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SPIGELIA MARILANDICA. PERENNIAL WORM^GRASS 



Or, INDIAN PINK. ' 



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S TNO NYMA, Splgelia. Fharm, Land, Iff Edinh, Periclymem 



giniani flore coccineo planta marilanclica, fpica ereda fol 



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conjugatls. Catejhy Carol, voL H. f, 78. Lonicera marilandlca 

 fpicis termmalibus, folils ovato-oblongis acummatis diflindis feffi- 

 libus. 6^. Pla?ityp, 249. Splgelia marilandlca fol. ovatis oppofitis 

 fpica fecunda terminali. Walter Flor. Carol, p, 92. '^\^t Mantiff, 

 Lin, it, p. 2)?)^' mf' ^ ^kf' ^hf' ^ -^^'^- '^''^^' ^^^' /• 151. CurL 



Bot: Mag, 80. 



Clafs Pentandria. Ord, Monogynia. Lin, Gen, Plant, 200 



EJf,.Gen, Ch,. Cor, infundibulif.. Caps, didyma, 2-locularis, polyfperma. 



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Sp, Ch,- S. caiiTe tetr'agono, foliis omnibus oppofitis 



THE root is perennial, unequal,, fimple, fends off many Header 



fibres, and grows in an Horizontal direction : tbe ftalk is fimple, ered 

 fmooth, obfcurely quadrangular, of a purpliili colour, and commonly 

 rifes above a foot in heigbt : the leaves are ovate, ieffile, fomewhat 

 undulated, entire, of a deep green colour, and (land In pairs upon 

 the ftem : the Howlers are large, funnel-£haped, and terminate the 

 ftem in a fpike :■ the' calyx divides into five long narrow pointed 

 fmooth fegments : the corolki is monopetalous, confifting of a long 

 tube, gradually fwelling towards the middle, of a bright purpliili red 

 colour, and divided at the mouth into five pointed fegments, which 

 are yellow on the infide : the five filaments are about the length or 

 the tube, and crowned with halberd-fiiaped antherx : the germen is 

 fmall, ovate, placed above the infertion of the corolla, and fupports 

 a round ftyle, which is longer than the corolla, furnlflied with ajoin^ 

 near its baf^, and bearded towards the extremity, which is iupphe 

 with an obtufe ftigma : the capfule is double, two-celled, and contains 

 'many finall angular plano-convex feeds. It is a native of Anieuca, 



d flowers in July and Augufl 



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