TRTANDRIA MONOGYNT\, 49 



caiilo erecto, scabro, sim- | erectj scabrouS; very siiii 

 plidssiiiio. Sp. pi. I. p. I pie- 



C. communis? "Walt. p. 68. 



C. angustifolia, Mich- 1. p. 24. Pursh, 1. p. ST. 



Roof perennial, fibrous: fibres tbick, fleshy. Stem herbaceous, pro- 

 cumbent and erect, a little pubescent and scabrous, bratiching near 

 tiie base-' Leaves narrow-lanceolate, 5 nerved, smnevvliat scabrous oa 

 the upper surface, smooth on the under; sheath scabrous,* ciliate. 

 Feduncles generally 3 flowered, opposite the leaves. Flowen^ appruxi- 



\ 



^ 



mate, enclosed before flowerin:^ in a bractea. Bractea cordate^ acu- 

 mrnate, compres-ed, scabrous, In the time of floweriii;: filled with a 

 secreted fluid. Proper peduncles succulent, round, as long as the* 

 bractea, curved and concealed m the bractea when you no;, extendinof 

 >v leu the flower is prepared to expand Calyx? 3 leaved; leaves 

 oval, white, one smaller tlian the rest. Corolla 3 petalled ; 2 lanxer, 

 ungaiculate, cordate and round ; one very small. J\*ectarles 4, on tila- 

 inents, blue at base, yellow n^^ar the summit : 3 as in the former spe- 

 cies; one larger, cornpi-essed, recurved, 2 cleft at base. Filaments 3t 

 Stifle longer than the stamens. 



Grows in dry sandy soils. 



Varies ; 



a. in open grounds, procumbent, branching, glabrous. 



b. in shaded spots, erect, simple, scabrous. 



Flowers May. JSTarrow-'eaved tommelinaJ' 



3. HiRrEM.A. Vahl. 



C. foliis lanceolatis, pe- | Lf^aves lanceolate, pe- 

 tiolatis. cauleque erecto [ tiolate and Avith the ere:;! 

 pilosis, conduplicatis; in- { stem hairy, doubled; in- 

 iiivoluciis lateralibus, ter- | volucnims lateral and 

 iiunali!)iisque sessilibus. | ternuiial, sessile. 

 Vahl. Eiunn. pi. 2. p. 166. 



Pursh, l. p. 31, 



jSffm lon^, branching. Pursh. To this species Pursh refers the &, 

 Ion!>;ifolia of Michaux. 



V 



Grows ill shaded, rockj situations, 

 Flowers July. 



nainj CommeUnas 



** Tripetalce ; petalis I ** Three petalled; 3 

 trihns mnjoribus, \ petals being larger. 



4. VlK(;lMCA. 



C. corollis subsequnli- I Corolla nearly equal i 

 bus 'y foliis lanceolatis, leaves lanceolate, soiuii- 





