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lerbs with onnosite or altcornate leaves, without stinules, the herbare 
rourh, sendvanver-lixe. lowers perfect (showy and solitary in the axils in 
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our svecics), regular. Sevals 4 or 5, Vetals 4 or 5, yellow,er-red, Stamens 
numerous, the outer file: onts somctimes petaloid. Pistil 1, the ovary wholly 
inferior, lechembered. Fruit a capsule. 
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tals cozted on che calvx-tube, sStvles 3. vansule with 6 parietal -lacentnee 
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Le lie laevicaulis (Vousle} Te & Ge Blazing star, Ain erect branch'” ennual 
40860 cn. call with shining white stems which are minutely roughened, intcrnodes 
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5e4 ome long; leaves sessile, 4-6 cm, long, lanceolate in outline, sharply 
vinnatifid half way to the midrib, both surfeccs very rough; flowers showy, 
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borne in the uvper axils, on pedicels 5-& mn, long; Calyxetube scabrous, cne 
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senels smooth, narrowly lenceolate, 2e5 cm. long, vetals bright lemon vellow 
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within, valer without, om CM. long, 10-12 mm. wide, lanceolate, acute, narroaved 
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at the base; stemons S-4 em, longs; cansule 5-5,5 cm, long, widest av the anex, 
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