out the United States, and it is no less valued for its medicinal vir- 
tues than —— for its beauty. 4 . 
The root is sannkis it consists of a few thick yellowish-white 
fibres, and sends up a single stem (rarely two) simple below, but 
very much and regularly branched above. The stem is herbaceous, 
from one foot to eighteen inches high, smooth, four-sided, with 
membranous wings at the angles. The branches are axillary, and 
of a similar structure. The leaves are opposite, ovate, acute, close- 
ly sessile, or nearly amplexicaule, three nerved. They vary, how- 
ever, in being longer and narrower. The flowers are very nume- 
rous, growing at the extremities of the branches, in numbers from 
two to five ; are of a beautiful rose-red colour above, much paler 
and nearly. white in the centre underneath, which gives to the buds 
a white appearance. In the centre of the corolla there is a defined, 
pentangular star, of a rich yellow colour, bordered with green. The 
petals are obovate, and vary in being narrower, sometimes nearly 
lanceolate-obtuse. The calix consists of five narrow acute, or al- 
most subulate segments, little more than half the length of the co- 
rolla. The anthers are spiral, of a rich yellow colour. The plant 
is in full flower in July. 
- Sabbatia angularis is a common plant, being extensively dis- 
tributed throughout the Union. It is most frequently found in low 
