a 
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PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 167 
and gibbous, terminating in a subulate awn; margins of 
the antheridium ciisgtanl 
8. purpurascens. 9. viridj Described in the New | 
York Medical Repository, Hexade II. p. 360. No. 18. by 
Mr. C. G. Rafinesque Schmaltz, since the year 1808, under 
the same name. 10. variegata. Stem simple, erect, leaves 
elliptic-ovate, petiolate, smooth, margin pubescent; pedi- 
cells pubescent; root horizontal.—-Segments of the lepan- 
thium roundish, longer than the antheridium, central pro- 
cesses flattened, falcate, point aristate, tube purplish. 
Ll. obtusifolia. 12. amplexicaulis. Leaves glaucous, re- 
marbably veined; flowers whitish. A low but elegant 
species, : 
48. Periplocefolia. (A. laurifolia, Micu. A. acumi- 
nata,Pursn. A. cordata? Want. fi. car. 105.) Leaves 
subsessile, somewhat distant, ovate-lanceolate, narrowing 
upwards, very acute, smooth on both sides, margin — 
rate; umbells mostly 2, naked, lateral; root an arrounded 
tuber, (almost similar to that of the spiked species of 
Liatris.)—Corolla greenish on the under side. Segments 
ef the lepanthium oblong-linear, a little longer than its 
awn, which is simply subulate, and. vice the le 
of the antheridium. “ Apoeynum (‘scand ‘Mis- 
take) Floridanum, Periploce foliis, 
distantibus, floribus aor a. umbella_ p 29 
}. f.2. Has. From New Jer- — 
Pluk. amalth. fol. 18. t. 
sey to Florida, in the swamps of the sea coast, 
14. paupercula. (A. floridana, Lamarck.) Segments of 
the lepanthium spreading, much longer than the antheri- 
dium, internally bidentate, awn simply subulate, tube as 
long as the antheridium. Leaves very long and remote. — 
Pluk. amalth. 18. t. 359. £4 the leaves in this figure are, _ 
however, alternate. 15. viridis. Pro : 
pias? ¥6. quadrifolia. Lepanthium linear-oblong, n 
flat, internally bidentate, thangs = 2 of the an 
dium, awn very short. “ Apocynum umbellatum a 
latiore foliis tatraphglion ex Terra Mariana.” Pluk. 
p. 46- 
