44d OCTANDRIA MONOGYNlA* 



latis ; friicfibus oblongo- 1 fruit oblong, 4 angled, 

 tetragoriis, utrinque acu- | acute at each end 

 tis. Mich. 1. p. 346. 



Pursh, 1. p. 260. 



Gaura biennis, Walt p. 128. 



Perennial. Stem herbaceous, abotit 3 feet high, terete, pubescent. 



f^aves sessile, alternate, a little hairy. Flowers in a terminal pani» 



cle composed of slender racemes. Calyx 4 cleft, deciduous, the seg- 



^eots linear, reflected, much longer than the tube. Petals inserted 



into the tube of the calyx near the summit, spathulate, ob'.use, white, 



half as Iirag as the segments of the r.aljx. Filaments inserted inta 



the tube of the calyx. Mthers oblong, 2 celled. Germ angled, ob* 



long, pubescent, istule as lon» aa the »tamenB. Stis-ma capitate, 

 jllightly 2 lobed. , "^ « ^ 



Grows in very dry, sandy soilg, 

 flowers July— August. 



G. foliis lanceolatis, I Leaves lanceolate 



dentatis; spica conferta ; | dentate; spike crowded j 



t 



fruit nearly round, sli{^ht- 

 ly 4 aftgled, pubescent, 



fiuctibus suhrotundo.4- 

 gonis, pubepcentibus. 

 Pursh, I. p. j>6o. 



Sp. pi. 2. p. Sll. Mich. 1. p. 22ff. 



«fm herbaceous, branching. Leaves lanceoiate, pubescent, itre^ 

 galarty and slij^htly #leiitate, sometimes entire. Flowers mor? 

 «r«wd«d m the terminal spikes, and much larger than in the preced- 

 ing r*pecies. h'tuit acute at eacli end. 



Grows in fertile, stony soils, in the upper districts of Curolina 

 jina vreorgia. ^rr- 



flowers July— August. 



OXYCOCCUS. Persoon. 



Calyx ^M\x^. CoroD Cah/x-i cleft Corolla 

 U 4-partita, laiiniis sub- 4 parted, with the seg- 

 iinearibus, revolutis. Fi. \ ments somewhat linear, 

 lamefifa conniventia. Jin. | revolute. Fihimmts con- 

 t^er^ tubulos^, bipartite, mving. Mthers tubular, 



mcca polysperma. | g parted. Btwu many 



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