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the length of the tube, and come out of the 

 bell-fhaped neclarium ; two of them are hairy 

 below : the anther a grow together into an ob* 

 long cylinder : the pjiillum is of the length 

 of the filaments : the germen is almoft egg- 

 fhaped : the Jiyhis is filiform : the fiigma is 

 bifid or bilabiated : the capfulc is egg-fhaped : 

 the feeds are numerous, and very fmall. The 

 plant grows in watry and fliady places, and 

 creeps : the Jlalk is round : the leaves are al- 

 ternate, cordated, crenated, fmooth, petio- 

 lated : the flowerfialks, or peduncles, are axil- 

 lar, are the length of the leaves, and each 

 bears only one flower : the flowers are blue. 



Evolvulus alfinoides is a very fmall, but 

 fine and fcarce plant, which likewife was an 

 inhabitant of a barren mountain ; and at a 

 diftance looked like flax : the calyx is quinque- 

 fid, with (tid.Yp figments, which arefhorter than 

 the corolla; this is monopetalous and inflated : 

 the five filaments are fhorter than the corolla ; 

 the anther a are oblong : the germen is fingle : 

 the fiylus quadrifid : the ftigmas entire. The 

 plant is of the length of a fpan, and looks like 

 the common flax. 



HedysaruiM iriflorum', the flower of this 

 plant has eight anwera, whereof one is fingle, 



but 



