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variety or a species? 3. cnconspicua. Ipomopsis inconspicua, 
— Exot. Bot. i. t. 14. Altered to 1. parviflora by Mr. 
ursh. a 
Of this genus, confined thus far to America, there is a 
fourth species, £ albida, with white flowers, and bipinnati- 
fid leaves, discovered by Dombey, near Lima in Peru. ~ 
1 have, in restoring this genus of Michaux, altered his 
name merely for the sake of euphony, but retained the al- 
jusion, without venturing to criticise its exceptionable 
composition as formed in part from the name of the pre-— 
ceding genus, Ipomea, with the addition of eWus, as in- 
dicative of their common resemblance, sufficiently apt 
ng when we compare the I coronopifolia with the Ipomea © 
Quamoclit, deducting, indeed, the diversity of habit. That 
Michaux’s name has been independently derived from the 
Greek, without any reference to Ipfomea, and founded 
fe upon its striking appearance, as supposed by the editor of 
this article in Rees’s Encyclopedia, seems altogether im- 
probable. _ : ‘ 
Nearly all the genera composing the Naturak Order Po- _ 
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lemonidee, are peculiarly indigenous to Ame ica. 
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193. PHLOX. L. pee 
Calix deeply 5-cleft, prismatic. orolla sal- 
verform, border 5-lobed, flat; lobes cuneate; ~ 
tube more or less curved. Filaments unequal. 
__ Stigma trifid. Capsule roundish ovate, 3-celled, | 
ing cells 1-seeded. in 
Herbaceous, perennial; in P. speciosa suffruticose; — 
. 5 leaves opposite, simple and entire, those of the corymb 
~ often alternate; flowers fastigiate or corymbulose, termi« _ 
nal;.calix more or less foliaceous, subulate or mucronate. — 
- Corolla various shade of red or purple, accidentally 
Spectres. 1. FP. acuminata. 2. paniculata. 3. 
4. pyramidalis. (P. latifolia, Mich.) 5.cordata, Ext. 6. ma- 
culata. (P. suaveolens, no Where to be found wild, and ap- 
pears to be nothing more than a white flowered variety of 
this species, probably raised from seed, as the spotted — 
stem of P. maculata is by no means invariable.) 7. eareli- 
na. 8. nitida, Pu. 9. glaberrima. 10. speciosa, Pr. 11. pi- 
losa. (8. aristata, MicH. a smoother variety of P. pilosa, - 
not distinct.) 12. amena, Sims. Bot. Mag. No. 1. 
pilosa, of Walter, Michaux, and Pursh; but an irregula 
_ cultivated variety. 13. divaricata. 14. ovata. 15. re 
"= Men. (P. stolonifera, Bot. Mag. 563.) 16. subi 
_ ¢etaceq. “The flowers of this species are com 
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