POLYANDRIA DI 



PENTAGYNIA 



Grows in dry pine barrens. Common in the upper parts of Chatham 

 county, Georgia. 



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Flower* IMarch — ApriL 



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2. Crux. Andrew. 



A. erectiim^ miilti- 

 caiile, diffasiim: foliis 

 subianceolalo — obloii- 

 isj oht'cisis; corymbo 

 termiiiali : floribiis 



Erect, much divi 



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ded, spreading; leaves 





somewhat lanceolate 



oblongs obtuse, co 

 rymb terminal; flow 



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siibsessihijus.2 gyeis; ers nearly sessile, di 



caule subtereti. 



gynous; stem terete. 



Sp. pi. 3. p. 1472. Walt. p. 191. Pursh. 2. p. 373. 



A. jMulticaulcj Mich. 



Stem frutescent, 2 — 3 feet high. Leaves small, sessile, and with the 

 calyx dotted. Flotocrs solitary, axillary, and terminal, on short peduncles. 

 The two large leaves of the calt/x cordate, . ovate, acute, nerved, the inte- 

 rior? leaflets very small, ovate-lanceolate, membranaceous, 2 small bracteaJ 

 leaves at the base of the calyx. Corolla yellow. Petals oblong, nearly 

 elliptical. Filaments about 20, as long as the corolla. Styles 2. Stig" 

 mas sirjgle. . 



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peduncles, and in the number of its styles, that it merits culture to detcr-» 



mine whether more than one species are not included under this name. 



Grows in all soils excepting those which are inundated, 

 Flowers through the whole summer. 



3. HypericoideS* 



A. erectura, parce- I Erect 

 ramosum, ramis and- branched 



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sparingly 



with 



the 



pitibus: foliis oblongis | branches ^compressed, 



leaves oblong with 2 



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biglandulosis 

 floribus terminalibus 

 solitariis^ breviter pe 

 dicellatis, 3-gynis. 





glands 



at base; flo^^ 



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ers terminal, solitary, 

 on short peduncles, 



trigynous 



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Sp. pi. 3. p. 2473. Walt. 191^ Purshj 2. p. 374. 



'A. Stans, Mich. 2. p. 77- 



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