PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. d35 



6. Heterophylla. Mich. 



L. foliis oppositis, imis j I eaves opposite, the 

 suborbiculatis, superiori- | lower nearly orbicular 

 l)us linearibus, sessilibus ; j the upper linear, sessile 5 

 floribus cernuis. I flowers 



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Mich. I. p. 127. Pursh, I. p. ISft 



L. lanceolata ? Walt. p. 92. 



Root perennial- Stem erect, 12 — 18 inches liighj somewhat angled, 

 glabrous, brancluug. Leaves as they ascend, becoming gradually 

 more narrow, glabrous, ciliate near the base, thick, opake. Flowers 

 axillary; peduncles shorter than tlie leaves, one flowered. Segments 

 of the calyx lanceolate, acuminate. Segments of the corolla scarcely 

 tonger than the calyx, crenate, nmcronate ? 



wows in swamps or damp clayey soils, in the middle and low 

 country of Georgia and Carolina, but not in the immediate vicinity 

 ^ the ocean. 



flowers June—Auirust 



ANAGALLIS. Gen. pi^. 270. 



m M 



(Corolla rotata. Cap- I Corolla rotate, Cap- 

 i-locularisj circura- sule l celled, circumscis- 



3 



mla 



'Cissa. I sed 



t Arvensts. 



A. foliis indivisis ; caule | Leaves undivided 

 PJ'ocumbente. Sp. pL 1. I stem procumbent. 



p. 821. i' i- » 



^wsh, 1. p. 135. 



^"i annual. Stem 6 — 12 inches long, procumbent. Leaves op- 

 J^' ' sessile, ovate-lanceolate, entire, obscurely nerved. Flowers 

 I ^7» axillary, opposite. Peduncle twice as long as tlie leaf. CO" 

 lor I! ^5'^^*^' persistent ; segments linear lanceolate, very acute. 

 1^ i>7 P^'"^^d, red ; segments nval, crenulate, longer than the ca* 

 iorin ,^"** shorter than the corolla. Geryn superior. Style fili'' 

 Im'wL 1 ^ as the stamens. Stigma simple, obtuse. ' 



tttenH- **"ginally from Europe, now naturalized and gradually 



"am? over the United States. Found on Sullivan's Island, 



Irowin T " v;nueu oxaies. 



Flnu'' .y between the sand-hills. 

 '^«^ers June-July. 



