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lower surface marked with scattered indistinct vesicular dots. The inflores- 

 cence assumes a scorpioid form : the peduncles usually fork at the base of 

 the pedicel of the earliest flower, but seldom if ever afterwards: beyond this 

 the divisions of the peduncle are prolonged indefinitely, bearing a solitary 

 almost or quite sessile (central or alar) flower at each node. Corolla brown- 

 ish-purple (rarely cream-colored !) ; the lobes acuminate-cuspidate. Fruit 

 clothed with dense white bristles. — The leaves of our var. /3. are said by Dr. 

 Darlington, not to have the sweet taste which characterizes G. circajzans : 

 that plant is usually perhaps sufficiently distinct in appearance, but the fre^ 

 quent intermediate states seem to forbid their separation. We suppose our 

 var. y. to be a state of this species growing upon high mountains ; but our 

 specimens are insufficient. The stems are 4-6 inches long, and the leaves 

 large in proportion. — Wild Liquorice. 



14. G. latifolium (Michx.) : stem erect, smooth; leaves 4 in a whorl, laii-' 

 ceolate, acute, 3-nerved, punctate with oblong pellucid dots, glabrous; thd 

 margins and midrib mintitely hispid-ciliolate ; peduncles axillary and termi- 

 nating the short branches, twice or thrice dichotomous, and with the filiform 

 pedicels divaricate or spreading ; fruit (pretty large) glabrous. — Michx. ! fli 

 l.p. 79 ; DC. ! jJrodr. 4. p. 599. 



^. leaves rather rigid, less acute ; pedicels and ovaries sparsely and mi- 

 nutely scabrous. — G. latifolium, Hook, conqmn. to bat. mag. 1. j). 48. 



On the Alleghany Mountains of North and South Carolina, Micliaux ! 

 Fraser (in herb. DC.) and of Georgia, Mr. Buckley! (i. Missouri (or Arkan- 

 sas ?) J)r. iCwo-eZmaww / June-July. — Stem a foot or more high. Leaves 

 1-2 inches long, tapering from near the base to the apex, rather acute at each 

 end; the whorls somewhat distant. "Flowers violet-purple." Michx. — « 

 We have seen the specimens in the herbaria of Michaux and De Candolle^ 

 but have only recently received the plant from Mr. Buckley, who states that 

 it is verv common on the Alleghany Mountains : our specimen is in fruit. The 

 variety from Dr. Engelmann is in the same state, and only difiers (besides 

 the slight characters indicated above), in having the whorls more approxima- 

 ted. It is a well-marked species. 



* * * Floivcrs ifhite ; the peduncles disposed in a terminal panicle. 



15. G.boreale (Linn.): stem erect, straight, smoothish; leaves 4 in a 

 whorl, linear-lanceolate, strongly 3-nerved, rather obtuse ; panicle elongated, 

 somewhat pyramidal ; fruit hispid with short scarcely uncinate hairs, or 

 sometimes glabrous. — Linn, sjiec. 1. x>- ^^^ >' Pursh, fi. 1. p. 104 ; Torr. ! 

 fl.l.p. 169 ; Hook. ! fl. Bor.-Am. I. p. 289 ; Darlinsi. fl- Ccst. p. 103. G. 



Bermudianum, Muhl. cat. p. 16. (ex herb., fide Darlingt.) G. strictum, 

 Torr.! cat.j>l. New York. ])• 23. G. septentrionale, Rmvi. S^' Schult. syst. 3. 

 p. 253 ; Bigel.! fi. Bost. ed. 2. p. 54 ; DC. ! prodr. 4. p. 601. 



Woods and rockv banks of streams, Northern States! and Canada! to 

 Arctic America and Oregon ! July. — Stem 1-2 feet high, somewhat branch- 

 ing, often pubescent at the nodes. Leaves 10-18 Hues long, often rather 

 broadly lanceolate, and slightly ciliate when young in the American plant. 

 Lobesof the corolla acute. — There is an European variety with glabrous 

 fruit, and another with the ovary very slightly and sparsely hispid : both 

 these states occur not unfrequently in this country. 



16. G. ruhioides (Linn.) : stem erect, straight, smoothish ; leaves 4 in a 

 whorl, elliptical-lanceolate, strongly 3-nerved, scabrous on the margin ; pe- 

 duncles numerous, trichotomous, disposed in a large terminal panicle; fruit 

 glabrous. — Linn. spec. 1. p. 105; Cham. S^- Schlecht. in Linneea, 3. p. 220 ; 

 DC. prodr. 4. p. 599 ; Hook. 8^ Arn. bot. Becchey, p. 115; Hook.fi. Bor.- 

 Am. \.p. 289. 



Dry elevated soils, under pine trees, in the valley of the Oregon, Douglas, 



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