106 BIADEIPHIA. DECANDXJIA. 



505. STYLOSANl^HES. Swartx. 



Calix tubulous and very lo!i,q, bearing the co- 

 rolla. Germ beneath the i oroila. Loment with 1 

 or 2 articulations, hooked. 



Herbaceous; leaves ternatc, stipules sheathing, adnate 

 to the petiole; bractcs Ciliate; flowers yellow. 



Species. 1. S. elatior. Swartz. S. hispida. Mich. Pluk. 

 Amalth. 182. t. 447. f. 7- Oes. Flowers conglomerate .3 or 

 4 together, invested by ciliate sheathing bractes; leaves 

 sublinear-lanceolate, acute, smooth and naked; stem erect; 

 loment indurated, 1-seeded. Common from Pennsylva- 

 nia to Carolina. Flowers golden yellow, 



A small tropical genus of 6 species indigenous to Ame- 

 rica, with the exception of a single one in India. 



506. GLYCYRRHIZA. Z. 



Calix mostly bilabiate, gibbous at the base. 

 Vexillum including the wings and carina. Le- 

 gume subovate or oblong, compressed, and most- 

 ly hispid, 2 to 6-seeded. 



Herbaceous; leaves pinnate, stipules cauline; flowei's ca- 

 pitate, spiked or racemose. 



Species. 1. G. lepidota. T. N. in Fras. Catal. Ph. 2. p. 

 480. Leaflets oblong-lanceolate, acute, every where squa- 

 mulose, under surface covered with glandulous atoms; 

 spikes axillary, acute, flowers crowded; legume oblong, 

 many-seeded, echinate, seise uncinate. Hab. Abundant 

 around St. Louis, where it was first detected by Mr. John 

 Bradbury, F. L. S.; it is also common on the alluvial 

 banks of the Missouri tn tlie Mountains, and is in all proba- 

 bility tlie Liquorice mentioned by Sir A Mackenzie as in- 

 digenous to the coasts of the North Pacific Ocean. Oes. 

 Koots flagelliform, creeping, and very long, possessing in 

 no inconaiderable degree the taste of liquorice. Stem 

 erect, 3 to 5 feet liigh.; spikes pedunculate; flowers whitish, 

 dense, sessile; calix almost ecj^ually 5-parlcd, segments 

 subula'e. Vexiilum ovate-oblong', nearly straight. Le- 

 gume oblong, con, pressed, hispid, 5 or 6-seeded, much 

 resembling the fruit of Xanthium spinosnm, not sponta- 

 neously opening. Nearly allied to G.foetida, and like 

 that species emitting a somewhat disagreeable resinous 

 odor. This plant appears to destroy tiie artificial distinc- 

 tions by which Glijcyrrhiza and Liqniritia have been sepa- 



