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^ rollis calyce duplo longi- I rolla twice as long as tlie 

 oribus, angustioribus. Sp. | calyx, and narrower* 



pi. 1. p. 141. 



Mich. I. p. 15. 



Root perennial. /S'fem herbaceous, erect, mucti branched, 1 — 2 feefc 

 high. Leaves sometimes obtuse at base, hairy underneath, on petiole* 

 £ — 3 inches long. Flowers in 6 flowered whorls, in reality composed 

 of 2 opposite, 3 flowered peduncles. Segments of the calyx acute, 

 the upper one a little reflexed. Cornl'a bright scarlet; the upper lip 

 erect, short, emar^inate; the lower lip larger, 3 lobed; the middle 

 lobe larger, 2 cleft. Transverse jUament scarlet, bearing an anther 



only at one extremity. 



Grows on the southern islands of Georgia. In the streets of Beau- 

 fort, common. 



Flowers through the whole summer. Scarlet Sa^et 



B. Azure A. La Marck. 



S. foliis loiigo-lineari- | Leaves long, linear, 

 bus, lavibus; calyce pu- I smooth ; calyx pubes- 

 bentCj brevissime trifido. j cent, 3 cleft, segments 



I very short. 



La Marck, Encyc. 6. p- 625. 

 S. angustifola, Mich. l.p. 15. 

 S. ccelestina ? Bartram. 

 S. acuminata, Muhl. Cat. 

 S. Mexicana ? Walt. p. 65. 



Eoot perennial. Stem 6 feet high, much branched. Unper leaves 

 linear, very entire ; (lower leaves lanceolate, serrate. Mich.) Fiow- 

 ers large, azure, very beautiful. (Teeth of the cali^x rounded, upper 

 one nearly entire. Mich.) 



I have never seen this plant growing. I have received, however, 

 many specimens of it, and in them the leaves have been invariably li- 

 near, entire, smooth, not at all acuminate. 



Since writing the above I have been informed by Dr. Baldwin that 

 this species varies with the corolla blue, and white, with the lower 

 leaves, and sometimes all the leaves, lanceolate, pubescent. Tins laj^t 

 variety I had found on Hilton Hea^', and in Catliam county, Georgia, 

 and considered it as a distinct species. 



Grows in the upper country of Georgia and Carolina. Mr. Lyon* 



Flowers through the summer. JVa 



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6. Obovata. E. 



S. foliis majuscuVi?!, I Leaves large, ohovate^ 

 -obovatis, dentatis, pubes- | toothed, pubescent j flow- 



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