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(The cap 5n\e o{ CletJir a ahnfolia possesses a similar struc- 

 lure, exceprmg- that the capsules are but 3 in place of 5, 

 and do not separate spontaneously in consequence of be- 

 ins^ inseparably united at the base.) Indigenous also to 

 Siberia. Almost the only species in upper Louisiana. 5. 

 a-iigu5tifoJia. Fh. Nearly allied to the preceding. 6. nitlda. 

 Fascicles of flowers axillary, subracemose. In swamps 

 from North Carolina to Florida. 7- axillaris. Obs. Leaves 

 oblong-oval, sublanceolate, acuminate, upper part carti- 

 laginously serrulate, serratures mucronate, under side 

 scattered witii minute glandular hairs; younger branches 

 also pulverulently pubescent; racemes axillary, spiked, 

 sessile, imbricately bractcate; corolla cylindric-ovate, an- 

 thers awnless. — Stigma capitate. Capsule globular, de- 

 pressed; septum indivisible, as in the preceding, llecep- 

 tacular bodies 5, pendulous from the summit of the axis, 

 each conspicuously pedicellate. Seeds brownish, angu- 

 lar, and truncate at the lower extremity. A. spinidosa of 

 Fursh is certainly the same species with the present, in 

 which oval leaves are not uncommon. Hab. From Vir- 

 ginia to Florida, and westward throughout the mountains 

 of North Carolina into East Tennessee. 8. acuminata. 9. 

 Jionbiinila. Discovered and so named by the late Mr. 

 John Lyon. A very elegant species. 



Species rAth deciduous leaves. 

 10. mariana. An extremely fine, common, and hardy 

 species, possessing somewhat the habit o^ A. mVzt/awhen 

 flowering again in the autumn; its vernal flowering 

 branches are, however, nearly naked. II. speciosa. From 

 "Nirginia to Florida. I have never seen the vai'iety /«<^t;e- 

 rulenta except in a singular locality of a few miles in 

 North Carolina, not very far from Wilmington; it is un- 

 doubtedly a distinct and natural variety, but scarcely a 

 species. 12. racemosa. Anthers 4-awned; racemes secund, 

 calix bibractea^e atthe base; style cylindric, stigma indis- 

 tinct. Leaves serrulate, somewhat pubescent on the un- 

 der side. 13. arborea. (Called Sour-wood.) Racemes, pa- 

 niculate; flowers secund, pubescent. Style pentangular, 

 stigma indistinct. Capsule pubescent ovate; septum indi- 

 visible. Seeds subulate, longitudinally imbricated. 



Principally a North x\merican genus; at the same time 

 there are 3 species in the island of Jamaica, 1 Ir the island 

 of St, Thomas, 4 or 5 in other parts of tropical America, 

 and 1 at the Straights of Magellan; Japan affords a sin- 

 gle species, the islands of the Pacific as fa,r as New Zealand 

 4 or 5, and Europe with Siberia 6. 



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