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MONOECIA MONADELPHIA- 



I have always been accustomed to consider this plant as the E. Polygonl- 

 folia of Michaux. Yet it resembles very much^ and may be the linear-leaved 

 variety of E. Ipecacuanlise. The E. Polygonifolia of Pursh I do not know. 



Grows in dry sandy soils near Ogeechee Ferry, 



Flowers May — July. 



1 



11. PuBENTissiMA. Miclmux. 



E. perennis, erecta, 

 pubentissima; caulibus 



Perennial, erect, ve 



sub-dichotomis 



? 



foliis 



oppositis 



9 



sessilibus. 



sub -cordato -ovalibus, 



obtusis; pedimculis so- 

 litariis; involucri laci- 

 niis interioribus albis. 



ry 



pubescent; 



stem 



somewhat dichotomous; 



leaves opposite, sessile 



, slightly cordate 



oval 



9 



obtuse; peduncles soli 

 tary; interior segments 



of 



the 



involucrom 



white. 



Mich. 2. p. 212. Pursh, 2. p. 606. Nutt. 2. p. 227- / 



Stem 12 to 18 inches high, divided towards the summit, hirsute. Leav^ 

 opposite, sessile, nearly an inch long, elliptic, entire, not so hairy on the 

 stem, except along the midrib. Flowers solitary in the divisions of the stem. 

 Peduncle nearly as long as the leaf. Petaloid Segments white. 



Grows in the pine-barrens in the middle districts of Carolina and treor- 



gia 



Flowers April — July, perhaps as most of our species until October. 



12. Helioscopia? 



Lin 



E. urabella quinque- 

 fida, trifida, dicnotoma; 



foliis floralibus obova- 



foliis cuneiformi- 

 , serratis, glabris; 



Umbel 



5- cleft 



3 



umoei ;>-cicii, ^ 

 cleft, dichotomous; flo- 



ral 



le a ves 



obovate; 



I 



leaves wedge-shaped 

 serrate, glabrous; cap 

 sules smooth. 



^ 



tis; 



bus 



capsulis laevibus. 



Sp. pi. 2. p. 914. 



Plant annual. Stem 12 

 altetnate, sessile, cune?te, obovrii.;^ uucij* amaic. ^.u^.^^^, -- ,. , ^, 



Kons of the umbel broad-lanceolate. Vmbei D-cleft, 3-cleft, the smau 



Lcavf^ 



18 inches high, glabrous, branching, i-^" '^ 

 )vate, finely serrate, glabrous, those at t"*^ 'i^ 



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