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PEXTANDRIA BlONOGYNlA. 



This plant, whilst it differs in habit from tlie Q 

 floured in Quers Flora Hispanica,vol. G. t. 15. f. 2 

 >vith the Anjchia of Michaux, that I cannot hesital 

 as he has done, in this genus. 



Grows in dry soils, in the upper districts of Carolina, particularly 

 Fairfield. Dr. Macbridc. - ■' 



■August 



Flouers July 



S. Hernia RIO IDES. 



A. humifusa, confer 

 undique pubescc 



Mid] 



J 



fo 



liis 



g 



latis, iHUCionatls ; laciniis 

 calycis 



Prostrate, clustered 

 y puit 



J 



/ 



leaves oMong oval, cili- 



subul 



ate. 



miicronate 



J 



acii- 



g 



mine setaceo patiiloque. 



of the calyx subu 





Micl 



late, the point setaceous 



P 



Pursh, 1. p. 176. 



Collected in the upper districts 

 uc Serra, 



Flouers througli the summer. 



pan din 



of South-Carolina, by M. Conea 



3. Argi' 



Mich 



A. 



bens 



ffispitosa, procum 



J 



folils 



ibiis 



aciitissimis 



Ills 



J 



nodiis 



stipulis hi- 



longiori- 



bent 



Csespltose 



prociim- 



5 



leaves linear, a- 



luis ; calycibus aciimnia- 

 tis, apice barbatis, 



Mich. 1. p. 113. 



cute ; stipules 2, longer 

 than the joints ; leaves 



of the 



bearded 



acuminate 

 summit. 



; 



Achjranthes dichotoma, Sp. pi. i. p. ngo. 



Leaves op- 





Root perennial, fusiform. Stems assurgcnt, iointcd, terete, -la-^ 

 b ous toward, the summit, dichotomous, m^ch brine! ed 



Kche^freoue'ntV^'^"^';''^ ^'"y ^''vules generally 2 at the 



cTsf/ootX -f ' ^' '''«^ °^" ^""Ser than tlie jointsf giving the 

 U nf„S Iv 'Itr '^ appearance from which Michaux \L derived 

 inore distinct Wn^' '" ^'^.P-jcceding species, but the clusters 

 jnm^e distmct. Appendages behind the suminits of the e«?^xacumi- 



Fof mvlnprlT^'^^ f ^^''- ' fr "- *'^« mountains of Carolina, Mich. 



rtTryri"F:;;ry, kiii -f ^^' ^^ ^'- ^^"«^"' ^^'^ -"-^^^ *'-^ 



Flowers 

 iinined ^'"tIV n" rr^"'"'/ '^' '"^'"^^'^ "''«" ""'• plants are well ox- 



^n^ed. The northern A. Canadensis appears to me to differ mud^ 





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