^2jS PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 



9. Amplexicaulis. Mich 

 A. glaberrima ; caule 



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decumbcnte ; foliis ses- 

 silibijs, cordatis 



Very glabrous ; stems 

 decumbent ; leaves ses- 

 sile, cordate, strongly 



glaucis, appressis ; um- j veined, glaucous, appres- 

 bellis terminalibus axilla- sed ; umbels terminal 

 rlbusque. E. | and axillary. 



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Mich. I. p. 1 15. Pursh, 1. p. 182. 

 A. hutnistrata, Walt. p. 105. 



ItoQt perennial. Stem 1~2 feet long, terete, generally decumbent, 

 as if too weak to support its thick, succulent leaves. Leaves large, 

 Veins prominent, purple. Corolla cinereous. Leaves of the crown 

 truncate, scarcely longer than the corpuscle, white; horns longer? 

 than the crown j corpuscle purple at base, white at the summit. Fol^ 



licles smooth. 



All of tlie species of this genus exude, when broken, a mllk*Iike 

 sap: this more abundantly than any other. 



escrows in the driest and most sandy soils. 



Flowers April— July, 



iO. PURPURASCENS. 



A. caule simplici ; fo- I Stem simple ; leaves 

 liis ovatis, subtus villosis ; j ovate, villous on the un- 

 timbellis crectis : necta- I der surface ; umbels c- 

 riis resupinatis ? Sp. pL | rect ; nectaries resupine 



4. p. 1265. 



Pursh, 1. p. 181. 



Stem 2 feet high. Leaves nearly sessile, oblong, mucronate, slight*. 

 3y cordate. TJmhe- terminal, erect. Corolla bright purple. JK^ctary 

 in my specimens erect- 



Grows in shady svvamps- Virginia — Carolina. Pursh. 



The only specimens I have seen of this species were from Connec- 

 ticut. 



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11. Laurifoliv. Mich. 



A. foliis subsessilibus, 1 Leaves nearly sessile, 

 ovatis, superne sensim | ovate, tapering to the 

 angustatis, acutissimis, | sumraitj very acute, gla* 

 glabris ; umbellis pedun- | brous ; umbels on long 

 culatis, terminalibus axil- j peduncles, terminal and 

 laribusque, E. j axillai'y. 



Mich. 1. p. 117* Pursh, 1. p. 182. 



A. cor data ? Walt. p. iCffv 







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