TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. JI08 



i^erennial. Leaves generally long, narrow, lanceolate, 5 — 5 nerv- 

 ed, resembling much those of the P. lanceolata. Scape long, pubes- 

 cent near the base. Flowers scattered, sometimes solitary, some-*' 

 times, particularly near the summit^, in small clusters, glabrous. 



This sppcics is generally pubescent, but in open pastures it is some* 

 times nearly glabrous ; the leaves may occasionally be found ovate^ 



Jtnceolate, as described by La Marck, but this is not their general 

 character. 



Grous in the moist pine barrens of St- Stephens, South Carolina* 

 very abundantly. St Mary's, Georgia, Dr. Baldwin, 

 Flowers all summer. 



CENTUNCULUS. 



€ahjx ^.Mns, Corol I Calyx 4 cleft. CoroL 

 to 4-fida, patens. S^ami- k 4 cleft,expanding. Sta~ 

 J?s brevia. Capsula 1- inens short. Capsule i 

 locularis, circumscissa. celled, ci; 



i. Lanceolatus. Mich, 



cuniscissed 



Leaves lanceolate, oval 

 and obovate, acute ; flow- 

 axillary, sessile : stem 



^ C. foliis hito-lanceola- 

 fis, ovalibus obovatisque, 

 acuus; floribus axillari- 



bus, sessilihus ; caule \ prostrate 

 prostrato. E. 



Mich. 1. p. 



persistent 



» I<>n» as the tube rn7lJ^\ i^'^'r'l"^ ' segments lanceolate, twice 

 P««s?enT the tube doseU I? f 1 ^ %V"^' ^""^er than the calyx^ 



^otJlla between th^seVrnpnti*?' ^'"^"^P^'-^nt, inserted 'into the 

 t-Jse. Gf„.„;7'Lw?, II ?"? a^ lie stamens. Stiska simnle. oh. 



"?e. Capsule sloho&e I c(^\]^,f Si I **"^«ia simple, ob- 



^^Sd^ene/ like sha-reen f.rt 't, "'^?y» somewhat top-shaped, 

 » central receptacle? ' ^ "^ '''"'" ^^'' circumference, atLheS to 



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considered 

 them ; but I 



Grow 



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