3I0NADELPHIA POLYANDRIA 



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POL YANDRIA: 



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SID A. Get.. Pl. 1129. 



Calyx simplex, an- 



Styhis mul 



gill at us. 

 tipartitiis. 



Capsulce 



plures, 1 — 3 spermae. 



gled. 



Calyx simple 



9 



an 



Style 



many 



parted. Capsules nu- 

 merous, 1 — 3 seeded. 



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1. 



RACILIS. 



E. 



S. 



caiile gracilis 



glabro ; foliis lineari 

 bus serratis : pedun 



culis solitariis, 



axil 



Stem slender 



9 



gla 



brous ; leaves linear 



9 



serrate ; peduncles so- 



axillary, as 



the petioles ; 



(10) two 



litary, 

 long as 

 capsules 

 horned, glabrous. 



laribusjiongitudine pe- 

 tiolorum; capsulis (10) 



bicornibus, glabris. 



^oot fibrous, perennial. Stem fierbaceous, 2 — 3 feet high, glabrous, 

 sparingly branched and with the branches very slender. Leaves alternate^ 

 «btiise at base, glabrous, sometimes sprinkled with a few hairs; the low- 

 er ones narrow, lanceolate. Petioles 4 — 8 lines long, pubescent. 5^?- 

 i>"/f6' linear, as long as the petioles. Calyx 1 leaved, angled, persistent^ 

 a httle hairy, 5 cleft. Petals 5, expanding, striate, yellow, obovate with 

 <hesujiamit obHquely sinuate. Staminiferons cohmn short, pubescent, 

 ^any cleft ; segments 3 — 4 lines long. Anthers incumbent. Germsr 

 superior, depressed, glabrous. Style as long as the stamens, many cleft. 

 ^tigmas capitate. Capsules 1% united in a depressed spherical head, gla- 

 wous. Seed 1 in each capsule, reniform. 



Grows in sandy soils upon the Sea Islands. Common about Beaufort. 



I'lowers August — September* 



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ISPIDA. 



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S. hispido-pilosa ; I Hispid ; leaves Ian 



foliis lanceolatis, ser- i ceolate, serrate ; 



5 pedunculis soli- I duncles solitary, axil 



talis 



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