366 PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



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tis, obsolete crenulatis. [ revolute, obscurely cre- 

 Sp. pi. 1. p. 14 S7. I nulate. 



Walt. p. 116. Mich. 1. p. 178. Pursh, 1. p. 201. 

 A shrub 4--I2 feet high, the branches virgate, when young covered 



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Leaves, as in the whole 



genus, opposite, petiolate, slightly acuminate, glabrous on the upper 

 Surface, beneath dotted, the veins and margins pubescent. Flowers 

 m naked terminal cjmea. PerfMnc^t-s jointed, pubescent. Calyx very 

 small, white. Corolla 2—3 time* as large as the calyx, white ; se</. 

 nients^ obtuse, reflected. Filaments almost twice as lon^- as the co- 

 rolla, inserted into its tube. Anthers nearly globose, 2 Celled, yel- 

 low. Germ clothed with the tube of the calyx. Sfifl-s ? Stiima 

 obscurely 3 parted. Drupe oval, blue, contalniim a hard bony seed. 

 JMichaux mentions a variety in the mountains of Georgia with pe- 

 rennial leaves. In the lower country the leaves adhere to a late ne- 

 nod of the winter, ^ 



Grows in swamps, ponds, &c. Common, 

 Flowers April — May. 



6. Obovatum. Walt. 



y. glabrum ; foliis obo- | Glabrous ; leaves obo- 

 vatis, creiiatis, dcntatis | vate, creiiate, dentate or 

 seu integeriimis, obtusls ,• I entire, obtuse ; cjmes 

 cynils sessilibus ; fructi- | sessile ; fruit ovate, near- 

 bus ovato-subrotundis. | \y round 

 Pursh, 1. p. 201. 



Walt. 1. p. 116. 



V. cassinoides. Mich. 1. p. ir9 ? 



Shrub 4—8 feet high ; branches virgate. Leaves wedge shaped, 

 obovate, obscurely crenulate, sometimes entire, crowdetf near the 

 c;ymes; the lower leaves more obovate, the upper lanceolate, the un- 

 der surface and peduncles covered with glandular punctures! 



Grows along the margins of rivers. \ery common about the ter- 

 mination ot tide water. 



Flowers April — May. 



7. Cassinoides. 



y. glabrum ; foliis ovL | Glabrous ; leaves ovate 

 to.Iauceolatis,utriiique a- | lanceolate, acute at each 



cutis, crenatis, margine 1 end, crenate, with the 



