DIOECIA DIANDRIA. 



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jar teeth. Stipules lanceolate, subulate, silky. Amenfs early, (before the 

 leaves.) ^afc* oblong, obtuse, hairy along the margin. Ge^^'lanceolate, 

 villous. Styles long. Stigmas 2. Wijld. ' 



Grows in wet meadows and mountain swamps; Pennsylvania to Carolina. 

 Flowers March — April. 



** Foliis serrafis. 



^^ Leaves serrate 



4. CONIFERA. 



Wangenlieim. 



S. foliis oblongo-Ian- 

 ceolatis, remote serrii 



Leaves oblong-Ian- 

 , ceolate, remotely serrii- 

 latis, supra glabris, sub- 1 late, glabrous on the 

 tus planis, tomentosis; | upper surface; flat and 

 stjpulis Junatis, sub- 1 tomentose underneath 

 dentatis; 



lanceolatis, 

 styjo elonoato. 



germinibus stipules falcate, slightly 



villosis,- 1 toothed; germs lanceo- 

 late, villous; style long. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 705. Pursh, 2. p. 6l2. Nutt. 2. p. 231 



S. Longirostris, Mich. 2. p. 226. 



^\ small shrub, the branches when young pubescent. Leaves 



eeolate, acute, finely and acutely serrate, entire near the base, green and 

 glabrous on the upper surface, soft and tomentose underneath, almost clab- 

 rous when old. Petioles long. J,nc?it early. Scales lanceolate, very vil- 

 lous. Germ lanceolate, villous. Slylt ' 



grows in shaded, dry, gravelly soils. PJrsh. 



Flowers March — April. 



Style long. Stigmas four. 



5. Discolor. 



Leav 



oblong. 



S. foliis oblongis, ob- 

 tusiusculis, glabris, re- j ther obtuse^ 

 mote serratis, apice in- remotely serraTc, entire 

 legernmis, subtusglau- near the summit, glau- 



f s 



glabrous. 



) 



amentis 



sub-coae 



taneis; jrerminibus ses- 

 silibus, 



losis. 



? 



a- 



lanceolatis 



cous underneath 

 ments appearing with 

 the leaves; germs ses- 

 sile, lanceolate, hairy. 



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