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‘2 4 celled, 2-valved, opening at the summit. 
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Stamina scarcely unequal, subsessile, inserted 4 
Ss _ near the orifice; anthers oblong, naked. Rive + 
_ declinate. Capsule ventricose-ovate, aeute, 2 
Herbaceous plants with opposite pinnatifid leaves, and 
yellow oppositely disposed flowers; lobes of the corolla — 
pe and entire, orifice and short tube internally pu- a 
a nae econ scarcely any, ee anthers most- 
a ooth, oblong, nearly equal, 2-ce led, openiug lon- 
- oP ainaty Tn fear not ail of th the species, yas rides = 
an imperfect fifth stamen, thus’ pointing out the affinity 
of this genus to Celsia and Verbascum and so to the natu- 
ral order of SoLanacem. Capsule ventricose-ovate, acute, 
and compressed at the summit, partly 4-lobed, 2-celled, 
somewhat 4-valved, being readily papers in the line of 
the medial coriaccous dissepinents; seminal receptacies 2, 
round, small, and pendulous from “the centre of the dis- 
sepiments, neither compressed nor marginated as in the 
preceding. genus, Seeds angulas, with alated margins. 
x Species. 1.8. *macrophylia. Stem tall and branci:ed; 
hives large, nearly smooth, lower ones subpinnatifid or 
deeply toothed, the upper lan ¢ and entire; flowers 
subsessile, shortly campanulate, orifice and poe dies 
lanuginous; stamina scarcely exserted. Has. a, 2 
vial soils on the banks of th e Little] QOhio,) near 
the town of Lebanon. Flowering in Ju Ney te 
tinct species much resembling Gerardia, 
4 or 5 feet high, distinctly connecting this rene with 
the preceding, and indicating by its disparity with the 
following species, the probable existence of several more — 
in some of the unexplored recesses of North or South — 
Arrerica. Leaves from 3 to 6 inches long, att 
wards the petiole, which is short: Calix or “ 
about half way down, segments partly ovate andoftenfo- 
liaceous. Corolla yellow, with a distinct tube, : the 
size of that of Verbascum Thapsus, bat ee 
dia; border deeply $-parted, lobes , orifice 
tube filled with a matted woolly pubescence. — 
qual, oblong, and quite smooth; towards the base 
xe there 1s a fifth stamen often almost perfect, 
beapitate. Capsule small, vik annus: a 
ed point. migripeite- 2, roundish, 4: 
A hardy and curious plant, well worth « 
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