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PENTANDBIA MONOSYNIA; 



I. Thapsus. 



V 



foliis 



rrenti 



^ - 



Leaves decurrent, to. 

 mentose on bath sides; 



stem sim 



bus, utrinque tomentosis 

 caule simplici. 



4. p. 1001, 



Walt, p, 95. Pursh, 1. p. I42! 



i?oof somewhat fusiform, (biennial, LJn.) appears to be perennialia 



this country. Stem herbaceous, 2—5 feet high, succulent, tomentose, 



TVmged by the decurrent leaves. Leaves alternate, lar<ie, lanceolate, 



crenate, remarkably tomentose, canescent. Flowers crowded in a 



terminal spike, each liavlng a s?nall subulate leaf at the base. Calyx 



1 leaved, carapanulate, tomentose, glabrous wiiliin, persistent ; border 



5 cleft J segments acute. Corolla 1 Detailed, yellow, tomentose on 



the outside and sprinkled with glandular atoms, very short; border 



5 cleft ; segments unequal, obtuse, twice as large as the calyx. File- 



vients 5, inserted into the tube of the corolla, unequal, hairy. Mthers 



crescent shaped, 1 lobed, yellow. Germ superior, ovate, tomentose. 



Style bent, as long as the stamens, tomentose at base. Stigma thick, 



obtuse. Seed somewhat turbinate, dotted, attached to a large central 



receptacle. 



^ Grows in dry pastures ; introduced Into this country In all proba- 

 bility at an early period af its settlement, now universally diffused. 

 Flowers May — August. Mullein. 



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S. Lychnitis. 



V. foliis cuiieiformi- I Leaves oblong, wedge 

 oblongisjsupradenudatis; sbaped, naked above; 

 caule angulato, panicula- I stem angled, panicled. 



to. 



%50. 



Smith, FI. Brit, l, p. 



Sp.pl. 1. p. 1003. 



Walt. p. 95. Pursh, 1. p. 142. 



ith 



Stem straight and angular. Leaves very white beneath, o^^^^^V ^ 

 a slight hoariness, above. Flowers pale yellow, clustered on »h''" 

 peduncles. Eng. Bot. No. 58. 



Grows in Carolina. Dr. Muhlenberg. 



Flowers June — July. 



3. Blattahia. 



V. foliis amplexicauli- 

 bus, oblongis, glabris,ser- 



Leaves amplexicaule, 

 oblong, glabrous, serrate j 



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