18 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



all obtuse. J^ilaments 2, shorter than the corolla, dilated at base, in- 

 serted into the tube of the corolla at the fissures of the lo\ver seg-^ 

 ments. Mthers 2 lobed, globose, white* Germ superior. Style fili- 

 form, as long as the anthers, bending to them- Stigma nearly glo- 

 bose. Capsule globose, 1 celled, 2 valved. Seeds many, oval, trans- 

 versely striate, attached to a central receptacle. 



Grows in shallow vrater and in muddy places. Very common,, 



Flowers nearly through the whole year. 



Round-leaved J^Iicranthemum^ 



2. Emahginatum. E. 



M. loliis ovalibus obo- I Leaves oval and obo- 

 vatisque, emarginatis 5 vate, emarginate : flow- 

 flonbiis sessilibus. E. | ers sessile. 



Boot perennial. 5<m prostrate or floating, creeping. Leaves ses^ 



havin? 1^1 "^''"''^^ ^ '''''''^- ^"^-""^ ^^^^ P^^^^^'i'^g it only differs in 

 ha>jng Its leaves more remote, 3 or 4 times as long, obovate sliclitly 



1* Irkni'j^H^ -AU 111 -I 



Flowers through the wliole summer. 



Large-leaved MUranthemiimi 



PIKGUICULA. Gek. pl. 4o. 



ratf^l^Ki 'K-t'- 1 ^"-""'^ ""gent. «ith a 



1. El 



1 celled 



. P. corolla limbo sub- 1 Bniflpi. «f *i n 



Sf Tob» "^ e,Xt ctr:egret 



presso, obtusoj tubo dimi 

 dio breviore. E. 



Mich. l.p. n. Pursh, 1.TU14 

 P. cojrulea, Walt. p. 63. 



Koot perennial, conip 

 Leaves, radical,* spathuh 



emire 5 spur compressed, 

 obtuse, half as lona; as 

 the tube. 



Stem 0, 



"lied iu, (as i„% ■^;;s7ecirrn thU 'r f f^' ™"<i,"l.e Margins 

 deltoid uk sca^, 'coKoLrS-lo'XS'? f' '",>-' "'^ ' 



in • I '^ '^ ""^ "^'^ appear uwe ^^ 



12 mchcs higl,, viUous at base, 



