176 Botany of Illinois and Missouri. 
Philo 
4—6 inches high, erect, branching, minutely pa 
beseent. Leaves about an inch in length, ovate-lanceo~ 
late, or Jance-linear, somewhat clasping at base, opposite 
and alternate ; margins revolute, and with the midrib ciliate. 
Corymb few-flowered. Segments of the calyx linear, acute, 
hairy, more than half the length of the tube of the corol. 
Corol purple; tube nearly straight; segments wedge-form, 
deeply cleft, sometimes nearly to the base. Style as long as 
be corol. | 
-Has. On the banks of the Hlinois near Fort Clark. 
April. A large flowered species, which can be easily distin- 
guished by the characters above given, and particularly by 
the deeply cleft segments of the corol. 
Polemonium reptans 
Has. On the low alluvions of the Hlinois and Missis- 
sippi. April. 
Solanum carolinense Li 
This ansigity plant is well described = Dr. Torrey, in 
his Flora. The star-like pubescence i is very characteristics 
Mr. Elhott remarks that the corol is obscure, but in those 
specimens which I have seen, it was large and quite showy- 
Pas . sides and beaten grounds near St. Louis- 
Physalis pubescens Lin? 
_ Whole plant white pubescent. Leaves fleshy, somewhat 
— Calyx pubescent in every part, nearly the 
of the corol. 
Has. On the rocky banks of the } — May. 
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, n merous every where in Ihe ~ 
Campanula perfoliata Li 
Has. Alluvions of the Riviere des a May. 
perfoliatum Lin. 
rather rare. May. 
Triosteum 
ena Woods near St. Louis— 
