82" \ Genera and Spe* it 



A.MI'III WTIllS. 



Calyx 5-parted, and unequal. Corolla tubular-infundi- 

 buliform; limb Bomewhal bilabiate, 4-lobed ; inferior lobe 

 somewhat larger. Stamens 2, superior, included; inferior 

 ones wanting. Style simple ; stigma minutely bifid. Cap- 

 mi. i: obcordate, compressed, 2-valved, opening at the sum- 

 mit; valves entire. Seeds numerous, naked, anatropous. — 

 Herbaceous, minute, annua!, throwing up filiform scapes; ra- 

 dical leaves linear, sessile ; flowers solitary, botb radical, and 

 at the summit of the scapes. — Nat. Old. Scrophulaiune/E. 



A.MPIIIANTHUS PUSILLI S. 



Root annual; fibrous, the fibres compressed, linear. Stem very slmo 

 compressed, bearing a toll of oblong-linear leaves at its summit. Leaves 

 about 2 lines long, rather obtuse, entire, veihless, somewhat succulent. 

 S cs filiform and very slender, and 1 — U jnch in length, compressed*, 

 bearing a single pair of opposite oval bracts at the top. Bracts nearly 

 . omewhat succulent, obscurely 3-nerved. Flowersvery 

 minute; radical ones 2 — V> on each plant, attached to short recurved 

 peduncles, which originate from the mi'i of leaves; terminal ones soU- 

 . neatly sessile between the brackv <i.<. without any proper pe- 

 dicel). Ca/yar' 5-parted; the divisions oblong, erect, very obtuse, dotted 

 with a Dumber of minute glands. Corolla scarcely a line in length, 

 white, Btraight, tapering downward; limb Bomewhal dilated", slightly 

 bilabiate, 4-lobed ; the L< t, rounded", and somewlial emarginate; 



the inferior one larger. Stamens constantly :.'. superior, scarcely half as 

 long as the corolla; filaments slender, ad natc tin 1 lower two-thirds of 

 their Length, Bmooth ; cells of the miliars approximated, subglobose. 

 Ovary ovate; acute, compri ssed, surroanded ai the base with a minute 

 n 'I disk, '-'-<' Hi d, many -si sded; slyU rather larger than the ovary, subu- 

 1 .- n < : $tigma minute, bifid al die summit. CapsvUt broadly obcordate, 

 compressed, opening along the edge at the summit; valves entire, cos* 

 i dissepiment adhering to the valves. Seeds l<> — 15 in each cell, 

 ar-oblong, fuscous, straight ; embryo straight ; cotyledons oblong, dis- 

 tinct : radii h obloi 



Mai;. — In small excavations on ilai rocks, where the soil ia 

 wet during tin flowerin on; Newton County, Georgia. 



Flowen M ch and April. 1>i tf. C. Leavenworth! 



