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three to five-toothed, nerves obsolete, 

 all pubescent above, glabrous below ; 

 superior pairs, sessile, lanceolate, acute, 

 entire. 



Flowers small, axillary, and solitary 

 on long- divaricate ascending peduncles, 

 articulated at the base by a swelled 

 joint, purplish pink alike throughout, 

 twice the length of the calyx, upper 

 lobes broadest, margins crenulate, sac- 

 cate base of the tube much compress- 

 ed above, glabrous within, throat con- 

 stricted, the external expansion purple 

 spotted above, filaments hirsute, stigma 

 minutely bilobed. The obconical ex- 

 panding calyx narrowed and slightly 

 depressed above at the base, and cor- 

 respondingly swelled below, segments 

 ovate acute, fleshy, glabrous ; margins 

 minutely ciliate, somewhat unequal, or 

 three larger and two smaller ; capsule 

 globose, pink and purple spotted above, 

 seeded. Flowering in March and April. 

 This very minute species — often barely an inch or more in height — had 

 hitherto escaped our observation, until little friend George Bloomer discovered 

 it, while on a trip with us to the hills in this vicinity. The whole plant at 

 length often assumes a scarlet or purplish hue. It certainly is not the C. vio- 

 lated of D. C. and appears quite as distinct as any species known to us. 



