g80 PENTANDRIA. DiGYNLL asolepus; 



cells of 2 adjoining lobes or anthers. Germens 2, distinct i 

 styles 2y short; s^i^-rwa discoid, pentangular. FoUiclts about 

 3 inches long, armed with sharp soft spines. Seeds imbricated, 

 roundish, flat, pendulous, crowned with a tuft of long silky- 

 fibres. 

 Hab. In sandy fields and on road sides ; very common. July — ■ 

 August. 



9. A. phytolacroides Ly oni stem erect, simple; leaves 

 broad-lanceolate, acuminate, smooth, pale beneath ; umbels 

 mail) -flowered, lateral and terminal, solitary, on long pedun" 

 cles, nodding; nectary bidentate. Pursh F/. 1. p. 180-. 

 E lliott Sk. \,^. 3\0. ^futt. Gen. ]. p. 166, Roem, 

 ^ S c hul t, VI. p^ 69. A. exaltata et acuminata M u h I 

 Cat. p. 27. 



Stem 3 — 4 feet high, slender. Leaves 6 — 8 inches long, 2 — 3 broadj 

 acute at each extremity, a little pubescent beneath. Umbels on 

 peduncles 2—3 inches long. Flowers 6 — 10; fiedicels about 

 an inch and a half long. Flowers as large as in the preceding 

 species, sweet scented. Segments of the calyx one-third the 

 length of the corolla, lanceolate, acute. Corolla greenish" 

 white, often with a tinge of purple ; segments elliptical, acute. 

 Leaflets of the nectary whitish, truncate, with minute inter- 

 mediate processes; margins inflected, with the upper angle on 

 each side terminating in a cusp or sharp toooth ; horn dis- 

 tinctly exserted ; tube conspicuous. Follicles not seen. 



Hab. In shady swamps, and in rocky wet woods. On the Island 

 of New-York, near the old Botanic Garden. In the Highlands 

 of New -York. Barratt. Near Deerfield, Massachusetts. 

 Coo ley and Hitchcock. In the neighbourhood of Phi- 

 ladelphia. June-^July, 



3. A, variegata L. : stem simple, erect; leaves ovate;, 

 petiolate, smooth ; umbels lateral and terminal, on short pe- 

 duncles, crowded; pedicels tomentose ; horn broad-falcatCe 

 IV ill d. Spec, I. p. 1265. Bot, Mag. 1182, Pursh FL 

 I. p. 181. Elliott Sk.], p. Sn, J^utt. Gen. I. p. 167. 

 W a 1 1. Car. p. \(U. R o em, <^ S c hult.W, p. 74. A. 

 hyhrida Mich. FL L p. Il5. 



Root horizontal. Stem 3—4 feet high, a little pubescent to- 

 wards the top. Leaves slightly acuminate, often a little un- 

 dulate, paler beneath, a little pubescent on the midrib and 

 margin ; base acute; fietiole about half an inch long. Umbels 

 generally 2, near the summit of the stem, 20— SO-flowered ; 

 peduncles about as long as the petioles ; pedicels less than an 

 inch in length. Ca/j/;«: hairy ; segments lanceolate. Corolla 

 white, sometimes with a tinge of purple. Leaflets of the nec- 

 tary white, slightly cucuUate, not toothed; Aorra or centra! 

 process very hard, awned, subexserted ; tube short, purplish. 

 Follicles smooth. 



