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DIDYNAMIA ANGlOSPERMlA 



2-loculans apice dehis- 



ce ns 



vate 



ventr 



2 



valved, 2-celled5 open 



^ at the summit 



ENUIFOLIA. 



Pm'sh. 



S. 



labriiiscula, 



ramosissima: 



? 



foUis 



9 



composite pinnatifidis 

 laciniis oppositis alter- 

 nisqiie, filiformibus ; 

 corolla sub rotata; cap- 

 sulis glabris* 



Glabrous, profusely 

 branched; leaves com- 

 poundly pinnatifid 

 with the segments op- 



and alternate, 

 : corolla some- 



j> 



posite 

 filif. 



orm 



what rotate 5 capsules 

 glabrous. 



■pursh 2. p. 737- Nuttall 2. p. 50. 

 Gerardia Afzelia. Mich. 2. p. 20. 

 Afzelia Cassioides. Gmel. Sys, Nat. 

 Anonymos Cassioides. Walt. p. 171* 



Root annual ? Stem 3 — 4 feet liigli^ with numerous brichiate branch- 



^^f 



eSy terete^ rough. 



ly pinnatifid 



mpound 



mmi 

 sitCj on peduncles about an inch long. 



Calyx somewhat campanulate, 

 the segments subulate, about twice as long as the tube. Corolla about 

 half an inch long, of an obscure yellow, sprinkled in the throat with 

 purple, pubescent, the border 5-cleft. Filaments villous at base, rather 

 shorter than the corolla. Anthers incumbent, yellow, openhig at the sum- 

 mit, the cells separate, and mucronate at base. Style declining, longer 

 than the stamens. Stigma obtuse. Caj^sule compressed at the sunnult. 

 Seechi numerous, very small. 



The An (hers in this species, of which alone I can speak with certaint)> 

 bear a striking afFmity to those of the Cassia- Hence and not from the C9- 

 ^ToUa the specific name of Walter. 



Grows very common in the low country in wet pine barrens.. 



-Flowers August — September. 



2. 



ECTINATA. 



Pursh. 



S. viscido 



pttbes 



cens 



raraossissima 



Viscidly pubescent, 



profusely branched; 



foliis pectinato pinna- I leaves pectinately pin- 



tifidis ; laciniis indivi- 1 natiiid, with the seg- 



.sjs, linearibus, acutis 5 [ meats undivided, Hn- 



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