BIOECIA HEXANDRIA 



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4b Lanceolatus. Pursh. 



P. 



foliis 



deciduis, 



lanceolatis, tenuissirae 

 et remote serrulatis, u~ 

 trinque acutis, utrinque 

 glabris, floribus foemi- 

 ueis sparsis, subgemi- 



pedunciilatis, 6 fi- 



nis 



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dis, masculis 

 tis, 3-andris. 



Leaves deciduoas, 

 lanceolate, finely and 

 remotely serrulate, a- 

 cute at each end, gla- 

 brous on each surface, 

 fertile florets scattered, 

 generally in pairs^ on 

 peduncles, 6-cIeft, ste- 

 rile aggregate, trian- 

 drous. 



Pursh, 1. p. 220. Nutt. 1. p. 213. 



Berries small, scarlet. Pursh. 



Grows in the lower districts of Carolina and Georgia. Pursh. 



Flowers June. 



This species has escaped my notice. But I believe there are several spe- 

 cies of this genus with deciduous leaves yet to be described. I saw in the 

 Herbarium of Mr. Lyon many years ago, one collected near Augusta, and 

 one or two collected near Tuckabatchie on the Talapoosa river which ap- 

 peared to be unknown. I have, however, no memorandums of them. 



5, Glaber. Lin. 



P. foliis semperviren- 

 tibus, cuneato-lanceo- 



latis, coriaceis, glabris, 

 nitidis, superne parce 

 serratis; pedicellis foe- 

 mineis solitariis, mas- 

 culis 3 — 6 floris. 



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Leaves perennial, 

 cuneate-Ianceolate, co- 



riaceous, glabrous, shi- 



ning, sparingly serrate 



near 



summit 



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r 



tile pedicels solitary, 

 sterile 3 — 6 flowered. 



Sp. pi. 2. p. 226. Walt. p. 247. Mich. 2. p. 236. Pursh, 1. p. 2^0. 



Nutt. 1. p. 213. "' - '• '" 



A small shrub, the fertile plants rarely exceeding 3 feet in height, branch- 

 ing, bushy, the sterile 3 — 5 feet high, virgate, the yomg branches slightly pu- 

 bescent. Leaves alternate, cuneate-lanceolate, perennial, very glabrous ex- 

 cepting along the midrib, on petioles 5 — 6 lines long. Flowers axillary, the 

 peduncles of the sterile flowers sometimes clustered, each 3 — 6 flowered. 

 Sterile flowers generally 6-parted and hexandrous, the stamens inserted af 



