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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 2° -3° 

 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. June and July. — Stem 

 2° -5° high. Flowers white. 



* * Perennial herbs : leaves lohed or compound. 



4. S. lobata, Murr. Flowers perfect, in long-peduncled paniculate cymes ; 

 leaves coarse, pinnately lobed, the terminal lobe very large, i-eniform, 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, 5° - 8° high. Up- 

 per leaves 3-lobed and sessile ; the lowest ones on long petioles. Flov.ers rose- 

 color. Petals and se{)als often in fours. 



5. S. Aruneus, L. Flowers dioecious, 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. 



4. NEVIUSIA, Gray. 



Calyx bractless, spreading, 5-parted, with the lobes leaf-like, inciselj'' 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. 

 Reo. R. D. Nevius. — Shrub 2° - 5° high, with spreading branches. Leaves 

 short-petioled, membranaceous, ovate or oblong, doubly serrate, l'-2^' long. 

 Flowers very numerous and shov/y. 



5. GILLENIA, Moench. Indian Physic. 



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 serrate. Flowers white or rose- 

 color, in loose few-flowered corymbs. 



1. G. trifoliata, Moench. Stipules small, subulate, entire; leaflets ob- 

 long, acuminate, rather coarsely serrate ; lower peduncles elongated, flowers 

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