DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMlA 



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Root perennial. Stem creeping^ tlirowmg out roots and offsets^ finally 

 assurgont, four angled and with the whole plant hairy. Leaves opposite^ 

 ovate^ lanceolate^ somewhat 3-lobed, with the lobes notched and toothed, 

 dotted on the upper surfoce^ tapering at base to a slightly winged petiole 

 about an inch long. Flowers in terminal spikes so crowded that when 

 flowering they resemble a corymb, bractoas linear at the base of each 

 flower;, about half as long as the calyx. Calyx angled whh the border 5 

 tldty segments setaceous, unequal. Corolla somewhat hypocrateriform, 

 purple, tube nearly twice as long as the calyx, enlarged at tlie sum- 

 mit and cloathed with hair, border 5 cleft, expanding. Filaments very 

 short in the tube of the corolla, the longer pair very villous. The Style 



as long as the tube. Stigma obliquely capitate. Seeds four, oblong, dot- 

 ted. 



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Grows In tho dry pine barrens of tlie middle country of Carolina and 

 Georgia. 



Flowers April — September. 



2. Spuria; 



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b e 11 1 e, 



clivaricato ; foliis mul 

 tifido laciiiiatis, spicis 

 filiform ib us ; bracteis 



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Stem 



decumbent 



branchins^ divaricate 



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leaves 1 acini at e, much 

 divided; spikes fili- 



form 



bracteas longei* 



calyce superantibus. [ than the calyx. 



% ph 1. p. 119. Mich. 2. p- 14i Pursh 2. p. 4l6. 



Nearly glabrous. Stem angled. 



Leaves sessile, deeply lacinlafe, 

 somewhatplnnatifitl, tapering at base, segments serrate, acute. Spikes 

 somewhat paniculate. Flowers at first crowded, afterwards by the elong* 

 ation of the stem distinct and scattered. Corolla small, purple. 

 Grows in Carolina. MuhU 



Flow 



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3. Has Tata. 



V. 



erecta, elatior 



Erect 



tall 



foliis lanceolatis, acu- 



inmatiS;, insciso scrra- i shaiply serrate 



t*s, nonnullis insciso- ' ' "^ 



hastatis; spicis lineai'- 



leaves 



lanceolate, acuminate^ 



some, 

 and 



times 



notched 



hastate ; spikes line** 



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