ACHLYS. 



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ACHLYS Dec. Hooker. Leontice triphy- 

 ia Smitli, certainly a peciilitir genus. Cal. o. 

 Cor. o. Many naked stamens around a naked 

 pistil, anthers bilabiate bilobe, stigma sessile 

 oblique concave, fruit monosperm. Put by 

 Hooker next to Leontice, by Dec. next to Jeff- 

 ersotiia, unlike either except in habit and anth- 

 ers. Nearer to Diphylleia, differing by the 

 many naked stamens, — A. triphyla Dec. H. 

 Radical leaves with long petiols, 3 sessile foli- 

 oles flabellate, reticulate, repand sinuate : Scape 

 with a spike ot white flowers. Perennial. N. 

 W. America. 



ACHRAS SAPOTA L. said to grow in South 

 Florida and Texas : see medical flora vol, 2 



ACHYRANTHES, Our Sp. of this Genus 

 appear to form a peculiar Genus indicated by 

 Elliot, see Steiremis. The genera akin Gom- 

 phrena, lllecebriim, Celosia are yet in great 

 <Jonfusion like this; see Adoketon, Phylepi- 

 dum, Xerandra of mine, and Pliiloxerus. 



The A. repens of Elliot was a Gomphrena 

 of Linneus. 



AC3IELLA Richard, helepta Raf. Neog. 

 33. Differs from Heliopsis by Perianthe sim- 

 ple, or nearly so. The seeds in both are ob- 

 ovate, and truncate without teeth : leaves oppo- 

 site, flowers peduncled, autumnal, yellow rays, 

 disk blackish. 



I. Subgenus. Erpota, Raf. Perianthe 12 seg- 

 ments, rays 5 to 12 tridentate, seeds compres- 

 sed, sub4gone, chaff obovate. Creeping plants 

 annual ? 



I. A. Repens Persoon &c. Anthernis do. 

 Walt. Spilanthiis do, Mx. Well described 

 by Elliot. Creeping, leaves oval-lanceolate too- 

 thed, trinerve, peduncles long axillary terminal, 

 rays about 12. — In Carolina. 



