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margin and nerves pubescent ; flowering branches elongated ; fruit 

 with hooked bristles. G. bermudianum Pursh not of Linn. ? 



HAB. In wet places. Penn. to Car. June. If. Stem erect, 

 nearly smooth. Floicers purple. 



11. G. pilosum Ait. : stem nearly simple, elongated, ascending, 

 with remote joints, hispid ; leaves in fours, oval, mucronate, very hairy 

 on every part, nerveless ; flowering branches elongated, nearly simple, 

 3-flowered at the extremity ; fruit hairy. G. puncticidosumva,T. pttosum 

 De Cand. 



HAB. Woods. N. Y. to Car. July, Aug. 2{.Stem a foot 

 high, rough. Flowers purple. Probably not distinct from the 

 preceding. 



12. G. circcBzans Mich. : stem erect, smooth or slightly pubescent 

 on the angles ; leaves in fours, oval, obtuse, smooth ; margin and 

 nerves ciliate ; peduncles short, divaricate, few- flowered ; flowers re- 

 mote, subsessile, alternate ; fruit nodding, with hooked bristles. G. 

 boreale Walt.G. brackiatum Muhl. 



HAB. Rocky woods, N. Y. to Car. June, July. H. Stem 

 about a foot high. Flowers purple. 



13. G. lanceolatum Torr.: stem erect, very smooth, with remote 

 joints ; leaves in fours, lanceolate, generally acute, smooth, 3-nerved, 

 margin subciliate ; peduncles long, divaricate ; fruit sessile, nodding, 

 covered with hooked bristles. G. torreyi Big. 



HAB. Rocky woods. N. S. July. !. Stem 1218 inches 

 high. Flowers purple. De Candolle considers this a variety of 

 the former. 



14. G. septentrionale .R, # & stem erect, branched above, very 

 smooth ; leaves in fours, linear-acute or linear-lanceolate, 3-nerved^ 

 smooth, margin involute and scabrous ; flowers in a divaricate termi- 

 nal panicle ; fruit with minute hooked hairs. G. boreale Pursk. Torr. 

 G. strictum Eat. 



HAB. Sandy woods. N. S. Aug. If.. Stem 1 1-22 feet 

 high. Floicers white, in a. terminal crowded panicle. 



ORDER LXV. VALERIANE^E. De Cand. Land. 



Calyx with a limb of various kinds, either membranous or 

 resembling pappus. CoroHnserted into the top of the ovary, 

 3 5-lobed, regular or irregular, sometimes calcarate at the 

 base. Stamens 1 5, inserted into the tube of the corol and 

 alternate with its lobes. Ovary inferior, 1 3-celled ; ovule 

 solitary, pendulous ; style filiform ; stigmas 1 3. Fruit 

 dry, indehiscent, with 1 fertile cell and 2 empty ones. Seed 

 solitary, pendulous ; embryo straight, destitute of albumen ; 

 radicle superior. 



Herbs. Leaves opposite, without stipules. 



