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DT^CANDRTA MONOGYNIA. 



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15. Spe 



A f( 



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alibu 



ob 



tusi 



inucronatis, creiia- mil 



Leaves oval, obtuse 



tis, reticulatis 



reti- 



racemis culate ; racemes naker! 



denudalirf, ajfgregatis ; co- j aiijgregate ; 



rollis canipanulatis ; an- 



cam 



tl 

 Mich 



quadi 



pa 

 ed 



1. p. 356. 



Pursh, 1. p. 294. 

 A shrub 3 



^i 



.. , f'^c* ^»g^i> branching, glabrous. Leaves on short pe« 



tioles, crenate or serrate, finely reticulate. Flowers in naked, termi- 

 nal racemes. Corolla white. 



Var. 'a. nitida ; with leaves oblong obovate, serrate, green on each 



surface. ^ 



h. puh-erulenta ; with leaves more round, crenate, and coated, 

 as well as th.- young branches, with a white du.-,t. 



Grows m bogs and bay galls. Common in Georgetown districfj 

 Dr. Macbride. 



Flowers 



16. Mariana. 



^ A. foliis lato-lanceola- [ Leaves broad lanceo* 

 tis, acutis, integerriniis, late, acute, entire, coriace- 

 coriaceis ; ramis floral- ous ; flowering branches 

 ibussubaphyllis; pedicel- nearly naked j pedicels 

 lis aggregatis ; corollis ob- aggregate ; corolla ovate ; 



longo-ovatisjantheiismu- | antliers unawned. 

 ticis. 



Sp.pl. 2. p. 609. Walt. p. 157. Mich. I. p. 256. Pursh, 1. p. 294, 



A small shrub, 2—3 feet high, sparingly branched. Leaves with 

 the margins revolute, frequently if not always sprinkled on the under 

 surface with black dots. Flowers in clusters at and near the summit 

 of the old branches. Peduncles abimt an inch long, one flowered. 

 toroHa white, sometiiaes tinged with red. Filaments hairv at base. 

 tapntde ovate, truncate, with the margins of the valves ribbed ? and 

 Dearly white. 



The corolla is larger in this species than in any of the precedingj 

 and the plant, when handsomely formed, is ornamental. 

 Grows in dry, sandy soils. 



, riovvers May — August, 



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