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North America, Willdenow. — Leaves nearly as in Lithospermum offici- 

 nale. Willd. I. c. — Cauline leaves long, triplinerved, scabrous. Flowers 

 rather large. Link. — Stem pubescent, somewhat hispid. Leaves apicu- 

 late with a callous mucronation, somewhat triplinerved, the lateral veins 

 minute. DC. — Pursh,who professes to have seen this species growing, gives 

 the habitat, Sandy barren woods, New Jersey to Carolina ; but affords no 

 other information. 



85. jS. gracilis (Poir.) : stem erect, glabrous, somewhat simple ; leaves 

 lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, glabrous, ciliolate, feather-veined ; the lower 

 oval-lanceolate, attenuate at the base; the upjiermost nearly entire; ra- 

 cemes erect, bearing few heads disposed in a narrow panicle; scales of the 

 involucre scarcely acute; flowers 9; those of the ray nearly twice the length 

 of the disk. DC. — Poir. did. 8. p. 476? (where the leaves are said to be 

 entire) DC. pi. rar. hort. Genev. 6. p. 6, c^ prodr. 5. p. 336. 



North America? — The plant is said to be a foot and a half high, with a 

 reddish stem ; the largest leaves 2 inches long, 6-8 lines wide ; the branches 

 terminated by erect "panicles, 2-3 inches in length, less than an inch in 

 breadth : the ovaries clothed with very small appressed hairs. The latter 

 character, among others, would seem to separate the plant from S. stricta 

 and S. linoides. 



86. S. Schraderi (DC.) : stem erect, terete, sparsely pubescent, panicu- 

 lately branched ; leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate at the apex, 

 glabrous, with somewhat scabrous margins, the uppermost entire; racemes 

 erect, very short, bracleolate ; scales of the involucre acute ; rays linear, as 

 long as the disk. DC. prodr. 5. p. 336. S. gracilis, Schrad. hort. Gostt., 

 fide DC. 



A species of unknown (probably N. American) origin, allied to the prece- 

 ding; but the leaves longer, narrower, and a little more rigid; the long pani- 

 culate branches bearing very short axillary racemes for a long distance ; the 

 rays much shorter, &c. DC. 



87. S. carinala (Schrad. in DC.) : stem erect, angled at the summit, 

 somewhat puberulent; radical leaves on long petioles, oblong, tapering at 

 the base, obtuse at the apex, mucronate, sinuate-serrate ; the upper sessile, 

 linear, somewhat serrate ; all glabrous, with the margins scabrous, the mid- 

 rib prominent beneath; racemes erect, disposed in a panicle; rays 7-9, 

 longer than the disk. DC. jnodr. 5. p. 337. 



Cultivated in the Goettingen Botanic Garden, the origin unknown, perhaps 

 North American. — Radical leaves 7 inches long, including the petiole, 8-10 

 lines broad. Pedicels puberulent, bracteolate. DC. — Perhaps a cultivated 

 state of S. stricta. 



88. S. mollis (Bartl.) : leaves, as well as the terete stem, pulverulent- 

 pubescent, with scabrous margins, obovate-oblong, serrate above ; the floral 

 ones oblong, entire; racemes erect, panicled ; scales of the involucre ap- 

 pressed, acute, glabrous ; rays longer than the disk. Bartl. ind. sem. hort. 

 GcEtt. 1836, p. 5, S^-in Linntea, 12. suppl. p. 80 ; DC. prodr. 7. p. 279. 



North America ; raised from seed collected by Prince Neu-wied. — May it 

 be a state of S. nemoralis ? 



* * Racemes spreading or recurved, secund. 



89. S. verrucosa (Schrad.) : stem verrucose, glabrous, erect, the summit 

 reflexed ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, serrate, glabrous, the upper nar- 

 rower ; racemes axillary, as long as the leaves, compound, the summit re- 

 flexed; rays elliptical. ''Schrad. hort. Gcett. p. 12. t. 6, S^- in neu. jour. 

 1810, p. 140 ; ex DC. prodr. 6. p. 334. 



