108 LOGANIACE.E. Spigelia. 



S. Marilandica, L. INDIAN PINK, &c. Stem a foot or two high : leaves from ovate- 

 lanceolate to ovate and acuminate, 2 to 4 inches long, closely sessile by a rounded base, 

 one or two pairs of veins basal : inflorescence 1-2-spicate, short-pedunculate : corolla scarlet 

 outside, yellow within, an inch and a half long ; the tube somewhat clavate, four times 

 the length of ovate-lanceolate lobes. Mant. 338 ; Bot. Mag. t. 80 ; Lodd. Cab. t. 930 ; 

 Bigel. Mud. ii. t. 14. (Catesb. Car. ii. t. 78.) Lonicera Marilandica, L. Spec. Woodlands, 

 New Jersey to Wisconsin and Texas. 



2. Flowers smaller, naked spicate as in the preceding: corolla white or pur- 

 plish, fuunelform ; the limb more or less plicate in the bud with the edges of the 

 lobes turned outward : anthers and style included. 



S. gentianoides, Chapm. Stem a span to a foot high from a perennial root, rough- 

 ish : leaves ovate and the lower roundish, an inch or more long : spike few-flowered : corolla 

 an inch long; the ovate-lanceolate lobes rather erect. A.DC. Prodr. ix. 5; Chapm. Fl. 

 182. Light soil, W. Florida, Chapman. 



3. Flowers small, terminal and in the forks of leafy branches, mostly short- 

 peduncled : corolla nearly salverform, white or nearly so ; the limb plicate in the 

 bud and the edges turned outward : anthers and style included ; the latter articu- 

 lated in the middle, its tubular upper portion beset with collecting hairs fully half 

 way down : root annual ? Ccelustylis, Torr. & Gray. 



S. loganioides, A.DC. A span or more high, ascending: leaves oval, sessile (half to 

 three-fourths inch long) : sepals narrowly linear and with the scarious margins denticulate : 

 corolla 4 or 5 lines long, somewhat funnelform : capsule with minutely granulate surface 

 (not lineolate) : seeds smoothish. Prodr. ix. 4. Cwlostyl/s loyaniuldes, Torr. & Gray in 

 Endl. Iconogr. t. 101 (beard on the style represented too short), & Fl. N. Am. ii. 44. 

 E. Florida, near Fort King, &c., Dr. Burrows, Riujel, Buckley. 



S. Lindheimeri. A span high, diffusely much branched from the base, puberulent- 

 scabrous : leaves from ovate-oblong to lanceolate (an inch or less long), acutish at base, 

 the lower somewhat petioled : sepals linear and the scarious margins conspicuously den- 

 ticulate : corolla salverform. 4 lines long : capsule minutely lineolate : seeds at maturity 

 tuberculate-rugose as well as minutely pitted. Prairies of W. Texas, Lnulheiiner, Wright. 



S. Texana, A.DC. 1. c. About a foot high, nearly smooth and glabrous : leaves ovate- to 

 lanceolate-oblong, thinner and larger (one or two inches long), mostly acute at both ends, 

 the lower somewhat petioled : sepals setaceous-subulate, only one-nerved ; the margins 

 very obscurely serrulate-scabrous : corolla salverform, half inch long : capsule smooth, 

 not lineolate : seeds minutely rugulose and punctate. Ccclostylis Texana, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 

 E. Texas, Drummond, Lindheimer, Wright, &c. 



3. MITREOLA, L. (Diminutive of mitra, a turban or mitre, from the 

 shape of the capsule.) Glabrous low herbs (E. American, Asiatic and Austra- 

 lian), ours annuals ; with entire leaves, small entire stipules between them, and 

 very small white flowers unilaterally spicate on the naked branches of the ter- 

 minal cyme : fl. summer. Cynoctonum, Gmelin. 



M. petiolata, Torr. & Gray. A foot or two high : leaves membranaeeous, from ob- 

 long-lanceolate to ovate (1 to 3 inches long), acute, narrowed at base into more or less of 

 a petiole. Fl. N. Am. ii. 45 ; A.DC. Prodr. ix. 8; Progel in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. t. 82, fig. 1. 

 Ophiorhiza Mitreola, L. Spec. i. 150 ; Swartz, Obs. t, 3. 0. lanceoJata, Ell. Sk. i.238. Anony- 

 mos petiolafrt, Walt. Car. 108. Cynoctonum petiolatum, Gmel. Syst. 4. Mitreola. ophiorhizoides, 

 A. Rich. Mem. Soc. Nat. Hist. Par. i. 63, t. 3, includes both our species. Wet grounds, 

 E. Virginia to Texas. (Mex., W. Ind., &c.) 



M. sessilifolia, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. Stems more simple and virgate : leaves thicker 

 and firmer in texture (half inch or more long, and veins more prominent), roughish-mar- 

 gined, from round-oval to oblong, sessile : flowers and fruit smaller and more crowded. 

 Anonymos sessilifolia, Walt. 1. c. Cynoctonum sessilifoUum, Gmelin, 1. c. Ophiorhiza Mitreola, 



