PENTANDRTA. MONOGYNIA. 113 



€ynoglossum glomeratiiniy Pursh. Flor, Am. 2- p. 729. T 

 N. in Fras. Gatai. 1813. 



Root biennial. Stem erect, entirely simple, 6 to 12 

 inches high. Radical leaves villous, spathulate-obovate, 

 obtuse, somewhat hoary; one to one and a half inches 

 lon,^; stem leaves spathulate-linear, rather hispid and 

 somewhat acute, sessile. Spikes very sliort, axillary, bi- 

 fid, pedunculate, peduncles mostly shorter than the leaves, 

 flowers crowded, appearing almost in heads, approximat- 

 ing together towards tiie summit. Calix deeply 5-parted, 

 villous, and also thickly set with sharp liispid hairs. Co- 

 rolla white, oriiice closed, lobes rounded, entire, nearly 

 flat, rather large; tube constricted near the base. Stami- 

 na sessile, included beneath the arched protuberances of 

 the orifice. Stigma entire, capitate. Seeds narrow, ovate, 

 acute, with an elevated scabrous or minutely crenate 

 ridge in the centre. 



On arid agillaceous hills around the Great Bend of the 

 JNJissouri. Flowering in June. 



The genus JSfyosotis is chiefly European, at the same 

 time there are species in Peru, at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, in Siberia, 1 species in New Zealand, 1 in Chili, 

 and another in the isle of Bourbon. 



iro. LlTHOSPERMUxM. L. (Gromwell.) 



Calix 5-parted. CoroUa funnel- form, 5-Iobed, 

 orifice open, naked. Stigma biiid. Seed indurat- 

 ed, shining. (Stamina and st>le included vvitii- 

 in the corolla.) 



Flowers solitar}-, axillary, or In terminal bracteate 

 spikes; floral leaves sometimes bv pairs. 



Species. 1. L. arveiise. 2. lat: folium, o.angmilfdvum. 

 4. apuJum. 



X)\ this genus there are 5 species in Peru and the warm* 

 er parts of Spanish America, 2 ai the Cape of Good Hope, 

 5 in Egypt and the East, 1 x>n the nitrose banks of the 

 Volga, (Siberia) 1 around ancient Bagdad in Persia, and 

 another m tiie isle of Teautea in the Pacific; the rest m 

 Europe and .North \merica. I'iie roots of several species 

 afford a lac for dying and painting. 



in. BATSCHIA. Gmeliiu Michaux. 



Calix 5-patt'd. Corolla salverform, rather 

 large, tiihe straight, much linger tiian the ca- 

 lix; closed at tho Ibase by a bearded ring; ori- 



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