338 HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. prinos. 



fl tenuifolivs* : leaves obovate, membranaceous, smooth 

 beneath ; pistilliferous flowers 4— 6-cleft, subsolitary. P. 

 padifolius Willd. Ejxum, Ilort. Berol. p. 394 ? 



A shriib about 5 feet high ; branches very slender. Leaves pe- 

 liolate, ancinately serrate, obtuse, or with a short abrupt acu- 

 mination, smooth beneath, except a slight pubescence on the 

 midrib. Pistilliferous Jioivers on very short pedicels, gene- 

 rally solitary. Berries scarlet. ^ , , ^r 



Hab. In the cedar swamp, near New-Durham, New-Jersey. 



This may possibly be the V. ambiguus ot Pur s hy but 

 not of Michau x. It is scarcely a distinct species. 



2. P. ambiguus M i c H. : leaves deciduous, oval, acumi- 

 nate at each end; flowers 4-cleft; staminiferous ones crowded 

 on the lower branchlets ; pistilliferous solitary. Mich. Fl. 

 II. p. 236. Pwrs/i F/. 1. p. 220? JV m U. Gen. I. p» 213o 



A small tree with smooth whitish bark. Leaves elliptical-oval, 

 entire, with a mucronulate point, smooth on both sides, an inch 

 and a half long, and one inch broad ; petioles nearly half aa 

 inch lung. Pistilliferous flowers on long peduncles. Nu 1 1, 



Hab. Near Philadelphia. Barton, 



3. P. Icevigaius Ph. : leaves deciduous, lanceolate, with 

 adpressed serratures, smooth on both sides, shining above j 

 nerves beneath scarcely pubescent ; flowers 6-cleft ; pistilli- 

 ferous axillary, solitary, subsessile ; staminiferous scattered^ 

 Piers h Fl. 1. p. 320. Muhl. Cat. p. 36 ? 



A shrub 6 — 8 feet high ; branches gray, minutely verrucosa 

 Leaves about 2 and a half inches long, and three-fourths of an 

 inch broad, petiolate, acute at each extremity, obsoletely ser* 

 rulate, smooth on both sides, except on the nerves beneath, 

 which are a little pubescent. , Pedicels of the staminiferous 

 flowers often an inch long. Pistilliferous flowers on pedicels 

 about 2 lines long. Berries red. 



Hab. In swamps. Near Philadelphia, and in the pine barrens 

 of New- Jersey. Also in the cedar swamp, near New-Dur- 

 ham, N. J. June. 



I suspect this to be the plant described by W« f r a H as the 

 P. ambiguus. There is little doubt that it is Pursh' s P, 

 Itevigatus. 



4. P. glaber L. : leaves sempervirent, cuneate-lanceo- 

 late, coriaceous, smooth and shining, subdentate at the extre- 

 mity ; pedicels axillary, subsolitary, mostly 3-flowered. 

 ffU/rf. Spec,; IL p. 226. jiit. Kew. hip. ATS. Mich. 

 F/. II. p. 236. Pttrj/i FM. p.220. W al L Car,], ipi 

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