594 DIOECIA PENTANDRIA 



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1. Cannabina. Lin. 



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A. foliis ovato-lance 



Leaves ovate lance- 



olatis; capsuUs Isevibus olate; capsules smooth 

 acutangulis. I acutely angled. 





Sp. pi. 4. p. 767. Mich. 2. p. 234. Pursh,l.p.208. Nutt. 2. p: 237. 



Root fibrous, annual. Stem ereet^ 4 -8 feet high, slightly angled, very 

 glabrous, a little fistulous. Leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate, acute at each 

 tnd, ribbed, obscurely crenulate, 2-5 inches long, one to two and a half 

 wide, on petioles 1-3 inches long, generally coloured Flmcers in large 

 panicles axillary and terminal, the sterile more slender than the fertile. 

 Florets all sessile, or on very slender pedicels. Sterile florets; calyx 5- 

 parted (5-leaved?) segments lanceolate, acute, glabrous, the margins coloured 

 r . ^, , s '' ^11. r.. _i. .„ K „„ !«««■ oc iV,o r-alvY. Fftrtde florets: 



(obscurely 



calyx 3-parted, persistent; corolla 0. Gertn superior. St7jJes 0. Sttgmas 

 3-5, rcflexed. almost plumose. Cai^sule ovate, 3—5 angled, agreeing m 

 number with 'the stigmas. Angles obtilse or acute, slightly rugose, noi 

 opening. Seed ovate, compressed, glabrous, tapering at base by wHicn n is 

 attached to the base of the capsule. /. u * 



Grows in marshes and wet soils along the margins of our fresh water riv- 

 ers, resembling very much an amaranth. 



Flowers October — November. 



2. Rusocarpa. Mich. 



A. foliis ovali-lance- I Leaves oval-Ianceo 



atis; caps 

 igulis, rug( 



obtus- late; capsules obtusely 



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Mich. 2. p, 234. Sp. pL 4. p. 768. Pursh, 1. p. 208. Nutt. 2. p- 237- 

 Plant large, erect, 6—8 feet high. Stem thick, fistulous, angled. Mjc'i^ 



With this species I am unacquainted. At least I b^^^ "^1 . j\3ave 

 species in our niarshes, and as I felt some doubt where to refer i ? 

 described it with some minuteness, ^ ' j.^^^ 



Grows along the marshes of our rivers from Canada to Florida- 



Flowers 



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HUMULUS. Gen. Pl. 1523. 



iMasculi Cahjx 5- ! Sterile florets. Ca- 

 phylliis. Corolla 0. \hjx 5-leaved. \^oroi' 



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Foemineu Cahjxl-] Fertile florets, ,t«- 



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