PENT AND RIA MONOGYNIA, 263 



brous ; panicle expand- 

 ing ; flowers nodding. 



bris ; paniculis patenti- 

 bus; floribus nutantibus. 

 E. 



Mich. 1. p. 109. Pursh, 1. p. 159. 



Stem erect, 2 feet liigh, glabrous. Leaves sessile, the summit long^, 

 tapering and very acute; a cluster of small leaves in each axil. Pan- 

 kh terminal ; branches expanding, sometimes divaricate. Flowers 

 solitary, small, with small linear and subulate leaves at each division 

 e^ the panicle. 



Collected in the mountains of Carolina by Dr. Macbride. 



Flowers September. 



4. Erinoides. 



C. caulibus difFasis ; J Stem diffused ; leaves 

 foliis lanceolatis, decur- lanceolate, somewhat ser- 



rate, decurrent, with a 

 scabrous line; flowers on 

 peduncles, solitarj. 



rentibus, lineascabra ; flo- 

 ras pedunculatis, solita- 

 ^' Sp. pi. 1. p. ii7. 



Bigelow, p. 54. 



C. Aparinoides, Pursh, 8. p. 109. 



C flexousa? Mich. 1. p. 109. Pursh, 1. p. 159. 



Soot perennial.? Stem 12— 13 inches high, decumbent, flexuous. 



Mgled by the decurrent leaves, angles retrorsely aculeate. Leaves 



"nail, lanceolate, serrate, with the margins and midrib also retrorsely 



^culeate. Panicle distinct. Flowers small, solitary, terminal, nod- 

 ding. . . -^ 



^1^13 species agrees so exactly with the description of the C. Erinoi- 

 **y Liucfcus, that I stronglv suspect he was misinformed as to the 

 J?t»ve so I of the plant, when he recorded it as an African species. If 

 [^s t. Erinoides came really from Africa I have no doubt but this plant 

 ^^ J!; distinct species. 



wows in the mountains of SoutJi-Carolina and Georgia. 



flowers Auffust. 



'm 



SAMOLUS. Gen. pl. 



porolla hypocvatGiifor- \ Corolla hypocrateri- 

 ^^s. Stamina munita I form. Stamens guarded 

 squamis corolla. Capsu- by the scales of the co- 

 ^^ 1 ^ocularis, infera. rolla. Capsule i ceUed, 



inferior. 



*• Valerandi. gp. pl. 1. p. S^''^ 



