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nanthium angustifolium, Gray, which is doubtless the He- 
lonias graminea of the Botanical Magazine. 
We also made an excursion to “ White Top,” in Virginia, 
twenty miles north-west from Jefferson ; a mountain of the 
Has. Masachussetts usque ad Louisianam. — Folia 1-3 uncialia, nunc 
exacte ovata, nunc ovato-oblonga vel sublanceolata, interdum serrata ut 
in icone Michx., haud rarius serraturis sparsioribus vel obsoletis, basi 
semper rotundata.  Verticillastri capituliformes, pauci, parvi, bracteis 
acutis calycem zequantibus. Ovaria calva. 
$ 4. Calyx equaliter dentatus. Verticillastri dense capituliformes, bracteis 
rigidis adpressis suffulti, numerosi, paniculato-corymbosi, fere omnes terminales 
nunc subfasciculati. Corolle labia brevia. Ovaria calva. Folia sessilia, 
angusta, crebra. 
11. P. lanceolatum, (Pursh); dentibus calycis brevibus triangularibus 
(sepe acutis) bracteisque ovato-lanceolatis villoso-tomentosis, foliis lan- 
ceolatis linearibusve integerrimis rigidis glabriusculis basi obtusis ses- 
silibus, caule ad angulas pubescente.—Brachystemum Virginicum, Michz, 
Variat foliis nunc lato-lanceolatis, nunc anguste linearibus, raris- 
sime (spec. in herb, T. Carey, vidi) subserratis. Stamina sæpius inclusa, 
haud rarius vel duo vel omnia exserta, labia corolle subzequantia ! 
12. P. linifolium, (Pursh); dentibus calycis lanceolato-subulatis brac- 
teisque (e basi ovata vel lineari subaristatis) rigidis glabrescentibus, foliis 
anguste linearibus rigidis integerrimis sessilibus cauleque glabris, — . 
Stamina nunc inclusa, nunc subexserta. _ 
§. 5. Calyz equaliter dentatus. Verticillastri dense corymbosi, terminales, 
paniculati, bracteis laxis, interioribus brevissimis. Ovaria calva. Folia 
brevia, remotiuscula, sessilia. 
13. P. nudum, (Nutt.) ; glabrum pallide virens, dentibus calycis trian- 
gulari-lanceolatis brevibus pilosis, bracteis exterioribus lanceolato-linearie 
bus interioribus brevissimis subulatis, foliis ovato-oblongis integerrimis ses- 
silibus, caule simplici stricto. o es 
$ 6. Calyz equaliter dentatus. — Verticillastri (ampli) subglobosi, bracteis 
plurimis suffulti, solitarii, terminales, aut sepius in azillas foliorum parium 
2-3 supremorum arcte sessiles, Ovaria barbata. Folia subpetiolata. - 
14. P. montanum, (Mz.) ; capitulis globosis, bracteis acutissimis villoso- 
ciliatis exterioribus ovatis intimis linearibus, dentibus calycis brevibus 
acutis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis serratis acutis inferioribus basi rotundatis 
. Cauleque glabris.—P. montanum, Nutt. gen. 2, p. 33, et, sic opinor Mr. 
4. 2, p. 8, igitur Monardella montana, Berth. Lab. p. 331. > 
Has, In altis montibus Caroline, Michaux. Ad jugum quod dicit 
“ Catawba Ridge,” Carol. Sept., Nuttall. Ad radices Montium Grand- 
father, Roan, etc., legimus, et olim invenit Curtis,—Julio-Augusto 
