TETRANDRIA MONOGYNlAw lOf 



ceolate, mucronate, gla- 

 brous ; flowering branch- 

 es long, 3 flowered at the 



y. TRirLORUM. Mich. 



G. caulibus procum- I Stems procumbent, gla- 

 bentibus, glabriusculis ; | brous ; leaves oval lan- 

 foliis ovali lanceolatis, 

 mucronatls, glabrisj ra- 

 mulis floriferis elongatis, 



apice trifloris ; fructibus | summit ; fruit smaU, his 

 parvis, hispidis. Mich, j pid. 

 1. p. 80. 



Pursh, 1. p. 104. 



Stem slightly hispid just beneath each whorl. Leaves 4 — 6, smootky, 

 inder a lens shewing some hairs along the margins. Flowers white* 

 very small, on short peduncles. 



- Grows in shaded, rocky place 

 Pursh. 



Flowers July. 



ina 



I have not seen tJiis species in the Southern States. Michaux speatct 

 •fit as a Canadian plant. For my specimens I am indebted to 



Bigelow, of Boston. 



Dnv 



8. CuspiDATUM. Muhl. Cat. 

 G. caule prostrato, gla- I Stem prostrate, 

 bro ; foliis subsenis, Ian- brous ; leaves by 



vcumusjucummaiis, pauce 

 ciliatis ; pedunculis trifi- 

 tJis ; coroflsB laciniis acu- 



lanceolate, acuminate, 



shghtlyciliate; peduncles 

 trifid ; segments of the 



^"^^^•s- E. I corolla acuminate. 



looth 'T/l^ ^ P^^^'^^^^^; ^^T ^•^"^' ^"^'•^"y prostrate, rather 



H 1.5^^1 ?'■'""?'? ^"^^*^^.^«- ^«°^'«« "^"ch attenuated at 



•aaooth 

 bas 



thp h-.^ I-' •""^'"\^ pumvcu aL tne summit, sprinkled with hairs • 

 S^r'&'Sv^ trichotomous at point, 'afterwards dichTo: 

 y^hlt; JZTLtT'^^ ^^^^' ^^«*« ^i^l«"«. thickly clothed wiCli 



*hite hooked hairs, 

 ^rows in damp, shaded soils* 

 'lowers June— August. 



*l' CiRctzANs. Mich. 



fob?^ '^,''^^^^^?^^' §1^^^<> 5 I stem erect, glabrous ; 



Pedunp?,r T''..'^''"^^' ' ^^^^^« ^y fo^rs, ovate 



P^cluncuhs brevibus, di- peduncles short divarW 



