256 Sabbatia angularis. 
_to the tip of the tube: anthers oblong, erect, converging, spirally twisted after shedding the pol- 
len. Pist. Germ superior, egg-shaped ; style filiform, a little longer than the stamens, declin- 
ing; stigma capitate, ascending. Peric. Capsule or berry egg-shaped, two-celled. Lin. Smith 
(one-celled ; Lam. Gert.) valves inflexed. Smith. Seeds numerous, small, attached to the sides 
of the receptacle. ; 
Ess. Ch. Corolla salver-shaped. Stamens inserted into the tube ; anthers finally becoming spirab. 
Style declining. Pericarp superior, two-celled; valves inflexed. Smith. 
- Obs. In some of the species the anthers have not been observed to become spiral. 
SapBatia angularis, erecta ; foliis ovatis amplexicaulibus, pedunculis elongato-corymbosis, calice corolle 
semibreviores, laciniis lanceolatis, caule marginato-quadrangulo. Pursh, Fl. Am, 
SYNONYMA. 
Carrowta herbacea, caule acutangulo, foliis ovatis amplexicaulibus- Sp. Pl. 
Curmowza angularis. Willd. Sp. Pl, Mich. Muh. &e. 
Pharm. ~Sabbatie angularis herba, = 
Usus. Infusum in febribus. 
Facies Chironiz Centaurii. Caulis pedalis, tetragonus: alis membranaceis. Folia ovata (acuta) opposita, 
sessilia et semi-amplexicaulia. Flores congesti, ut in Hyperico ; antherz spirales; stylus bifidus. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. 
Tae subject of this article is a very elegant plant. It is uni- 
ersally known by the different names enumerated above, through- 
