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above, constricted at the base. Stamina 5, inclosed in 

 the tube of the corolla, unequal, anthers roundish. Style 

 filiform, about the length of the tube; stigma very short, 

 trifid. Capsule obovate, shorter than the calix, with 3 

 obtuse angles, and as many intermediate salient furrows, 

 cells 3, seeds 3, valves 3, obcordate, carthaceous; recepta- 

 cle 3-sided, margined, margins parallel to the dissepiments 

 of the valves. Seed cylindric-oblong, coated with a mu- 

 cilaginous, insoluble, fibrous, and tenacious integument, 

 only visible after immers'on in water. 



Hab. Near the banks of the Missouri, about the conflu- 

 ence of Shian river, and in the vicinity of the Arikaree vil- 

 lage, in moist places. Flowering in June; flower violace- 

 ous. It appears to be the same plant figured by Cavanil- 

 les, and first discovered in Chili. In upper Louisiana, or 

 above the confluence of the Platte and the Missouri, we 

 no longer meet with any species of Phlox. To this genus 

 probably also belongs Phlox bijlova of Chili, which is also 

 annual, but the habit appears to be different. 



195. POLEMONJUM. i. (Jacob's-Iadder.) 

 Calix subcampanulale, 5-cIeft. Corolla some- 

 what rotate, 5-lobed, tube short, closed at its 

 base by 5 staminiferons valves or scales. Stig- 

 -ma trifid. Capsule 3 celled, superior. 



Herbaceous; leaves alternate, pseudo pinnate; flowers 

 somev.hat corymbose, terminal, blue, varying to white. 



Species. 1. P. reptans. Stem leaves 3 and 4 pair 

 (from 7 to 9) margin of the common petiole subciliate; par- 

 tial leaves elliptic-ovate, 3-nerved, flowers nutant, capsule 

 (by abortion) mostly 3-seeded. — The seeds of this plant, 

 after maceration, exhibit something analogous to that of 

 the preceding genus, but the mucilaginous fibres are at- 

 tached only to one extremity. 



This genus appears as yet to contain but 2 genuine spe- 

 cies; the other is common to Europe and Asia. 



196. SOLANUM. Z. (Night-shade.) 



Calix 5 -cleft, persistent. Corolla rotate, or 

 campanulate, 5-lobed, plaited. Anthers partly 

 united, emiting the pollen by 2 pores at the 

 point. Berry 2-celled, many- seeded. 



Stem herbaceous or shrubby, naked or aculeate, rarely 

 spiny; leaves simple, often sinuately lobed, sometimes un- 



