitalis virginiana rubra, foliis et facie Antirrhini vulgaris. 



Pluk. Mant. 65. t. 388. 



Mr. Nuttall has very properly remarked that the above 

 generic character excludes the American species which ap- 

 proximate the genus Digitalis. The variety ot Fubsh, 

 Mr. Nuttall describes as a distinct species under the name 

 of maritima, and we are not sure that our plant, trom its 

 pubescent pale coloured corolla, does not belong to mis. 



Gerardia purpurea seems to be rather a tender than 

 hardy annual. Native of North-America from Canada to the 

 Southern States. There is a specimen collected in the former 

 country, by Mr. Francis Masson, preserved in the Banks an 

 Herbarium ; and Mr. John Fraser, to whom we are indebted 

 for the communication of the plant from which our drawing 



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