MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 



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Polygonifolia of Clayton, (consequently of Linn.-eus) who speaks of it 

 maritime plant. I quote Pursji with great hesitation. 

 Flowers through the whole summer. 



as a 



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9. IPECACUANHyE. 



Lin. 



E. pracumb 



taq 



P 



glabra 



Procumbent and e 



ect 



foliis oppositis, obova- t leaves 



tis 

 duncul 



atisq 



vate 



small, glab 

 opposite, 



ob 





arib 



d lanceolate 



I 



peduncles axillar} 

 flowered, long. 



5 



unifloris, elongatis. 



Sp. pi. 2. p. 900. Mich. 2. p. 212. Pursh, 2. p. 606. Nutt. 2. p. 22~. 



Plant perennial, with very long creeping roots. Stem generally short, 

 sometimes buried in the sand and appearing fasciculate and leafless, some- 

 times erect 12—15 inches high. Leaves opposite, sessile, elliptic or obo- 

 ^te,^ (sometimes linear, Mich.) entire, glabrous. Flowers solitary in the 

 divisions of the stera.^ Peduncle about as long as the leaves. 



Grows in dry sandy soils. 



Flowers from April to July, perhaps through the whole summer. 



\ 



lO. Gracilis. 



E. 



I 



E. caule erecto, di- 1 Stem erect, dichoto 



; 



choto 



I 



oppositis, remotis, ses- | opposite, remote 



mo, glabro; foliis [ mous, glabrous; leaves 



silibus, linear-Ianceola 

 tis; pedunculis solita 

 riis in dichotomia cau 



sile 



9 



ses- 



} 



lineari-lanceolate 



J 



lis 



} 



foliis longioribus. 



peduncles solitary in 

 the divisions 



of 



the 



stem, longer than the 

 leaves. 



J- 



;ant 



E. Polygonifolia? Mich. 2. p. 211. 



, Plant perennial. Stem about 12 inches high, like the whole f „ 



rous, very regularly dichotomous, the divisions remote for the size of the 

 pnt. Leaves opposite at the divisions of the stem, linear or linear-lanceo- 

 wte, entire, sessile. Peduncle solitary, longer than the leaf, petaloid seg- 



'^Pnls scarcely coloured. 



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