EiLENB. DECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. 451 



Root perennial, creeping. Stem mostly erect, simple, about a 

 foot high, pubescent. Radical leaves oblong-spathulatc ; pe- 

 tioles villous ; stem leaves lanceolate. Panicle dichotomous, 

 few-flowered. Calyx subventricose above, with the teeth a 

 little sprea,ding. Petals crimson, deeply 2 -cleft, much longer 

 than the calyx. Stamens unequal, exserled. 



Hab. In Pennsylvania. Mu hleJiberg. June. This spe- 

 cies abounds in the Southern and Western States. Elliott 

 remarks, that it varies with the lobes of the petals entire and 

 divided. In all my specimens the lobes are bifid. 



3. S. antirrhina L, : leaves lanceolate, minutely ciliate ; 

 panicles trichotomous ; calyx ovate ; petals small, bifid ; sta- 

 mens included. fVilid, Spec. II. p. 316. Pursh Fl.l. 

 p. 316. Elliott Sk. I. ip^ 517. Walt. Car. p. 141. 

 Gron. Virg. 50, P luk. Aim. 23\. t. '203. {. 1. Dill. 

 Elth. t. 313. f. 403. 



Raot annual. Stetn 1— -2 feet high, erect, terete, slender, pu- 

 bescent below, dichotoraous at the summit. Radical leaves 

 spathulate-lanceolate ; stem leaves linear-lanceolate. Floivera 

 on long peduncles, in terminal trichotomous panicles. Calyx 

 smooth, ovate, green, IQ-nerved, with 5 short acute teeth at 

 the summit. Petals expanding in the evening, or in moist 

 weather, a little longer than the calyx, slightly crowned, some- 

 times wanting ; limb white, or with a tinge of purple, notched 

 at the extremity. Stamens a Uttle shorter than the calyx. 

 Cafisule ovate, opening at the summit by 6 teeth. Seeds very 

 numerous, subreniform, scabrous. 



Hab. Qn dry hills and on the banks of riverso June. 



4. S. noctuma L.: flowers spiked, alternate, sessile, se- 

 cund ; petals bifid. IFilld. S/?fc. U. p. 692. Pursh Fl. 

 I. p. 316, Dill. El'lh. 420. t. 310. f. 400. 



Root annual. Inferior leaves obovate, concave, rigid. Flowers 

 'sessile, alternate. Petals white, bifid, rather large, greenish 

 beneath, not red after flowering. L i n. 



Hab. In Pennsylvania. Muhlenberg. Nazareth, Penn. 

 Schiv einit z. 



Resembles Cucubalus rejlexusy but the stem is more 

 branched and taller, and the petals are spreading beyond the 

 calyx. L i n. This species is said, to be also a nativo of Spain 

 an«l the south of France. 



304. STELLARIA. L. 



'Calyx 5-leaved. Petak 5, deeply cleft. Capsule 

 1-celled, opening with 6 teeth, many-seeded. Gen. 

 pi. 773. .Vu 1 1. Gen. I. p. 289. Ju s s. p. 301. 



