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MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 



647 



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Stem 2—3 feet high, trichotomously divided, the branches cinereous, 

 when young brownish, rather rough, dotted and covered, together with the 

 leaves and calyx, with a stellular tomentura. Leaves about 2 inches Ions 

 very obtuse or cordate at base, entire, slightly undulate, light grey or hoary 



""''" "^ Flowers at first terminalj by the growth of the plant the seed 



.before a ripens, is found in the divisions of the stem. Spike of sterile florets 



Calyx 1 -leaved, the 



„ , , . , -~, as long as the calyx; 5 



yellow curved glands in the bottom of the calyx surround the base of the 

 filaments. Female florets generally in pairs, separate from the sterile spikes. 

 Ca/yx inferior, persistent. Corolla 0. ~ ' 



underneath, 

 .before it ripL___^ 



many flowered (12 — 20) sometimes 2 or 3 together, 

 border 6-cleft. Corolla 0. Filaments about 12 



Styles 3, very short, 3 or 4-cleft. 



Capsule 3-celled, tomentose. Seed, 1 in each cell. 

 Grows in the drifting sands along the margin of the Ocean. 

 Flowers June — October. 



2. Argyranthemum. Michaux. 



C. caule fruticoloso 



foliis integerrimis, 



? 



Stem' 



somewhat 



ob- shrubby; leaves entire 



ra 



tusis, obovatis; racemis obtuse, obovate^ 

 terminalibus, brevibus J cemes terminal^ short, 

 congestim multifloris, many flowered,- calyx 

 calycibus pedieellatis, on pedicels, silvery. 



argenteis 



Mich. 



Mich. 2. p. 215. Sp. pi. 4. p. 535. Pursh, 2. p. 603. Nutt. 2. p. 225. 



With regard to this species I can add nothing to the description of Mi- 

 chaux. I once saw specimens of it collected by Mr. Lyon on the sand-hills 



around Fort Harrington on the Altamaha, but I had no opportunitv of exam- 

 mgth^m. 



Grows in very dry soils in Carolina and Georgia, Mich. 

 Flowers June- 



September. 



3. Glandulosum. 



Lin. 



C. 



foliis 



oblongis, 



serratis, subtus hirtis. 



ba 



SI 



subinlegerrimis, 



Leaves oblong. 



ser 



biglandulosis; caule tri 

 chotomo,herbaceo; spi- 



J^js in dichotoraia cau- 

 us. 



rate, hairy underneath, 

 nearly entire at base, 

 bearing 2 glands; stpm 

 herbaceous trichoto- 

 mous; spikes in the di- 

 vision of the stem. 



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