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IIEXANDRIA TRIG^NIA. 



1. ViRGINICUar. 



M. paniciila pyrami 



floi 



Panicle pvianiidal ; |)e 

 tals oval, somewluu has 

 tate, flat ; flowers gen 



ally fei 



la; petalis oval 

 hastatis, planis; 

 pi e r J I ra qil e f e i 

 Piirshj 1. p. §4f 



- Sp. pi. 2. p. 266. Mich. 1. p. 251. 



Stem 2—3 feel high, terete, clothed \v\th a dense and short puhes- 

 cence, leafy. Leaves long, linear lanceolate, flat, enibracing- the stem, 

 but not sheathing. Flowers In a terminal panicle, crowded on the 

 branches, polygamous, dioicons. Petals greenish white, becoming 

 brown with age, bearing 2 glands near the base. '^ - -^ 



Styles 5, somewhat divaricate, persistent. 



Germs 3, superior 



Grows in Carolina ; verj^ rare in the low country. 

 Flowers June — July. 



2, MON 



M 



pai 



Walt, 

 in feme 



mascula, superne 



mi 



nea 



J 



mosa 



b 



petalis 



> 



Panicle with tlie lower 

 flowers sterile, the upper 

 fertile, and in racemes ; 

 petals oblong, flat, v/ith 

 short claws ; styles half 

 the length of the geiin. 



duplo brevioribus. Pursl), 



l.p 241. 



Walt. p. 125. 



Flowers smaller than in the preceding species. Pursh. 



Grows in the rapuntains of Virginia and Carolina. 

 Flowers July. 



3. HlBRIDUM 



Wal t. 



M.paniculapubescente, 

 racemosa; petalis orbicu- 



latis, plicatis, longe 



un- 



guh u citis ; alandulis eg- 



alitis. 



E. 



Panicle pubescent, ra*^ 



ceniose ; 



; ja^rai 

 unit^' 



tals orbicular, 



K claws ,* 



"Walt. p. 125. Pursh, 1, p. 24 U 



S^elaBthium racemasum, Mic!u 2. p. 251. 



Stem 2 feet high, terete, slightly striate, leafj, 

 linear, Lcarly prlatrois, embracing tlic stem, the 

 distinct " ' ~- ■ - ^ . 



Leaves long, 

 midrib ratiter 



Fankk Ivn^-j composed of simple racemes, lloivers some- 



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