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Calyx-lobes ending in a long bristlet. 



Leaves generally almost triangulate- or quadrangulate- 

 linear ; flowers crowded between leaves at and towards 

 the summit of the branchlets ; bracteoles almost discon- 

 nected ; tube of the calyx rather long, turgid up to the 

 summit ; lobes overlapping ; petals whitish or somewhat 

 reddish or sometimes slightly yellowish. 



C. tetragona. 



SALICARIEAE. 

 X.1TTHRUBX. 



1162. Tall, flowers large. 



Perennial, here usually much beset with hairlets ; leaves 

 large, opposite or ternately or quaternately whorled, from 

 a somewhat clasping base elongate -lanceolar ; flowers 

 cymosely whorled, forming leafy spikes ; petals six, 

 purplish-red when fresh ; stamens generally twelve, 

 alternately longer and shorter, but as well as the style 

 variable in length. L. Salicaria. 



Dwarf, flowers small. 



Annual or of short duration, usually glabrous ; leaves 

 small, the upper scattered, from broad-linear to oval- 

 elliptical; flowers small, axillary, mostly solitary; stamens 

 six or less. L. Kyssopifolia. 



ATCBXANNXA. 



1163. Flowers in small cymes. 



Humble, glabrous, annual ; leaves small, opposite, from 

 linear- to oval -elliptical, dilated and clasping at the base ; 

 flowers very small ; petals four, minute ; stamens usually 

 four ; fruit globular, extremely small. A. multiflora. 



ONAGREAE. 



BPILOBIUM. 



1164. Stamens and style shorter than the petals ; stigma 



club-shaped. 



Erect or ascending herb, often beset with hairlets ; leaves 

 opposite or scattered, mostly from oval- to linear-elliptical 

 and somewhat denticulated; flowers axillary and terminal, 

 solitary ; lobes of the calyx connate towards their base ; 

 petals bilobed, pink or pale ; stamens almost straight ; 

 fruit filiform-cylindrical ; tuft of hairlets several times 

 longer than the seeds. 



(E. tetragonum, partly.) E. glabellum. 



