108 LOGANIACE.E. Spigelia. 



S. Marilandica, L. Indian Pink, &c. Stem a foot or two liigli : leaves from ovate- 

 lanceolate to ovate and acuminate, 2 to 4 inches long, closely sessile by a romided base, 

 one or two pairs of veins basal : inflorescence l-2-si)icate, short-pedunculate : corolla scarlet 

 outside, yellow within, an inch and a half long ; the tube somewhat clavate, four times 

 the length of ovate-lanceolate lobes. — Mant. 3o8 ; Bot. Mag. t. 80; Lodd. Cab. t. 930 ; 

 Bigel. Med. ii. t. 14. (Catesb. Car. ii. t. 78.) Lonicera Marilandica, L. Spec. — Woodlands, 

 New Jersey to Wisconsin and Texas. 



§ 2. Flowers smaller, naked spicate as in the jireceding : corolla white or pur- 

 plish, funuelform ; the limb more or less plicate in the bud with the edges of the 

 lobes turned outward : anthers and style included. 



S. gentianoid.es, Chapm. Stem a span to a foot high from a perennial root, rough- 

 ish : leaves ovate and the lower roundish, an inch or more long : spike few-flowered : corolla 

 an inch long; the ovate-lanceolate lobes rather erect. — A.DC. Prodr. ix. 5; Chapm. Fl. 

 182.. — Light soil, W. Florida, Chapman. 



§ 3. Flowers small, terminal and in the forks of leafy branches, mostly shovt- 

 peduncled : corolla nearly salverform, white or nearly so ; the limb plicate in the 

 bud and the edges turned outward : anthers and style included ; the latter articu- 

 lated in the middle, its tubular upper portion beset with collecting hairs fully half 

 way down : root annual ? — CcelosiyUs, Torr. & Gray. 



S. loganioides, A.DC. A span or more high, ascending: leaves oval, sessile (half to 

 three-fourths incii long) : sepals narrowly linear and with tiie scarious margins denticulate : 

 corolla 4 or 5 lines long, somewhat funuelform : capsule with minutely granulate surface 

 (not lineolate) : seeds smoothish. — Prodr. ix. 4. Calosti/Us loganioides, Torr. & Gray in 

 Endl. Iconogr. t. 101 (beard on the style represented too short), & Fl. N. Am. ii. 44. — 

 E. Florida, near Fort King, &e., Dr. Burrows, Rugel, Buckley. 



S. Lindlieimeri. A span high, diffusely much branched from the base, pubcrulcnt- 

 scabrous : leaves from ovate-oblong to lanceolate (an inch or less long), acutish at base, 

 the lower somewhat petioled : sepals linear and the scarious margins conspicuously den- 

 ticulate : corolla salverform, 4 lines long : capsule minutely lineolate : seeds at maturity 

 tuberculate-rugose as well as minutely pitted. — Prairies of W. Texas, Lindheimer, Wright. 



S. Texana, A.DC. 1. c. About a foot high, nearly smooth and glabrous : leaves ovate- to 

 lanceolate-oblong, thinner and larger (one or two inches long), mostly acute at both ends, 

 the lower somewhat petioled : sepals setaceous-subulate, only one-nerved ; the margins 

 very obscurely serrulate-scabrous : corolla salverform, half inch long : capsule smooth, 

 not lineolate : seeds minutely rugulose and punctate. — Ccdostylis Texana, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 

 — E. Texas, Druitimond, Lindheimer, Wright, &c. 



3. MITREOLA, L. (Diminutive of mifra, a turban or mitre, from the 

 shape of the capsule.) — Glabrous low herbs (E. American, Asiatic and Austra- 

 lian), ours annuals ; with entire leaves, small entire stipules between them, and 

 very small white flowers unilaterally spicate on the naked branches of the ter- 

 minal cyme : fl. summer. — Cynoctonum, Gmelin. 



M. petiolata, Torr. & Gray. A foot or two high : leaves membranaceous, from ob- 

 long-lanceolate to ovate (1 to -3 inches long), acute, narrowed at base into more or less of 

 a petiole. — Fl. N. Am. ii. 45 ; A.DC. Prodr. ix. 8; Progel in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. t. 82, fig. 1. 

 Ophiorhiza Mitreola, L. Spec. i. 150 ; Swartz, Obs. t. 3. 0. Innceolata, Ell. Sk. i. 238. Anony- 

 mos petiolata, Walt. Car. 108. Cynoctonum petiolatum, Gmel. Syst. 4. Mitreola ophiorhizoides, 

 A. Rich. Me'm. Soc. Nat. Hist. Par. i. 63, t. 3, includes both our species. — Wet grounds, 

 E. Virginia to Texas. (Mex., W. Ind., &c.) 



M. sessilifolia, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. Stems more simple and virgate : leaves thicker 

 and firmer in texture (half inch or more long, and veins more prominent), roughish-mar- 

 gined, from round-oval to oblong, sessile : flowers and fruit smaller and more crowded. — 

 Anonymos sessilifolia, Walt. 1. c. Cynoctonum sessilijolium, Gmelin, 1. c. Ophiorhiza Mitreola, 



