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MONOECIA TjflANDRIA. 



piibescentiljus; 



spica 



glomerata, nuda, glo 

 merulis alternis, 



dis- 



tantibus; gliimis seto- 

 sis; nucibus globosis, 

 mucronatis, transvei- 



sim rusoso-verrucosis. 



leaves, pubescent; spike 

 clustered/ naked, the 

 clusters alternate, dis- 

 tant; 

 seed 

 nate. 



lumes bristly; 



globose 



m u cr 0- 



transversely 



wrinkled. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 317. Mich. 2. p. IG8. Pursh, 1. p. 45. 



This species I have not seen, but the descriptibn of JVlichaux evidently 



applies here. 



Grows in damp meadows from Carolina to Florida. 

 Flowers 



COMPTONIA. 



EN. Pl. 1764. 



Mas cull 



■J. 



lmentu?n 



Calyx 



Sterile Jlorets 



X- 



C*' 



tw* 



rolla di petal a. 

 nienta bifurca. 



piama. Co- meiiL Calyx a scale. 



Fila 



Foeminei — A men t 



urn. 



Calyx 



Corolla 2-petalled. 

 Filaments forked. 

 Fertile Jlorets 



A- 



squama, j ment. Calyx a scale. 



Corolla hexapetala. Corolla 6-petalled. 

 Styli 2, Nux ovata. | Styles 2. Nut ovate 



1. ASPLENIFOLIA. 



Nutt. 2. p 



. ZO6. 



Sp. pi. 4. p.j320. Mich. 2. p. 203. Pursh, 2. p. m't 



A small shrub two to fonr feet high. Leavts long, linear-lanceolate, al- 

 ternate, sessile, irregalurly phinatifid after the manner of a fern, lobes ob- 

 tuse. Flowers in oval, sessile, axillary spikes (aments.) Of the stwile 

 florets, calyx reniform, acuminate, one-flowered; corolla and filaments shor- 

 ter tlian the calyx; filaments three, divided; anthers six. Of the fertile 



florets, corolla six-leaved, much longer than the calyx, 

 valves. 



'^ut oval, without 



The whole plant when bruised is aromatic. 



^ In specimens which I have from Pennsylvania the stem and leaves are 

 slightly pubescent, and the lobes of the leaves somewhat remote. In spef«- 

 mens trom the mountains of Carolina, the leaves on the upper surface ar»- 



..>vi>^ Hwi.. iin, iij»ju*Mniii.-> til v^aiuunu, xne leaves on luc- ujjpv^ ^ . 



mVe or less hairy, on the under surface tomentose, tlic lobes nearly orbicu- 

 lar. ovprlaviiKT one annthpr; flip Kmn^^lioc- <^,v,«r,*r,co Thp sraleS SO deepl) 



V. 



kr, overlaying one another; the branches tomentose. The scales ^ 

 fringed as to make the young aments nimost reserpble a ball of hair. 



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