PECANDRIA UIGYKIA. 



5011 



cous underneath. Floivers in simple, terminal racemes. Calyjt 

 Bmall, appearing to be composed of five leaves cohering together. 

 Petals obovate, white. Filaments dilated at base, unequal, shortec 

 than the corolla. 



This very ornamental plant grows in pine barren swamps and 

 galls, in the southern parts of Georgia. It rarely occurs to the nwth 

 of the Ogeechee river. 



Flowers March. 



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DIG YKLH 



HYDRANGEA. Gen. pl. ym, 



F 



Calyx superus, 5-den- I Calyx superior, 5 tooths 

 tatus. Petala 5. Capsu- j ed. Petals 5. Capsule a 

 la 2-rostris, foramine in- | beaked, opening through 



an aperture between the 



ter cornua dehiscens. 



horns. 



1. Vulgaris. 



H. foliis oblongo-ova 



, basi obtusis. acumina 



Leaves 



oblong 



tis, dentatis, subtus 



bris 



cyrais nudis 



g 



dentate, glabi 



ovat^ 

 base,acuminatej 



under. 



th 



5 



cymes naked 



Pursh, 1. p. 309. Mich. l.p. 26i 

 H arboresceng, Sp.pl. 2. p. 6339 



A shrub, 6 — 8 feet high, with branches and leaves, as in all the 

 gentis, opposite, heaves thin, glabrous, pale on the under surface^ 

 very conspicuously acuminate, serratures large, acute. Flowers v^ 

 terminal cymes, white, generally witliout sterile florets. 



Grows on the mountains of Carolina. 



Flowers May — June. 



2, COBDATA, Pursll. 



H. foliis latoovatis, ba- ! Leaves broad ovate^ 

 sj subcordatis, acumina- I slightly cordate at base, a- 



tiSj grosse dentatis, sub- | cuininate, coaisely tooth 



