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smaller roots, generally about the thickness of a crow or goose-quill, 
and sometimes larger. The stems are numerous, dichotomous, 
white under the earth or sand, and red, pale-green, or yellow above. 
The stipules are heart-shaped and small. The leaves are opposite, 
sessile ; and are generally oval, sometimes obovate, and occasionally 
lanceolate, as represented in fig. 5,.and not unfrequently even linear. 
They are always entire on their margins, but sometimes, when obo- 
vate, are emarginated or notched at the apex. While the plant is in 
flower, in May, the leaves are very small, as in fig. 4 and fig. 2; 
when it grows older, they become much increased in size, as 
in fig. 3 and fig. 4. The flowers are situated on solitary one- 
flowered axillary peduncles, varying in length from three quarters 
of aninch, to three inches. The seeds are three in number, en- 
closed in a triangular-like capsule. 
This plant is said by Michaux, to grow from Pennsylvania to 
Carolina. It will, I presume, be found on the sandy shores of our 
sea-board, from Jersey to Georgia. I have found it (in the year 
1810) in the sand, near the light-house at Cape Henry in Virginia. 
It grows in the greatest abundance in the sandy fields of Jersey, op- 
posite to Christian street, (of Philadelphia) and about half a quarter 
of a mile from the Delaware. It grows also in similar situations, 
along the course of the Delaware, for ten or fifteen miles below this 
city, and probably further. It delights in a loose, moist, sandy soil ; 
and is often found growing in beds of sand only, As the root alone is 
