PENTANDRTA MONOGYNIA. 



303 



Ions:; the upper leaves lanceolate, clliate; stipules shorter tlian the 

 leaves, tiie base pmnatifid ; segments linear lanceolate, ciliate. Cft- 

 I'j.v cihate, in my specimens, sliorter than the corolla. Petals nale 

 blue ? ^ *^ 



My specimens agree exactly with one sent me from Pennsylvania, 

 by Dr Muhlenberg as the V. ai vensis, and excepting in the proportional 

 length of the calyx and corolla, and in the colour of the corolla, agree 

 with the specific character of Persoon. 



Found near the Chatahouchie river, Creek nation, by Dr. Latham^ 



Flowers 



Ifi. CoNCOLOR. ' 



V. caulibus erecti? ; fo- f Stems erect : leaves 



broad lanceolate, 



and 



with the lanceolate li- 

 near stipules very entire. 



liis lato-lanceolatis. stipu- 

 li que lanceolato-lineari- 

 biis, inti'gerriniis. Trans. 



Linn. Soc. 6 p. 309 t. 28. 



Pursh, ]. p. 175. 



Perennial. Sfein 1—2 f?et high, slightly angled, \vea\', erect. Lpaves 

 laiiceolatf, long, acuminate, rugose, entire or irregularly toothed. 

 Slipuleif linear lanceolate, entire. Peduncles very short. Flowers 

 8ina!l, paie screen. Petals 5, the 2 upper linear, recurved, entire ; the 

 2 lateral linear, toothed, recurved ; tiie lower one 2 parted. Spur 



very sliort. Stigma hooked, perforate, twice as long as the anther, 

 Foster. . 



Grows in the deep, shaded vallies of the mountains of Carolina.. 

 Dr. Macbride, 



Flowers June — July. 



IMPATIENS. Gen. pl. 1365. 



Calyx 2-phvllus. Co- 

 ToUa irreffulai is, calcara- 



Calyx % leaved. 



ta. 



Anthem 



connatsB. 



rolla 

 spur 



Co 



irregulai*, bearing a 



Anthers cohering. 



5 valved. 



Capsula supera, l-locu- j CcpsM^^superior, icelledj 

 Wis, 5-valvis. 



1. Non Tangeke. 



1. pedunculis soiitariis, [ Peduncles solitarj, 

 niultifloris ; foliis ovatis, ( many flowered j leaves 

 ol)tuse dentatis | genicu- ovate, obtusely dentate ; 

 lis caulinis tunientibus. knees of the stem swol- 



Sp. pi. 1. p. ii7fi. 



len. 



Mich. £. p. 149. var, a, Pursli, l. p. 171 



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