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sp. 3. p. 1457, f cat. p. 71; Pwr.fA, Ji. 2. p. 377; Bigel.fi. Host. p. 280. 

 H. punctatuin, Beck, but. p. 61 ; JJinlingt. fi. L'ist. p. 322. H. iiiicran- 

 thuiii, IInok.fi. Bor.-Am. I. p. 109. H. Virginicum, Malt. Cur. p. IbO. 



U{)ou woods, meadows, etc. Canada! to Pi'iiusylvauia ! west to Arkansas! 

 July- Aug. — Stem li-2 feet high. Leaves 1-2 inches long, closely sessile, 

 usually more or less clasping, rarely narrowed at the base, pellucid-punctate. 

 Flowers small: sepals marked with linear pellucid puncluros besides the 

 black dots. Petals nearly 3 times as long as tlie sepals, usually thickly dot- 

 ted with black. Siigmas capitate, orange-red. 



/"ll. //. niacnlatnm (Walt.): every part of the plant marked with black 

 dots ; stem terete, glaucous, corymbosely branched above ; cymes many-How- 

 ered, corymbed; leaves cordate-oblong, clasping; sepals lanceoiate, acute; 

 glandularly denticulate on the margin ; styles OiStinei. nearly twice as long 

 a.s the ovary.— ir<///. Car. p. 189; Mkkx.fi. 2. p. 80; Ell. sk. 2. p. 27. 

 H. punctatum, Laui. diet. 4. p. 164; DC.prodr. 1. p. 547. H. micranthum, 

 Chats, prodr. Hyp. p. 44. t. 5, ^ in DC. I. c. 



Pine barrens, South Carolina, Walter, Elliott ; Georgia, Le Conte I 

 Middle l^lorida, J)r. Chapman! July-Aug. — Stem 2-4 teet high, much 

 branched above. Leaves 1-1 i inch long, sometimes rather acute. Flowers 

 very numerous, as large as in the preceding species. Petals obovate-oblong. 

 Styles dilated and divariate at the base : stigmas capitate. Capsule conical- 

 ovate. Seeds roundish-ovate, minutely striate. — Nearly related to the pre- 

 ceding species, but probably distinct. The black dots in these species, are 

 minute vesicles tilled with an intensely purple coloring matter, which is so- 

 luble in water. 



§ 3. Stamens very numeroxcs, more or less polyadelphous : capsule 1-cell- 

 ed, with 3 (rarely 4) parietal placentce, which are often somewhat 

 introfiexed but do not reach the axis, seminiferous anteriorly (next 

 the axis). Perennial herbs, or lo^v shrubs. 



* Shrubby or suffrulicosc. 



12. H. aureum (Bartram) : widely branched above, the ultimate branches 

 ancipital ; leaves oblong, obtuse, attenuate at the base, glaucous beneath, mi- 

 nutely undulate-crisped on the margin, somewhat coriaceous ; flowers large, 

 nearly solitary and sessile ; petals (orange-yellow) coriaceous, reflexed, longer 

 than the ovate unequal sepals and the excessively numerous stamens ; cap- 

 sule (red) ovoid-conical, almost bony, acuminate with the connate styles. — 

 Bartr. trav. p. 383. H. amoenum, Pursh. fi. 2. p. 375 ; Nutt. ! sen. 2. p. 16 ; 

 Ell. sk. 2. p. 31 ; DC. prodr. 1. p. 544. H'. frondosum, Michx.fi. 2. p. 81 ? ; 

 Muhl.! cat. p. 11. 



On the Patse-Liga creek, a branch of Flint River, Georgia, Bartram, Dr. 

 Boykin ! Baldwin! In South Carolina and Georgia, Lyon, ex Pursh. 

 June-Aug. — Shrub 2-4 feet high. Leaves li-2 inches long, half an inch or 

 more wide, very minutely pellucid-punctate, obscurely veined. Flowers on 

 very short pedicels, or ordinarily more properly sessile in the upper pair 

 of bract-like leaves. Petals often nearly an inch in length, somewhat rhom- 

 boidal-ovate, often with a lateral tooth, persistent. Capsule small, not lobed. 

 — A splendid, but very local species, not extending eastward beyond the 

 Oakmulgee River, according to Elliott & Dr. Boykin. H. frondosum, Michx. 

 wliich we doubtfully refer to this species, was found in Tennessee. 



v^ 13. H. myrtifolium (Lam.) : stem terete, simple or corymbosely branched 

 above ; leaves cordate-oblong, clasping, obtuse, coriaceous and almost vein- 

 less,, somewhat glaucous ; cymes fastigiat^, compound, very leafy ; dichoto- 

 mal flowers nearlv sessile; sepals ovate, at length reflexed, about the length 



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