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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



Root fibrous, perennial. Stem erect, about 2 feet high, elabrotis, 

 leafy near the base. Leaves sessile, slightly amplexicaule, sparing? 

 cihate at base. Racemes few flowered ; a short leaf at the ba<«e°of 



each peduncle, linear lanceolate, dentate; peciuncles 2—3 lines lone. 



i^ ■ u " ^^ ^'^^ ^^^^'*^ *^^"'^' ' segmeiits dentate. Iwo Stipules 

 at the base of each peduncle, terminating with a gland. Corolla blue 

 the border liairy. Filaments shorter than the corolla. 



Grows in damp pine barrens. 



Flowers September— October. 



5. Inplata. 



L cauleerecto, birsuto; [ Stem erect, hirsute; 

 foliis ovaJi-Iaiiceolalis, | leaves oval lanceolate, 

 serratiSjhirsutis ; raceniis | serrate, hirsute; racemes 

 subpaniculatis ; capsulis I somewhat paniculate ; 

 inflalis. E. | capsules inflated. 



Sp.pl. 1. p. 946. Walt.p.218. Alich. 2.p. 152. Parsh, 2. p. 448. 



Moot perennial. Stem 1 — 2 feet high, branching. Leaves oblong, 

 oval and lanceolate, sessile. Flowt^rs in racemes, numerous: pedun- 

 cles 2 — 3 lines long. Calya: inflated, nerved, reticulate, gIabrous# 

 Corolla small, pale blue. Stamens scarcely as long as the tube of the 

 corolla. 



Grows in the mountains and upper country of Carolina and Georgia. 



iFlowers July — September. 



The leaves are aciid and stimulating to the mouth, and are, with the 

 rest of the plant, possessed of very active properties. They may be sQ 

 managed as to act as an emetic, cathartic and narcotic, but should be 

 used with great caution. According to Dr. Thatcher they promote per- 

 spiration and expectoration, and may be employed in asthma vvita 

 much iadvantage. In Massachusetts, where this plant as a mcqicme 

 has excited much attention, it^is usually given in tincture. 



6, SVPHILITICA. 



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L, caule erecto, hirsii- I Stem erect, hirsute; 



to ; fol 



enulatis ; Calycibus hir- ( creniilate ; cal} x hirsute 



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sutis, sinubus reflexis. I with the margins re 

 Mich. g. p. 151. ( ed. 



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Sp. pi. 1. p. 945. Pursh, 2. p. 447. 



Root perennial. Sfem erect, 3 feet high, angl^tl, the lotter part 

 nearly glabrous, leaves large, sessile, lanccolale, crcnulate an ^^^^ 

 rulate, tlie lower becoming nearly glabrous. Raceme icaij, v 



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