TttEXANDUTA TRTGYNIA^ 



1jl3 



TU Hi YM i. 



RUM EX. Gen. pl. 61?. 



Calu 



\)hy\] 



P, 



Calijx 3 leaved 



Pe 



iala 3, connlventia. Se 



men 



q u e 



a angled. 



ing, 



Seed 1 



J 



1. Sanguineus, - 



R 



valvLilis 



iiitegerri- 

 mis, uiiica conspicue gra- 



Val 



ly bearing a grain ; 



n 



fo 



ccolatis. Sp. pl. 3. p. 350. 



leaves 

 late. 



date lanceo- 



Walt. p. 126. Pursli, 1. p. 24 r. 

 Perennial. Root leaves largt, entire, sometimes obtuse, variegatecl 



in a singular manner by its blood red veins. Flowers in terminal, 

 vciticillate panicles Calyx small, and with the corolla persistent j 

 iftcr flowering the petals increase in size and close over the seed; 



the other petals have smaller ones. 



Stifles rery short. 



Rure in the low coun 



^ red ^ 



Seed 3 angled. 



Met witli occasionally around Charleston. 

 try- Said by Linnpeus to have been carried to Europe from Virginia 

 Flowers June — July. 



3. PuLCHER, 



R. valvulis dentatis ; 



#4 



^^ 



Valves toothed 



one 



unica conspicue 



granite- 



conspicuously toothed ; 

 ra; foliis radicalibus pan- | radical leaves panduri- 

 dudformibus. Sp pl. ^. | form. 



Root leaves oblong, with a sinus in each side, as in the violin. 

 Stem leaves without the sinus,. 

 An exotic, now common in the enclosures in and around Charleston, 

 Flowers June — July. 



3. VERriClLl,\TUS. 



R. valv ulis int g rriinis, | Valves entire, all baar- 

 omnibus granilcris ; foliis j ing a grain ; leaves Ian 

 lanceolatis ; vaginis tylin- j ceolate ; sheaths c 



diicis. Sp. pi. I. p. ;2.50. I drical. 



Walt. p. 226. Pursh, 1. p. 24a. 



