84S PENTANDIIIA DIGYNIA. 



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Perennial. Stem erect, 1 — 2 feet high, branching, 4 angled, slighter 

 ly winged, glabrous. Leaves ovate lanceoTate, sessile, half embracing 

 the stem, acute, glabrous. Flowers generally terminal, pedicellate, 

 ,3 — 5 on the summit of the branches. Corolla nearly tubular, smaller 



than usual in this genus; border 5 cleft ; the segments undulate? 

 simple, niucronate. 



Found among the mountains of Carolina, by Dr, Macbrid?,. 

 Flowers 



7- Acuta, Midi. 



G. caule 4.gono ; follis I Stem 4 angled ; leaves 

 subamplexicaiilibus, ob- j somewhat aniplexicaule, 

 longis, acutissiiiiis 5 floii- | oblong, very acute ; flow- 

 bus fasciculatis,temiinaU- I ers in clusters, terminal 

 bus lateralibusque ; co- j And lateral ; throat of the 

 rollae fauce ciliata. Mich. | corolla ciliate. 

 1. p. 177- 



Pursh, 1. p. 180. 



Stem and lenvRS erect. Flowers small, of a greenish yellow hue ; 

 the flower-bearing branches very short ; and the segments of the co- 

 rolla linear lanceolate. Mich. 



Grows on the highest mountains of Carolina. Miqli^ 

 Flowers 



• ERYNGIUM. Cen. pl. 



Flores capitati. In- I Flowers capitate. In- 

 volucrum polyphyllum. volucrum many leaved. 

 C«/^a; proprius a-phyllus, ] Proper calyx 5 leaved, 

 superus. Corolla 5-peta- j superior. Corolla 5 petal- 

 la. Receptaculum palea- j led. Receptacle chaffy, 

 ceum. Fnictus corona- I Fruit crowned, divisible 

 tus, 2-partibilis. Pers. j into 2 parts. 



4.. AquATicuM. 



E. foliis gladiatis, cilia- | Leaves gladiate, fring- 

 to-spinosis ; floralibus in- I ed with soft spines ; floral 

 divisis, brevissimis. La | leaves undivided,^ very 

 Marck. | short 



Sp. pi. 1. p. 1357. Pursh, 1. p. 189. 



E. jttccifoUum, Mich, 1. p. iQ.4. 



