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in; germ ovato ; styles none; stigmas three, reflex, very small; berry sessile, 

 unaisb, very small. It differs from scabrum bv its remarks)! i liir'sute am! hispid 

 habit. Su>. To avoid confounding this plant widi the species hispidulum, Swartz 

 changed the name from hispidum, which he first gave it, to hirsutum. Ii grows in the 

 cooler mountains, and Bowers in autumn. 



12. NITHDUM. SHINING. 



Leaves lanceolate-ovate, oblique at the base, smooth, shining. 

 This grows about five or six feet high, very much bfancfied, with a smooth round 

 trunk ; branches and branchlels always joirfted at the insertion of the leaves, brittle. - 

 Leaves alternate, oblique at the base on the outerside, veined, dark green, from two 

 to three inches long; petioles very shorty round. Spikes peduneled, shortish, round, 

 upright, very even, whitish. Peduncles opposite to the leaves, short ; 'lowers very 

 much crowded. Native of mountain woods, flowering in spring. Sw. 



13. ALPINUM. ALPINE. 



Herbaceous, stem erect, nearly simple ; leaves ovate, roundish, acute, vein'c' 

 underneath ; spikes axillary. 



This is an herbaceous plant, with filiform, descending, simple roots ; stem about a 

 foot high, round, succulent, smooth. Leaves rather large, entire, nerved, smooth 

 on both sides, paler underneath, tfaickish ; petioles longish, compressed, smooth, 

 widening at the base. Spikes solitary, the length of the leaves, round, tliick, with 

 the flowers close. No calyx, but lanceolate-acute scales; filaments two, very short, 

 at the base of the pistil ; anthers very small, whitish; germ oblong, acuminate; style 

 simple; stigma acute. It is distinct from obtusifoHum t which has a creeping stem: It 

 grows on the highest mountains, and flowers in February and March. Su>. 



14 IIISPIDULUM. SHAGGY. 



Herbaceous, almost upright ; leaves roundish, petioled, very thin, rough- 

 haired above. 



Herbaceous, small, and bright green ; roots small, capillary, divided, whitish. < 

 Stem two or three inches high, jointed, diffused, round, striated, smooth, pellucid, 

 succulent, brittle ; branchlets diffused, opposite to the leaves. Leaves alternate, 

 emarginate at the base, entire, veined, green above, arid somewhat hispid with pale 

 pellucid bristles thinly scattered over them, dotted, beneath very smooth, paler, very 

 tender ; petioles short. Spikes minute, pedicelled, opposite to the leaves, solitary ; 

 flowers very minute, naked, distant; calyx none, but scales scarcely visible at the base 

 of the germ; filaments two, by the side of the germ, at its base, very 'minute, patu- 

 lous, horizontal, in a manner club-shaped ; anthers roundish, whitish.; germ oblong, 

 >tiispid ; style thick, short; stigma blunt, brown. Fruit pedicelled, the size of a small 

 pin's head, roundish, black, somewhat hirsute-hispid. Its taste is bitter, but not 

 aromatic. It grows in moist woods in the Blue Mountains, is an annual plant, and 

 flowers in the spring. 5V. 



1 5. TENELLUM. TENDER. 



Herbaceous, simple, decumbent ; leaves distich, ovate, veinless, ciliate at the 

 edge ; spike ascending, 



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