“PENTANDRIAL ‘MONOGYNTL. 189 
the persistent calix, 4-celled, 4 -seeded, 2 of the 
cells sometimes abortive, 
pha Sen! we pin small, conglomerate and axillary, 
or in termi mes gntarh. oe internall ube- 
scent as in Mitchella. een he A 
“Spectes. 1. S.- glomerata. (Ltciivert Piiitesicorses: 
‘Willd. Spec. Plant. 1. p. 989.) Partial racemes axillary, 
crowded, imbricated in four ranks; flowers cylindric- 
\ he campanulate, bractea 3-leaved—PFlowers greenish-red; 
Le: _ berries bluish-purple- From Virginia to Florida; in 
r ee. Tennessee and up the Missouri to its sources. Com- 
mons 2. racemosa. Berries large, opaque, and white— 
_ In Upper Canada, not far from Queenston on the Niagara 
_Tiver; near the outlet of Lake Huron, “and on the banks 
of the Missouri. Not rare. This genus is confined to 
North America, Allied to Mitchella? 
215, DIERVILLA. Tournefort.. Juss. 
Se Cali oblot o, 5-cleft, bracteate at the base. 
¥ Corolla double t e length of calix, funnelform, 
~  — S.cleft,, spreading. Stigma capitate. Capsule 
_ oblong, naked, acute, 4-celled, many-seeded. 
Seeds: rater 
Re .. shrub with entire serrated leaves; pedencles axillary 
eS terminal, dichotomous, mostly S-flowered; flowers 
__ yellow. . 
- Species. 1. D, Tourneforti. The only species of the 
sn tunis and sd sas indigenous. 
pr (Reversal = 
f 
ewhat tet gy Ne ecYekte: 
crowned: with the calix. 
‘ r Sher hirsute above. Calix, corolla and younger a 
; : —. yiscosely-pubescent, » 5 een intel nie 
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