152 DICOTYL.— COROLLIFLORAE 



Endl Gen. Pl. pag. 693. n. 4011.— Lam. III. 6. t. 518. 

 Gaertn. De Fruct. et Semin. 1. pag. 257. tah. 54. — Bert. 

 Fl. It. 6.x>ag. 286. — Guss. Si/n. lU. Sic. 2. pag. 115. — 

 Moris Fl. Sarct. 3. pag. 236. — Torn. FI. Sic. pag. 429.— 

 SmitK Engl. Fl. 3. pag. 121. — Parl. Fl. Ital cont. cla T. 

 Caruel vol. 6. pag. 468. 



I. E. linifolla. — Flores parvi, solitarii, axillares, racemosi, 

 racerais terminalibns canli et ramis, solitariis, simplicibus, 

 densiuscnlis, secnndifloris, foliatis vel bracteat.is; pediceJIi bre- 

 ves, villosi, villis albis; bracteae ciliolatae, glabrae, patentes, 

 obtusae; calg:r, in flore turbinato-tubulosus, in tVuctu turbi- 

 nato - campannlatns, bilinearis et ultra longus, quatrinervis, 

 nervis viridibus, inter nervos pallescens et fere membrana- 

 cens, basi glabriusculus, superne pilosus, subinde totus gla- 

 ber, bilabiatus, labiis bidentatis, dentibus triangulis vel trian- 

 gulo-lanceolatis, acutiusculis, pilosis, ciliolatis; corolla calyce 

 duplo longior, lutea, externe pilosula, galea erecta, fornicata, 

 emarginata, ciliata, labio inferiore galeae subaequali vel panlo 

 breviore, patente, trifido, laciniis longitudine aeqtialibus, ob- 

 longo-obovatis, obtusis, integris, ciliatis, media saepe angu- 

 stiore; stamina didynama sed parura inaequalia, corollam ex- 

 cedentia, extra galeam erecto-divergentia, filaraentis subula- 

 tis, luteis, inferue pilosis, apice iucurvis, antheris cernuis, 

 bilocularibus, croceis, loculis oblongis, deorsum spinulosis; 

 ovarium generis; stylus filiformis, longitudine et colore sta- 

 minum, inferne pilosns, primo erectus, postea declinatus; sti- 

 gma capitellatum, subemarginatum; capsula calyce paulo lon- 

 gior vel subaequalis, obovata, compresso-tumidula, emargi- 

 nata, superne hirsuta, pilis erectis, subinde tantura pilosa, 

 saepius rubescens; seniina duo in quovis loculo, oblonga, gla- 

 bra, longitudinaliter snlcata, matura nigrescentia; caulis e- 

 rectus, obtuse tetragonus, spithama!i-se.squipedalis, ramosus, 

 puberulus, saepe purpurascens; folia opposita, inferiora lon- 

 giora, lanceolato-linearia, acuminata, remote serrata, cito dif- 

 flua, superiora linearia, obtusa, integra, niargine revolut.c, 

 omnia laete viridia, dense breviterque pilosula praecipue in 

 nervo et marginibus, sed numquam viscosa; radix gracilis, 

 flexuosa, fusiformi-ramosula, fusca, Planta sicccando nigre- 

 scens. 



Floret Septembri, Octobri. 0. 



