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doubly serrate; stipules miuute or wanting; follicles 3-5, several-seeded, 

 reflexed. — Woods on the mountains of Georgia and North Carolina. June. 

 — Stem tall and slender. Flowers minute, white. 



5. NEVIUSIA, Gray. 



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, pendu- 

 lous, anatropous. Achenia drupaceous. Cotyledons oval, flat. Embryo in- 

 cluded in thin fleshy albumen. Radicle superior, inflexed-accunibent. — A 

 shrub, with alternate 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° higii, with spreading branches. Leaves 

 short-petioled, membranaceous, ovate or oblong, doubly serrate, V -2V long. 

 Flowers very numerous and showy. 



6. GILLENIA, Mcench. 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. 

 Follicles 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, Mcench. Stipules small, subulate, entire; leaflets ob- 

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

 white. — Rich woods in the upper districts. June. — Steili 2° -3° high. 



2. G. stipulacea, Nutt. Stipiiles leafy, ovate, serrate ; leaflets lanceo- 

 late, coarsely serrate, or the lowest incisely lobed ; flowers rose-color. — With 

 the preceding. June. — Stem 2° - 3° high. 



7. AGRIMONIA, Tourn. Agrimony. 



Calyx 5-cleft, the tube top-shaped, contracted at the throat, and armed with 

 hooked bristles. Petals .5. Stamens 5-15, inserted on the throat of the 

 calyx. Achenia 2, included in the grooved and indurated calyx-tube. — Per- 

 ennial herbs, with uneciually pinnate leaves, leafy toothed stipules, and small 

 yellow flowers in long spiked racemes. Fruit nodding. 



1. A. Eupatoria, L. Stem hirsute, 2° -3° high; leaflets 3-5, 2' -3' 

 long, oblong or obovate, coarsely and broadly mucronate-serrate, pubescent 

 beneath ; racemes mostly 3, 1° or more long, rarely numerous and smaller. — 

 Dry open woods. August. 



Var. mollis, Torr. & Gray. Softly pubescent ; leaflets 7-9, lanceolate, 

 paler beneath, Ij' long. — Rocky woods in the upper di.stricts. August. 



2. A. parviflora, Ait. Stem 3° -5° high, densely hirsute, branching 

 above; leaflets 9-15, lanceolate, sharply serrate, li'-2' long, the smaller 

 ones numerous ; fruiting calyx larger than the preceding. — Swamps, chiefly 

 in the upper districts. August. 



