4 -- -MONANDRIA. DIGYNIA. _ 
ives axillary, solitary, sessile, commencing near tlie 
summit of the branches, upper flowers monandrous, lower 
‘ms ones, sometimes with 2, 5, 4 or 5 stamens! 
* Species. 1.6. h lyssopifolium. *® Americanum, spikes ap- 
proximating, axillary and terminal, squarrose; leaves linear, 
narrow, and nervose, with a subulate mucronulate point. 
:, On the sandy alluvions of the Missouri, apparently 
propagated down the river Platte, as it ceases to be found 
above the confluence of that river. ©) July v.v. * 
Ozs. The spon‘aneous plant, generally smooth, under % 
culture somewhat tomentose, the pubescence, through a 3 
lens, stipitate, multifid; stem. striate, herbaceous, caly- 3 
eine squamz rhomboid-ovate, aeuminate, gradually shorter; &s 
--bypogynous scales chaffy, minute, eroded. _ 
BLITUM. L. (Strawberry-spinage.) | 
Calix 3-parted. Corolla 0. Seed 1, covered by 
“the calix, which enlarges = generally becomes 
a berry. 
<<. =. ~alowers: and Sette | in sasitess clusters; the capituli 
aes a strawberries, and. are both terminal and axil- 
er ary. 
‘Spectres. 1. B. capitatum. ‘A doubtful native, 2.* Cheno- 
2? Leaves almost pp ge somewhat 
at either end attenuate; glomeruli all apa 
seeds distinct, punctate, not berried. 
Has On arid soils near the banks of the Bnd. Q. 
‘Oss. Stem erect, virgate; seeds naked, imbricated, sur- 
nded- bya few linear leaves longer than the seed; 
‘proper calix, apparently none, style 1, deeply bifid. Seed. 
coated, covered with impressed punctures, oboval, slightly 
~mergmed, beneath the outer envelope dark brown, a little 
rugose, emarginate below. Coereulun curved round. the 
perisperm, paiallel with the margin of the seed; spas “4 
~ partly farinaceous and partly cor’ neous: 
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