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sile, more than an inch long, about half a line wide; seeds 
naked. This species, in every Samick inet: the seed, makes 
& near approach to Epilobium. 
§ 11. Capsules ventricose, angular, sna pedicellate. 
11. glauca. Leaves broad-oval, very smooth and glaucous. 
12. fruticosa. Partly villous; leaves linear-lanceolaté, sub- 
denticulate, acute; petals obcordate, as broad as long; calix” 
acuminate; capsule quadrangular, pubescent, oblong-cla- 
vate, pedicellate; raceme naked below. Bot. Magaz 332. 
Stem simple, leaves when held betwixt the light, punctate 
(through a common lens,) punctures very numerous and 
linear, similar to those of Lysimachia guadrifolia, but co- 
lourless and diaphanous, 
8. * ambigua more or less pilose; stem simple; leaves 
lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, acute, subdenticulate, pe- 
tals obcordate, longer than broad; points of the calix very 
short; capsule subsessile, always smooth, oblong, and 4- 
w ers raceme naked below. Has. Common ee 
Philadelphia with the preceding; apparently a distinct 
sen oe Stem simple, leaves endow ronment (through a 
jens,) stem more slender, flowers smaller and usually of 
a brighter yellow. In dry and exposed situations, this 
Species, if such it may be considered, becomes very hairy, 
im wet places often perfectly smooth—My attention has 
been directed to these discriminations through the polite- 
hess of f professor Barton. 
13. *incana. Stem low, slender, and erect; leaves flat, 
hoary and tomentose, very en:ire, elliptic-ovate, acute; ra- 
ceme few-flowered, naked, capsules subsessile, oblong and 
quadrangular. Hab. In “ary woods, Maryland.—Dr. W. 
€. Barton. v.3.in Herb. Barton. Stem 6 or 8 inches high, 
fours sion yellow. Allied to G2. frusticosa, B. ambi- 
to re Ons. 
much branched above, almost entirely 
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