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bWe, more than an inch long-, about half a line wide; seeds 

 naked. This species, in every respect but the seed, makes 

 a near approach to Epilobium. 



$ II. Capsules ventricose, ang-2clar, mostly pedicellate. 



11. _q-lauca. Leaves broad-oval, very smooth and i^laucous. 

 12. fpcticosa. Partly villous; leaves "linear-lanceolate, sub- 

 denticulate, acute; petals obcordate,as broad as long-; calix 

 acuminate; capsule quadrangular, pubescent, oblonjr-cla- 

 vate, pedicellate; raceme naked belo^v. Bot. Magaz 332. 

 Stem simple, leaves when held betwixt the lii;ht, {)uiictate 

 (through a common lens,) puictures very numerous and 

 hnear, similar to tiiose of Lysimachia qnadrifoUay but co- 

 lourless and diaphanous. 



/3. » ambigua more or less pilose; stem simple; leaves 

 lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, acute, subdenticulate, pe- 

 tals obcordate, longer than broad; points of the calix very 

 short; capsule subsessite, always smooth, oblong, and 4- 

 winged; raceme naked below. Hab. Common around 

 Philadelphia with the preceding; apparently a distinct 

 species. Stem simple, leaves linearly punctate (through a 

 iens,) stem more slender, flowers smaller and usually of 

 a brighter yellow. In dry and exposed situations, this 

 species, if such it may be considered, becomes very hairv, 

 in wet places often perfectly smooth.— My attention has 

 been directed to these discriminations through the polite- 

 ness of professor Barton. 



13. * incana. Stem low, slender, and erect; leaves flat, 

 hoary nnd tomentose, very enure, elliptic-ovate, acute; ra- 

 ceme few-flowered, naked, capsules subsessile, oblong and 

 quadrangular. IIab. In dry woods, Maryland.— Dr. W. 

 C. Barton, r.s. in Herb. Barton. Stem 6 or 8 inches high, 

 flowers bright yellow. Allied to (E. fnisticosa, /3. ambi. 

 gua. 



14. Fraseri, Ph. 15. pitmila. 



16. *ripana. Nearly smooth; stem erect and virgately 

 branched; leaves linear-lanceolate acute, distantly subden- 

 ticidate, flat and rather thick; capsules spiked, distinctly 

 stipitate, obovate, 8-grooved, valves dorsally ridged. Hab. 

 on the banks of Cape Fear river, Wilmington, North (Jar- 

 ohna, in situations subject to inimdation; often attacned 

 to dri it-wood. Obs. Biennial. Stem about 2 feet high» 

 much branched above, almost entirely smooth, except in 

 an early state, branches brown. Root leaves lanceolate, 

 distantly denticulate, as are also those of the stem, smooth 

 and lucid, rather thick; stem . leaves attenuated at both 

 extremities, linear-lanceolate, almost imperceptibly and 

 glaiidularly denticulate, a little perbe-.cent on the margin^ 

 opaque betwixt the light, two to two aod a half inches 



