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steni-clasping, linear lanceolate, remotely serrate, a few dis- 

 tinct, woolly hairs over the under side of the nerve chiefly, and 

 marked with numerous olands ; from one to two inches long-. 

 J^loxcers solitary, sessile, terminal, or in the divisions of the 

 branchlets. Calyx, common, four-leaved, leaflets cordate, 

 obtuse, the interior pair smaller, all are entire, smooth, fleshy 

 and permanent. The partial cali/x one-leaved, spathiform, 

 enveloping the germ, open on the inside, where the margins 

 overlap each other ; mouth contracted, ciliate and divided. 

 Carol compound, uniform, convex. Florets hermaphrodite, 

 many in the di»k; the female onesmargin the circumference; 

 the hermaphrodite ones funnel-shaped, five-cleft; the females 

 sub-ligulate, the inner fissure being' much deeper; border 

 very short, from three to four-toothed. Stamens iti the her- 

 maphrodite florets five, the anthers coalesced. Pistil \n 2l\\ 

 the germs oblong, and the stigma two-cleft. Pericarpium 

 none, the calyx unchanged envelopes the oblong, smooth, 

 black seed, which is destitute of crown or pappus. Recep- 

 tacle flat, naked. 



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