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NlEREMBERGIA GRACILIS. SLENDER 

 NlEREMBERGIA. 



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Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Solanace^:. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cal. tubulosus, 5-fidus. Cor. subhypocrateriformis, tubo 

 longissimo, tenui; limbo 5-lobo, plicato (sub-) aequali. 

 Stam. 5, exserta. Filam. inferne connata (an semper ?) 

 AnthercE longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Stigma subinfundi- 

 buliforme, bilobum, (nobis laterale transverse oblongum 

 utrinque acuminatum recurvum). Capsula in fundo caly- 

 cis persistentis bilocularis, bivalvis ; dissepimentum valvu- 

 jis parallelum, demum liberum ; placenta dissepimento 

 intimse adnatae. — Caules lignosi aut herbacei, Jiliformes, 

 procumbentes et scepe repentes. Folia sparsa, solitaria, 

 interdum gemina, integra et integerrima. Plores extraaxil- 

 lares aut oppositifolii, solitarii, subsessiles, albi. Kunth. 



Specific Character. 



Nierembergia* gracilis ; caulibus herbaceis erectiusculis 

 foliisque anguste lineari-subspathulatis pubescentibus, 

 capsula polyspermia. 



Descr. Stems several, as it appears, from the same root, 

 six to eight inches high, herbaceous, rounded, downy, 

 branching upwards, with the branches alternate, very slen- 

 der. Leaves small, scarcely more than half an inch long, 

 narrow-linear, approaching to spathulate, rather obtuse, 



pale 



j * In compliment to John Eusebius Nieremberg, a Spanish Jesuit of the 

 sixteenth century, who wrote a " History of Nature." 



