392 OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Ei-iLoiiiaM'. 



Cafisule an inch or more in length, obtusely quadrangular,- 

 Seeds crowned with a lung silky pappus, 

 Hab. In swamps and in wet woods. On the Hudson above Al- 

 bany. In the western and northern parts of the State of New- 

 York ; abundant. Near Boston, Massachusetts. Bii^elont). 

 In Pennsylvania. AIu hlenb erg. August. 



2. E. coloratum M u h I. : stem terete, pubescent ; leaves 

 lanceolate, senuhite, petiolate, opposite, smooth, with co- 

 loured veins ; the upper ones alternate. Willd. Enum. 

 Horl. BeroL p. 411. Pursh Fl. I. p. 261. Big. BosL 

 p. 90. E. novcboracense. Cold. J^ov. 88. 



Hooi perennial. Stem 3 — 4 feet high, much branched, more or 

 less softly pubescent ; the upper branches slightly marked by 

 4 decurrent lines from the base of the petioles. Leaves mostly 

 opposite, on very short petioles, obtuse at the base, smooth, 

 marked with numerous linear punctures, (seen under a lens); 

 veins beneath of a reddish colour; margin dentate-serrulate. 

 Flowers small, axillary towards the extremity of the branches, 

 alternate, pedicellate. Segments of the calyx lanceolate, acute. 

 Corolla purple; segments roundish, emarginate. Stamejis nn~ 

 equal, shorter than the corolla ; anthers oblong. Style scarcely 

 exserted ; stigma entire. Cafisule very narrow, 2 — 3 inches 

 long. Seeds oblong, sulcate. 



Hab. In wet meadows and swamps. July— August. 



Allied to E. tetragonum, but differing in the round stem, 

 Sec. 



3. E. rosmarinifolium Ph. : stem terete, pubescent, 

 branching above ; leaves linear, very entire ; those on the 

 stem opposite ; on the branches alternate ; flowers peduncu- 

 late ; petals bifid; stigma entire. Pursh Fl. I. p. 259. 

 E. lineare M uhl- Cat. p. 39. E. squamatum J^ ut t. Gen, 

 I. p. 250. E. oliganthum Mich, Fl. I. p. 22.} ? 



Hoot bulbous and scaly. Stem 1 — 2 feet high, slender, simple 

 below, but generally with a few erect branches above. Leaves 

 numerous, 1 — 2 inches long, scarcely one line broad, slightly 

 pubescent, with linear punctures. Flowers few, axillary, very 

 small, Ca/j/x about half as long as the corolla; segments 

 lanceolate. Corolla pale purple ; jietals obcordate. Stamens 

 unequal, not exserted. Stigma clavate, very entire. Capsule 

 linear, about 2 inches long. 



Hab. In swamps; rare. In the cedar swamp, near New-Dur- 

 ham, New- Jersey, See. August. 



Mu tt all has changed P urs h' s name of this species^ 

 because there is a species so called by H<e nke, but the lat- 

 ter is only a synonym of E. angicstissimum of Alton and 

 Wi lldenow, and others. Our plant may be the E. oligan* 

 ilium, of M i c h a u X, which, however, is too imperfectly de- 

 scribed to decide on with certainty. 



