443 MoNADELFHiA PENTANDRiA. Illecebrum. 



Icon. Jaccj. amer. t. 60. f. 4. 



On the sea-coast: Carolina to Florida, 1/. July, Aug. 

 V. V. Resembles the former one. 

 vervncnla- 3. I. glabrum; caulibus repentibus, foliis subteretibus car- 

 tum. nosis, capitulis solitariis terminalibus oblongis. — Sp. 



pi. 300. 



Gomphrena vermicularis. lVilld.sp.pl. I. p. 1322. 



Icon. Henn. purad. t. 15. Pluk. aim. t. "j^.f. 9- 



On the sea-coast : Carolina to Florida. }/ . June — Aug. 

 V. s. 

 dichotomum. 4. I. caulibus suffruticosis diffusis, foliis linearibus planis 

 acutis margine scabriSj cyma dichotoma. — Willd. sp. 

 pi. 1. p. 1196. 



In Virginia. ^ . -f . I never saw this plant either liv- 

 ing or in a dried state. 



544. GALAX. Gen. pi. 382. 

 Erythrorhiza. Mich.Jl. amer. 2. p. 34. 



rotundifolia. 1. G. glaberrima ; foliis orbiculato-reniformibus dentatis, 

 spica longissima. 

 Galax aphylla. [Villd. sp. pi. 1. p. 1146. 

 Blandfordia cordata. Bot. rep. 343. 

 Solanandra cordifolia. Pent. malm. 6g, 

 Erythrorhiza rotundifolia. Mich.Jl. amer. 2. p. 36, 

 Icon. Mich. fi. amer. 2. t. 36. Fent. I. c. Bot. rep. 343, 

 On the side of shady hills, near rivulets, in the high 

 mountains of Virginia and Carolina. 1/. May, June. 

 v.v. Flowers white, in long and close spikes. In 

 the Virginia mountains this plant is known by the 

 name of Carpenter's- lea/, being used in healing all 

 kinds of wounds and cuts. 



545. LOBELIA. Gen. pi. 1363. 



Dortmama, 1. L, foliis radicalibus linearibus recurvis fistulosis bilocula- 

 ribus integerrimis, scapo simplici subnudo racemose, 

 floribus remotis pendulis.— //-'i/Ai. sp. pi. 1. p. 938, 

 Icon. Fl. dan. 39. Engl. lot. 140. 

 On Hudson's Bay. Michmix. 1/ . July, Aug. v. s. 

 Flowers light blue. 



Kahnii. 2. L, tenuis, erecta, simpliciuscula ; foliis radicalibus spa- 



thulatis, caulinis linearibus tenuissime denticulatis, 

 floribus racemosis alternis remotis pedicellatis.— Willd. 

 sp.pl. l.p.939. 



