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acute, the palate smooth, marked with 2 confluent white 
spots, in the centre of which are 2 greenish dentures, and 
2 other spots of the same green colour towards the base 
= the tube. The height of the plant is from 11-2 to 2 
eet. ; = ; 
8. * gracilis. Stem erect, minutely scabrous, simple or 
filiformly branched; leaves oblong-linear, minutely denti- 
culate, .partly obtuse and remote; flowers slenderly race- 
mose, distant; peduncle coloured, shorter than the flow- 
er, bibracteate at the base; segments of the calix subu- 
late, longer than the capsule which is obtuse below. Has. 
On the dry margins of sandy swamps, from New Jersey 
to Carolina, and appears to be the plant which Michaux 
had considered as a variety of the preceding, to which it 
in many respects appreaches, though perfectly distinct. 
It is the smallest and most slender species in the United 
States, approaching the South African species particularly 
IL. Evinoides, though unquestionably different. . The radi- 
eal leaves are spathulate and mostly hirsute; stem leaves 
remote, sessile, scarcely ever exceeding an inch m length. . 
Stem filiform, often somewhat flexuous, but erect. Pe- 
-dunceles only 2 or S lines long, in the flower blue; seg- 
ments of the calix nearly double the length of the cap- _ 
sitle- Flower blue; palate of the lower lip marked with 
2 acute white lines, and 2 greenish spots with 2 others 
-also near the base of the tube. The root is slender but 
apparently perennial. 9. inflata. Stem erect and branch- 
ed; leaves ovate, subserrate, longer than the peduncles, 
capsule globose, inflated —According with the habit of 
this genus, as it regards North America, the present spe- 
cies is hirsute towards the base, but smooth above, there- 
fore Mr. Pursh’s interpolation of the term “ hirsutissima” 
in this instance will mislead rather than instruct. 10, 
siphilitica. (Leaves ovate-lanceolate, subserrate, sinuses of 
the calix reflected. 11. cardinalis. Flowers bright scar- 
let; the tube of the stamina exserted beyond the corolla. 
Oss. ZL. fulgens basneyer yet been discovered in the Uni- 
ted States, that species was introduced into Europe 
from Mexico by the celebrated traveller Humboldt; See — 
q anote in the first volume of his Travels, chap. P p. ... 
. ‘ A genus containing at present near 100 species almost 
peculiar to America, South Africa (the Cape of Good 
: Hope,) and Australasia; with the exception of the United 
{ States; the numerous and splendid species indigenous to 
_.. America are chiefly tropical; Europe affords but 3. 
_” 469, PASSIFLORA. L. (Passion-Flower.) 
Calia 5-parted, coloured. Petals 5, inserted 
tonne ae 
