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DID¥NAMILA. GYMNOSPERMIA. 
i 
_ tensely bitter; flowers very conspicuous and of a fine 
blue, palate of the lower lip marked with a divided con- 
fiyent yellow blotch. 9. pilosa, 10. serrata, , Leaves eo 
: long- ovate, crenate, smooth beneath. me, 
aha. 8 SF 3 MODERATE. Tall and branching; leaves ovate” ‘ 
acute, acutel * teothed and petiolate, under side with the 
bractes and flo 
er leaves subcordate; racemes pedicellate, subpaniculate 
axillary and. terminal; bractes ovate-lanceolate, longe 
than the calix. Has. In the plains and open forests of 
Ohio. S§. incana? Mulilenberg’s Catal. Ons. Perens | 
fial. Stems 2 or 3 feet high, canescent. Leaves conspi- 
cuously petiolate, truncate or subcordate at the’ base, 
whitish beneath, opaque. Racemes partly lateral pnditer- . 
minal, elegantly villous and canescent, pubescence ve 
short. Flowers deep blue and of considerable ra 
Somewhat allied to &-serrata but distinct and a much 
finer species. 
12. * versicolor. nobust and branching; the whole plant 
except the leaves covered with a soft and glandular pubes- 
cence; leayes broad-cordate, large, and obtusely toothed, 
nearly smooth; petioles very long; racemes ternate, ter- 
_. minal, bractes ovate; flowers smallish, particolored. 
peony With the ahove.. Ons. The Jargest North Ancy. 
ee ecies, and yery distinct. Root perennial. Stem 
thigh. Leaves thin and diaphanous, a little hir- 
a above, 2 or 3 inches broas and 3 or4long, destitute 
ar ‘bitterness; 
peduncles 1 —- a half- =a ‘Zinches long. - 
es partly secund, 6 to 8 inches in length; bractes 
vate, short and — viscidly: pubescent beneath 
aswell as | the rachis and:cali Corolla rather small, up- 
“caper lip blue, the lower white, &. cordifolia? Mubl. Catal, | 
A considerable genus, of which there are 6 species in 
Europe, 2 in Siberia, 4in the Levant, Lin China, a shrub- 
a : = a Persia, 2 in tropical America, and 1 in Para- 
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rt YMUS. L. (tiiyme,) 
wers closely and canescently villous, low- _ 
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