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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



"Varies ; with leaves !anceo1ate, and 'with tlie calyx longer cr shortef 

 than the corolJa, and probably comprehends more species" than one. 

 Grows in rich and wet soils, in marshes on the margins of fresh 



water rivers. 



Fiowers June — September, 



7. Chlohoides. 



a del 



foliis 



Stem weak 



5 



leaves 



ectis; ramispau- lanceolate, erect: branch 



CIS unifloris 



J 



floribus 



7 



1 paititis, laciniis ca- 

 linearibiis, corolla 



^ 



es few, 1 flowered ; flow 

 ers 7 — 12 parted; seg. 



calv 



Pursh, 1. shorter than the corolla. 



brevioribus, 



p. 138. 



Mich. 1. p. UC. 

 Chlora dodecandra, Sp. pi. 2. p. 



This species, like the preceding, varies much, and probably now in- 

 cludes several distinct species. 



Varies; a. erecfa; with the stem rigid, erect; leaves linear ; corolla 



generally 10 parted, segments lanceolate. Chironia de^ 



''^I 



candra, Walt. p. 95. 



sparin 



lanceolate, the lower ones nearly elliptical ,- corolla 8 

 parted, segments obovate ? very thick and coriaceous. 

 From specimens collected near St. Mary's, Georgia, by 

 Dr. Baldwin. 



c. Jlea^uosa ; with the stem flexuou* ; leaves linear lanceo- 

 late, corolla 12 parted, fcegments long, lanceolate; stig- 

 mas revokta ? Chironia dodecandra, Walt, p, 95. 

 ^ In my specimens of this last variety the flower is nearly 5 incks 

 m diameter, and the stigmas distinctly revolut%. 

 Grows in boi>s and around pine barren ponds. 

 Flowers July — September. 



> 



H 



8. GENflANOIDES. 



S. foHis longis, lineari- 

 ; floribus axillari- 



bus 



bus, sessilibus, supremis 

 confertis ; coroilis subde- 

 cempartitis. E. 



Leav 



long, 



linear 



flowers axillary, sessile, 

 the upper ones crowded; 



corolla generally lO part- 

 ed. 



Stem erect, slightly angled, leaves long (2—3 inches), linear, 

 acute. Flowers axdlary and terminal, the terminal ones duster 



n ««m^ «n«.^,oc nf n.„.;„_ ^^;^^, campanulate; bordef 



^ ^8 ill some species 



