POLYASDRIA DI — PENTAGYNU. 



irxactly resembling the leaves of the phmt. Stamens rather longer than 

 the corolla^ both nmch longer than the calyx. Petals yellow, oblong, 

 oval. Styles 3^ firmly united. Capsules 3 celled, 3 valved* 



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Grows in wet pine barrens. 

 Flowers June — August. 



11. RoSMARINIFOLIUItf ,? 



H. ramiilis tereti- 

 bus ; foliis lineari-lan- 

 ceolatis, acutis, basi 



attenuatis, slibfascicu- 



latis 



at a 



5 



panicula elong 



Branches 



terete 5 



leaves linear-Ian ceo 



late, acute 

 at base, • 



5 tapering 

 somewhat 



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pedunculis in a- peduncles 



clustered; panicle long; 



near 



pice ramorura axillar- 



ibus, triflorisj stylis 

 coadunatis. 



the 

 summit of the branch- 



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es^ axillary, 3-flo\ver- 

 ed 



? 



styles united. 



Sf). pi. 3.p. 1450 r" 



H, fasckulatum, Sp- pi. 3. p. 1452. Pursh. 2. p. 37(>. 



S'/^mshrubbyj2 — 5 feet high, with its numerous branches teretc^smootB, 

 Jmd generally coloured. Leaves shining^ and as in most of the species, with 

 the margins revolute, and the surface sprinkled with pellucid dots. Panicle 

 very ornamental from the number of its flowers on its compoundly tri- 

 chotomous branches. Calyx with its segments like tiie leaves, linear-lan- 

 ceolate. Corolla yellow. Petals obovate, larger than the calyx, Fila- 

 tueyits numerous, much shorter than the corolla. Styles 3, at first united 



expanding after the flower decays. Cajpsule 3 celled, with the angles 

 rounded. 



I have found some difficulty in determining this plant. It is evidently 

 the H. fasciculatum of Willdenow, but Willdenow has certainly mistaken 

 the H. fasciculatum of Michaux, which he had probably already descri- 

 "bed as the H. galioides. This plant was considered by Dn Muhlenberg 

 as the H. rosmarinifoHum of LaMarck^ 

 propriate, I have retained it. 



It has always appeared to me remarkable that this, which in the \o^ 

 country of Carolina and Georgia, is the most common of our frutescent 

 species, should have been overlooked by both Walter and Michaux. 



Grows in damp soils. . 



flowers June — Auirost. 



and as the name is peculiarly ap* 



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