246 Class XIV. Order II. 



261. GERARD1A. 



GERARDIA PLAVA. L. Yellow Gerardia. 



Pubescent; stern nearly simple ; leaves sessile, lan- 

 ceolate, entire or toothed and cut ; flowers subsessile. 



One of the most showy of our wild wood flowers. Stem 

 erect, one or two feet in height, pubescent. Leaves opposite, 

 the lower ones more or less pinnatifid and cut, the upper one* 

 lanceolate, entire or serrate, obtusely pointed. Spike terminal, 

 few flowered. Flowers opposite, trumpet shaped, large, yel- 

 low. Peduncles short, downy. Stamens somewhat woolly ; 

 anthers with two points at the base. Style slender, longer than 

 the stamens. The whole plant turns black in drying. Woods. 

 August. Perrennial. 



GERAKDIA GLAUCA. Eddy. Tall Gerardia. 



Glabrous ; stem panicled ; leaves petioled, pin- 

 natifid, paler beneath, the upper ones lanceolate ; 

 flowers pedicelled. 



Syn. GERARDIA OUERCIFOLIA. Pursh. 



A taller and handsomer plant than the last, which it greatly 

 resembles, so that it might pass for a cultivated variety. The 

 stem is smooth and more branched, leaves petioled and pinnati- 

 fid, flowers pedunculate. In other respects it resembles the last 

 species. Woods. August. Perennial. 



GERARDIA PEDICULARIA. L. Bushy Gerardia. 



Leaves oblong, twice serrate ; stem panicled, 

 calyxes crenate. L. 



A tall, bushy plant, which would be one of the most orna- 

 mental, were not its flowers very perishable, and deciduous. 

 Stem erect, with numerous, opposite branches. Leaves pinnat- 

 ifid, with serrate lobes. Peduncles hairy. The structure of 

 the flowers is very elegant. The calyx ends in five spreading 

 leafets, indented on their margin. Corolla yellow, downy with- 

 out, trumpet shaped, with spreading lobes. Stamens crossing, 

 the two longer filaments with loose hairs on their inner side. 



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Anthers hairy, dependent, two lobed, the lobes ending in seta- 

 ceous points. Style longer than the stamens. The leaves and 



