1 



JROLYANDRIA UI — PEiNTAGY^"IA, 



X 



A shrub about 3 feet high. Leaves about 3 inches long, tapering y^t 

 connate at base, dotted, paler on the under surface. Flowers very nume- 

 rous in fastigiate corymbs, with solitary flowers nearly sessile hi the lower 

 divisions of the corymb. Corolla and Statneyts generdWy longer tha?j the 



calyx. 



firmly 



Found in the Pine barrens of Scrjven county^ Georgia^ 

 flowers May — July* 



16. NuDiFLORu.M, Mich. 



H. ramis alatls: fo 



liis ob 



tiisis, sessilibus 



Brandies 



a^rf 



nudatis, compositis ; 

 corolla calyce longi- 



ovatisjob- | leaves oblong-ovate 



sile ; pani- 

 lal, naked, 



; corolla 



pa 



obUise 



niculis terminalibus, j cles termi 



compound 



ylis coadunat 



tyles united 



the caly 



Sp. PI. 3. p. 1456.. Mich. 2. p. 78. 

 H. virginicum .? Walt. 189. 



37 



Heally frutescent, but many of its branches decay every year, and new 



kes are nrndnrpH. whirl* mvo U f.-r.r.„„v,M,. i^.^v "^ '' ' 



BrancUs angled und winged. Leases sometimes lanceolate, dotted, of a 

 pale and somewhat glaucous complexion. Yanide compoundly dichotc 

 mous, with a flower in each division of the stem on short peduncles. Leaves 

 of the calyx lanceolate. Coroha obovate, nearly twice as long as the calyx, 

 %fc« 3, sometimes A, umted, but separated at their summits. Qnvmlf> 

 S celled, coloured. s/-^o«.p 



Grows around the margins of ponds, and in shaUow swampy. 

 * lowers August— September. ^ 



t7. Glaucum .? 



H. caule tereti ; fo- 

 liis cordato— ovatis 



semiamplexicaulibiis, 

 laucescentibus ; pa- 



uicula divaricato-di- 

 chotoma, foliosa; co- 

 rolla calycem aequan- 

 \^ 5 stylis coadiinatis. 



Stem terete \ leaves 



cordate-ovate 



> 



hali' 



embracing the stem 



somewhat 



9 



glaucous ; 



panicle divaricate, di- 

 chotomous, leafy; co- 

 rolla as long as tlie ca- 



lyx 



J 



JMich. 2. p. 78. Pursh. 2. p. 576. 



Styles united. 



