DIOECIA TETRANDRIA, 



681 



I. Angustifolia, MuhL Cat, 



I. Angustifolia var. Ligustrifolia, Pursh, 2, p. 118. 



A shrub 6 



\ 



-10 feet high, like the rest of the genus Stoloniferous, 

 . Leaves acute, rigid, coriaceous, perennial. Fruit si 



bran- 



scatter- 



ches expanding 

 ed, solitary. 



This shrub has been to me very rare. I have only seen it once, and then 

 in fruit. Its leaves are as long as those of the 1. Dahoon, but not half as 

 wide; entire, very acute, but not mucronate. It is the I. Angustifolia of 

 Iwuhl. Cat.; but this name has been applied to the next species, and to avoid 

 confusion I have restored to this plant the name under which I understand it 

 was cultivated in the garden of the late William Hamilton of the Wood- 

 lands, Philadelphia. 



Found in fruit in the little Ogeechee Swamp at Preston's Old Field, about 

 12 miles from Savannah. 



1 



4. Myrtifolia. Walt. 



foliis lineari-Ian- 

 ceolatis, mucronatis, ri 



Leaves linear-lance- 

 olate, mucronate, rigid, 



gidis, utrinque glaber- very glabrousj fertile 



floribus ferdli- flowers solitary. 



nmis; 



bus, solitariis. Mich. 



Walt, p, 241. Mich. 1. p. 229- 



L Angustifolia, Pursh, ], p. 118. Nutt. 1. p. 109. 

 L Rosmarinifoliaj La Marck. Muhl.i 



A shrub, or rather a small irregular tree, with branches expanding, rigid, 

 pubescent when very young. Leaves alternate, perennial, sometinies entire, 

 occasionally with 2 or 3 sharp serratures. Petioles 1—2 lines long, pube- 



Peduncles of the sterile flowers compoundly triflorous. 

 of the calyx as long as the tube, acute, erect. 

 oval. 



scent. 



Seffments 



Corolla white. Semjients 



Anthers nearly white. (Fertile flowers axillary, solitary. 



Grows around ponds in flat pine-barrens. 

 Flowers in May. . 







5. Cassejxa. 



. foliis ovalibus, u 

 trinque obtusis, crena- 

 to-serratis. 



Walt. p. 241. Mich. 2. p. 229. 



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f 



Leaves oval, obtuse 

 at each end, crenatc ly 

 serrate. 



I. Vomitoria, Sp. pi. 1. p. 709. Pursh, 1. ?. 118. Nutt. I . p. 1 09 



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