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calyx ; lobes obtuse or emarginate. Cafisule obovate, opening 

 at the top with 5 spreading teeth, or short valves. Seeds 

 angular. 

 ^AB. In bogs and low wet grounds; generally near the salt 

 water. June — October. 



148. SABBATIA. A dan son. 



Calyx 5— 12-parted. Corolla rotate, 5—- 12-parted* 

 Stigmas 2, spiral. Jltithers at length revolute. Cap- 

 sule 1 -celled, 2-valved. A dans. Farad. Land. t. 

 32. Pursh Fl. I. p. 123. Nu 1 1. Gen. I. p. 134. 

 Roem. £s? Schult. Gen. 662. CHiRONiiE spp, L., 

 Mich.y &c. Nat. Ord. Gentian^e /m^^. 



1. S, campanulata* : leaves sublinear ; calyx as long as 

 the corolla. Cnmom k campamdata L. Sp.pl. 272. fVilld. 

 Spec. I. p» 1067. MuhL Cat. p. 23. C. gracilis Mich. 

 Fl. I. p. 1 46 .?t Sab. gracilis Pursh Fl.l.^. 137? 



" Stem a foot high, terete ; branches long. Leaves lanceolate- 

 linear, smooth. Flowers terminal, subsolitary, purple, seated 

 on long peduncles. Leaves of the calyx subulate, as long as 

 the corolla, ./int/iers spiral." Linn. 



Hab. In wet pastures. Pennsylvania to Carolina. Pursh. In 

 Maryland. Muhlenberg. 



It is somewhat doubtful whether the C. gracilis of Mi c ha u x 

 is the same as tlie C. campanulata which Ka I m found in Ca- 

 nada. They are considered synonymous by Pursh and 

 Mu hlenbergy but Le conte thinks they are quite dis- 

 tinct. 



2, S. stellaris Ph. : stem terete ; branches dichotomous, 

 elongated, 1 -flowered; leaves lanceolate, acute; segments 

 of the calyx subulate, half as long as the corolla; segments 

 of the corolla obovate. Pursh Fl. I. p. 137. Roem, 

 *$/• Sc Aw/ <. IV. p. 174. S. gracilis Elliott Sk. I. p. 284. 

 Chironia stellaia Mnhl. Cat. p« 23 .? 



Root biennial. Stem about a foot high, dichotomously branched 

 almost to the root, a little angular. Leaves sessile, about an 

 inch long, somewhat succulent. Flowers solitary at the extre- 

 mity of the branches, forming a sort of loose corymb. Calyx 

 turbinate, 5-cleft. Corolla bright rose-colour, with a yellow 

 star in the centre surrounded by a deep red border. Filaments 

 short, naked ; anthers linear, sagittate, terminal, at length re- 

 volute. Stigmas very long, spirally twisted. 



I C. gracilis: debilis ; ramis laxis, se»aceo-elongat)s, l-floris; foliis 

 rineari-setaceis ; calyce setaceo, coroUac subaquali. Mich, 1. c, 

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