650 



MOiNOEClA M«NADELPHIA. 



ri I 



which this plant delights to grow, to a great distance. I have followed them 

 by digging 3, 4 or 5 feet, but never to their termination. 



The prickles of this plant, like those of the Nettle, produce on dehcgte 

 skins great irritation for a few minutes. Children are very much accustom- 

 ed to annoy each other with thfem. But of the serious injury which, accord- 

 ing to Pursh, the feet of our Negroes sustain from them, I can only say I 

 have never heard. 



Grows in light sandy soils. 

 Flowers through the whole simimer. 



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STILLINGIA. 



G 



Ei\. 



P 



L. 



1470. 



\ 



MasculL Cahjx he- | Sterile Jlorets 

 misphaericus, 



multiflo 



[yx hemisphei*ipal, ma- 



cros a. 



Corolla tubiilosa, | ny flowered. 



tubular, erose. 



Corolla 



Ca- 

 infe- 



Foemineu Calyx 1 Ferlik florets 



florus, inferus. Corolla lyx 1-flowercd, 



supera. Stylus 3-fidus. rior. Corolla superior 



Capsula 3-IocuIaris. Style 3- cleft. 



Semen 1. 



I 



3-celled. 

 each cell. 



Seed 



C apsule 



y 



111 



1. SVLVATICA. 



Lin. 



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S.» herb ace a 



5 



foliis 



sessilibus, oblongo-lan- 

 ceolatis, basi attenua- 

 tis, serrulatis; flosculis 

 raasculis squamam flo- 

 ralem vix superantibus. 



Herbaceous; leaves 

 sessile; oblong-Ianceo- 

 late, tapering at base, 

 serrulate: sterile florets 



scarcely 



longer 



than 



the bracteal scale. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 588. Walt. p. 239. Mich. 2. p. 213. Pursh, 2. p- ^8. 



3 feet high, some- 



labrous and 



Nutt. 2. p. 226. 



Root large, woody, perennial- Stc7n herbaceous, 2 

 what angled hy the base of the leaves, with the whole plant g 

 lactescent. Leaves alternate, irregularly serrulate, somewhat ^^^'!^^^*^ Ij 

 seining on the upper surface, paler underneath. Stifles? several s 

 subulate glands in the axils of the leaves and flowers. Plotters in a c 

 nal spike, the upper crowded as in an anient, sterile, with interposuig P 

 liiie glands. Fertile florets few at the base. Sterile florets. CwjA^ » ^^^^j^ 

 ovate, obtuse, miicronate, many flowered (7.) Corolla 1-petalled, w 



