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pubescence; follicles 5, not inflated, tomentose, several-seeded. — Low grounds 
in the upper districts of Georgia, and northward. June and July. — Stem 29 - 39 
high. Flowers small, pale purple. 
3. S. salicifolia, L. Smooth; panicle dense-flowered; leaves varying 
from lanceolate to oblong-obovate, sharply and doubly serrate; follicles not in- 
flated, smooth, several-seeded. — With the preceding. J une and July. — Stem 
29-59 high. Flowers white. 
* * Perennial herbs: leaves lobed or compound. 
4. S. lobata, Murr. Flowers perfect, in long-peduncled paniculate cymes ; 
leaves coarse, pinnately lobed, the terminal lobe very large, reniform, 7 — 9-parted, 
with the divisions incisely toothed and serrate; stipules reniform, persistent ; 
follicles 6-8, 1—2-seeded. — Swamps along the mountains of Georgia and 
North Carolina, northward. June and July. — Stem smooth, 59-8? high. Up- 
per leaves 3-lobed and sessile; the lowest ones on long petioles. Flowers rose- 
color. Petals and sepals often in fours. 
5. S. Aruncus, L. Flowers diccious, in elongated filiform panicled 
racemes; leaves thrice-pinnate; leaflets thin, lanceolate-oblong, sharply and 
doubly serrate; stipules minute or wanting; follicles 3-5, several-seeded, re- 
flexed. — Woods on the mountains of Georgia, and northward. June. — Stem 
tall and slender. Flowers minute, white. - 
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Calyx bractless, spreading, 5-parted, with the lobes leaf-like, incisely serrate 
and persistent. Corolla none. Stamens indefinite, inserted in several rows on 
the thin disk which lines the bottom of the calyx; filaments filiform. Ovaries 
2-4, sessile: style nearly terminal, filiform. Ovule single, pendulous, anatro- 
pous. Achenia drupaceous. Cotyledons oval, flat. Embryo included in thin 
fleshy albumen. Radicle superior, inflexed-accumbent. — A shrub, with alter- 
nate leaves, free bristle-awl-shaped stipules, and single or clustered terminal 
flowers on slender peduncles. 
1. N. Alabamensis, Gray. — Shady cliffs near Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 
Rev. R. D. Nevius. — Shrub 2°-5° high, with spreading branches. Leaves 
short-petioled, membranaceous, ovate or oblong, doubly serrate, Y -733' long. 
Flowers very numerous and showy. 
5. GILLENIA, Mench. Ixprax — 
Calyx tubular-campanulate, 5-toothed. Petals 5, linear-lanceolate, unequal, 
inserted on the throat of the calyx, convolute in the bud. Stamens 10-20. Fol- _ 
licles 5, included in the calyx, 2—4-seeded. — Perennial herbs. Leaves thin 
trifoliolate ; the leaflets sharply and doubly niii Flowers white or rose- 
color, in joos few-flowered corymbs. s 
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