i 



575 MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 955. Pursh, l.p. 114. Nutt. 2. p. 208. ^ . 



Stem twelve to fifteen inches high, striate, very pubescent. Uaves al- 

 ternate, linear lanceolate, with a long nearly acute summit, dotted, pubescent 

 particularly along the veins and margin, tapering at base to a petiole about 

 half an inch long. Flowers in compact axillary clusters. Female and Her- 

 maph. intermingled. Two hermaph. and one female floret generally en- 

 closed in a six-leaved involucrum. Leaves of the involucrura oblong, his- 

 pid. Calyx oblong, persistent, the segments uniting and forming a cover 



for the seed. 



Grows in the upper districts of Carolina and Georgia. Sent me from 

 Augusta by Dr. Leavenworth. 



Flowers May — July. 



2. Floridana. Nuttall. 



. P. foliis rotundato- I Leaves ovate, near- 

 ovatis, obtiisis, opaco- ly round, obtuse, opake, 

 punctatis; floribus do- dotted; flowers cluster 



meratis^ involucrum 

 aequaiitibus; caule as- 

 surgenle^ 



ed as long as the invo- 

 lucrum; stem assurgent 



Nutt* 2. p. 208. 



Stem twelve to eigfiteen mches high, decumbent, with the b^a^ches erec^^^ 

 pubescent near the summit, sometimes nearly glabrous at base- 

 ovate, dotted, pubescent, sometimes nearly round, sometynes abrupt y ^^ 

 minate, but stall obtuse, on petioles as long as the leaves. Flowers in ^ ^^ 

 lary clusters, not generally so crowded as in the former species, heave 

 the involucrum nearly linear, not longer than the flowers. ^^^ 



Grows in sandy soils when damp. Common along the sea coast ol 

 lina and Georgia. First sent me from Florida by Dr. Baldwin under 

 name of P. !uci{ia. - 



Flowers May^ — October. 



ATRIPLEX. Gen. Pl. 1577. 



Hermo.]phrodiii Ca- 1 Hermjlorets. <^«^3A* 

 .yx 5-pliyIIus. Corol- 5-leaved. Corolla ^ 

 laO, Stamina 5, S/jj-l Stamens 5, '^^^ ^ ] 



lus 2-partitus. *S'^/>ien parted. Seed h 



9 



dep 



pressed 



