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of longifiora, and perhaps is not the plant which Spach imperfectly 

 characterized. That is said to have the tube of its calyx four lines 

 long, but the anthers only half a line long : the present plant has the 

 former rather shorter, and the latter much longer. I retain the specific 

 name, since it was taken up in Plantce Lindheimeriance : if incon'ect, 

 microcarpa would be the most characteristic name. 



4. G. ANGUSTiFOLiA, Michx. Pilosiuscula vel glabrata, gracilis ; 

 foliis repandis sjepe undulatis ; calycis segmentis, tubum adaequanti- 

 bus ; antheris hrevi-oUongis ; stylo basi glabro ; fructu puberulo 

 ovato oblongo acutissime 3-4-angulato basi breviter attenuato, faciebus 

 usque ad medium unicostatis. — North Carolina to Florida and Loui- 

 siana. — Petals not more than two lines long. Flowers frequently 

 trimerous, the fruit (three lines long) then triquetrous. 



••-+ ■•-+ RhacMs fructu delapso cicatricibus (seu pedicilUs brevis- 

 simis adnatis) prominulis cupuliforrnibus squarrosa. Fructus 

 pyramidatus ad latera pi. m. corrugatus. Appendices staminum 

 majusculi. 



5. G. SUFFULTA, Engelm. (in Gray, PI. Lindh. 2. p. 190). Caule 

 hirsuto ; foliis inferioribus s^epe sinuato-pinnatifidis ; stylo basi sub- 

 glabro indusio quadripartito superne a stigmate libero ; fructu ovato 

 pyramidato acutissime tetraquetro, faciebus concavis parce corrugatis 

 costa gracili percursis. — Texas. — Flowers rarely trimerous. 



6. G. TRiPETALA, Cav. (Gray, PI. Wright. 1. p. 72). Caule gracili 

 hirsuto ; indusio stigmatis prorsus adnato ; fructu pyramidato acutis- 

 sime triquetro, faciebus parum concavis valde rugosis costa superne 

 demum evanida percursis. — G. triangidata, Buckley, Proceed. Acad. 

 Philad., Dec. 1861. — Texas. Mexico. 



•i- -f— Fructus (permaturus) infra medium in collum teres subito con- 

 tractus, superne pyramidatus. — E radice perenni multicaules, hu- 

 miles. 



7. G. cocciNEA, Nutt. Canescens, foliosissima ; radice lignescente ; 

 bracteis persistentibus flores adsequantibus ; calycis segmentis tubo 

 paulo longioribus ; stylo basi piloso ; indusio stigmatis annular! mar- 

 gine integerrimo ; fructu canescente inferne in collum crassum con- 

 tracto. — G. epilobioides, H. B. K. is probably but a form of this. — Sas- 

 katchawan to Texas and Mexico. 



