SPIGELIA MARILANDICA. 
Fruit. Various. 
Seeps. One, few, or many in each cell. 
Tue Seconpary CHARAcTERS. 
Spicenia. Calyx five-parted. Segments linear-subulate. 
Corolla narrowly funnel-form. Limb five-cleft, equal. Sta- 
mens five. Anthers convergent. Cupsule didymous, two- 
celled, few-seeded. ;, 
Calyx five- ans Corolla funnel-form. Border equally five-cleft. Anthers con- 
verging. Capsule twinned, two-celled, four-valved, many-seeded. 
Tue Speciric CHaRacTers. 
Sprcevia Mariianpica. Erect, simple, nearly glabrous. 
Stem square. Leaves sessile, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acu- 
minate. Margin and veins scabrous-pilose. Spikes three — 
eight-flowered. Corolla, tube four times longer than the calyx. 
Anthers exserted. Lobes of the corolla lanceolate. Capsule 
glabrous, shorter than the calyx. 
Stem four-sided. Leaves all opposite, sessile, lance-ovate, entire. 
Tue Artiricia, CHARACTERS. 
Cuass Pentranpria. Stamens five. Orper Monoeynia. 
Ovary inferior. Monopetalous. Ovary two or three-celled. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
The Pinx-roor, not less celebrated for its peculiar efficacy 
in medicine, than admired for its beauty, is a native of the 
Southern and Southwestern States, and has become rare as 
far north as Virginia. It delights in dry rich soils, on the 
borders of woods, and flowers from May to July. The plant 
is rather difficult in its cultivation. It requires to be grown 
in a pot, that it may be protected from frosts or too much wet. 
It will, however, sometimes survive the winter when planted 
7 in the ep eroand ina pes of peat. The best soil for it is 
| tes Vile" The stems are 2 wba numerous, iimew hike Sick: : 
smooth, of a purplish color, and about seven or eight — 
ght. See ee 
