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3. h. monticola Muhl.: stem slender, dichotomous ; 

 radical leaves spatulate ; cauline ones linear, small and re- 

 mote ; peduncles very long, at length deflected. N uti. Gen. 

 II. Supp. Muhl. Cat. p. 61. 



Root perennial. Stem erect, 4 — 6 inches high, quadrangular, 

 smooth. Radical leaves exactly spatulate, obscurely toothed, 

 rather fleshy, punctate; cauline ones very few. Peduncles 

 an inch or more long ; bracts subulate. Calyx one-fourth as 

 long as the corolla, deeply 5-parted ; segments, lanceolate, 

 acute. Corolla pale blue, smooth ; lower lip very large, seg- 

 ments round, very obtuse; upper lip emarginate. Sterile 

 filaments as long as the tube of the corolla, glandular ; fertile 

 ones much shorter; anthers 2-lobed. Style as long as the 

 fertile stamens; stigma 2-llpped. Capsule oblong, acute, 

 longer than the calyx ; dissepiment parallel with the valves. 

 Seeds minute, round, compressed. 



Hab. On the White Hills of New-Hampshire. NuttalL 

 The above description is taken from specimens collected in 

 North-Carolina, and obligingly sent me by Mr. Sch%i>einit- 

 and Cafit. Le Conte. 



12. HEMIANTHUS. Nutt. 



Calyx tubular, border 4-toothed, cleft on the under 

 side. Upper lip of the corolla obsolete ; lower 3-parted, 

 intermediate segment ligulate, much longer, closely in- 

 curved. Stamens 2 ; filaments bifid ; lateral fork an- 

 theriferous. Capsule 1-celled, 2-valved, many seeded. 

 Nutt. Jour. Acad. Philad. I. p. 119, t. 6, f. 1. Gen. 

 II. p. 42. Nat. Ord. Lysimachi^ Jtiss. 



H. micranthemoides J^ itt I. 1. c. Herpestis micrantka 

 Pursh Ft. II. p. 418. (excl. syn.) 



Root fibrous, annual. Stem dichotomous, creeping. Leaver 

 opposite, crowded, sessile, oblong-elliptic, smooth, succulent, 

 somewhat 3-nerved. Flowers axillary, solitary, pedicellate ; 

 pedicels at length reflected. Calyx somewhat compressed, 

 attenuated towards the peduncle; teeth obtuse, very short. 

 Corolla bilabiate; tube gibbous; upper lip very minute; 

 lower lip rarely expanding, with 2 lateral segments resembling 

 teeth ; the middle segment incurved, and generally remaining 

 V'ithin the tube. Stamens seated on the lower lip ; anthers 

 obcordate, 2-lobed, 2-celled. Style 1, declined, bifid halfway 

 down; stigma small, capitate. Cafisule round, 1-celled ; seeds 

 ovate, shining, smooth, acute at the base. JVii 1 1. 



Hab. On the gravelly banks of the Delaware, overflowed by 

 the tide, near Philadelphia. Xuttall. Near New-Haven, 

 Connecticut. Prof. Ives. August — September. 



