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300 



STNGENESIA JEQUALIS. 



4 



glands; floribus corym 



cous underneath 



? 



flow 



? 



invohicri squa | ers in corymbs; scales 



of the involucrum very 



bosis 



mis acutissimis. 



E. 



acute. 



stem two to three feet high, pubescent, the lower branches brachiate, the 



upper alternate. 



Leaves scarcely more than an inch long, opposite, ovatC; 

 acute at each end, with numerous serratures. 

 flowered. 



JnwoZMcrM/rt ten-leaved, five- 

 Leaves lanceolate, somewhat mucronate, hairy, sprinkled with 

 glandular dots. Corolla white, longer than the involucrum. Stamens very 

 short. Style longer than the corolla, two-cleft. Seed angled. Pajipiis 

 scabrous. 



Grows in dry soils. 



August 



12. ROTUIVDIFOLIUM. 



E. foliis sessilibus, 

 distinctis, subrotundo- 

 deltoidibus, obtuse ser- 

 ratis, venosis. 



sub 



glaucis; invohicri squa 



mis acutis. 





Leaves sessile, dis 

 tinct, deltoid J nearly 

 round, obtusely serrate 

 veined, somewhat glau- 

 cous; scales of the in- 

 volucrum acute. 



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ft 



Sp. pi. 3. p. 1754. Mich. % p. 93- Pursh,2, p. 514. Nutt. 2. p. 135, 

 E. Marrubium? Walt. p. 199. 



Stem two to three feet high, very pubescent. Leaves opposite, decussate, 

 triplinerved, dotted, slightly scabrous, with a somewhat glaucous or per- 

 haps more correctly hoary hue. Flowers in a fastigiate corymb. Involu- 

 crum ten-leaved, five-flowered; leaves lanceolate, acute, very pubescent. 

 Corolla white. Stamens very short. Stt/le much longer than the corolla. 

 Seeda angled. Pappus scabrous, longer than the corolla. 



Decoctions of this as well as of the preceding species are used with much 

 success as a tonic febrifuge. 



I have always suspected this plant to be the E. Marrubium of Walter, ft 

 is commonly known through our low country as the wild horehound, and 

 its leaves bear more affinity to the garden horehound, (marrubium vulgnre) 

 than those of any other of our species. 



Grows in dry pine barrens. 



Flowers from July to September. 



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