PENTANDRtA MONOGYNIA. SSI 



Var. Virginicum ; ra- | It varies with branches 

 tm angulatis, dentatis ; angled, toothed j leaved 

 Mis repandis, glabris. j repand, glal^rous. 



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Root perennial ? Stem herbaceous, erect, 2—3 feet high, angles 

 roughened; young branches pubescent. Lfflws sprinkled witii hair, 

 abraptly narrowed, then tapering at base ; petioles 2—3 inches long. 

 i^oirers nodding, in umbels 3—6 tlawered, between the leaves, ('a- 

 /jxone leaved, persistent; tube turbinate, pube-ceat ; border 5 cleft; 

 segments oval, acute. Corolla white, inserted into the caljx, yellov 

 at base, pubescent ; tube very short ; border 5 cleft ; segments acute, 

 expanding, somewhat reflected. Filaments inserted into the tube of 

 the corolla, short. Germ, superior. Style longer than the stamens, 

 itiry at base, curved near the summit. Stigma capitate. Berry 

 Hack, 2 celled. Seeds many in each cell, lenticular. 



Grows in rich, damp soil a. 



Flowers tlu-ouo-h the summer, beginning in April* 



S. Mammosum. 



S. caule aculeate, her- [ Stem prickly, herbace- 

 ^ceo ; foliis cordatis, ous ; leaves cordate, an- 

 angulato-Iobatis, utrinque gled and lobed, villous on 

 "losis aculeatisque. Sp. both sides and prickly. 



Ip. 1041. I 



P«rsh, I. p. 156. 



Annual. Leaves equal in length and breadth, rather obtuse. Fruit 

 yellow, of the figure of a snmll inverted pear. Linn. 



I possess specimens collected near Louisville, Georgia, by Mr, 

 -■ackson, which may possibly belong to this species. Leaves broad, 

 nearly oval, slightly angled, villous on both sides and prickly along 

 ^Je veins, sometimes obtuse at base, but scarcely cordate, on very 

 Jhort petioles. Stem villous and prickly. Floivers in loose racemea, 

 «raiinal, and opposite the leaves. Corolla pale yellow, about the 

 ^'^e of that of the S. Carolinense. The fruit I have not seen. 



"fows on the sea coast of Virginia and Carolina. Pursh. 



'lowers June—Ausust. 



^' ViRGiNiANUM. « 



S. caule erecto, aculea- I Stem erect, prickly ; 

 ^? ; foliis pinnatifidip, un- leaves pinnatified, prick- 



"'que aculeatis -, laciniis | ly on all side? ; segments 



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