252 DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



2. BATSCHIA. Gmd. 



Calyx 5-parted. Carol salver-form, rather large ; tube 

 straight,- much longer than the calyx, closed at the base by a 

 bearded ring ; orifice naked or partially closed ; border orbi- 

 culate, nearly flat, segments rounded. Nuts shining. Flow- 

 ers yellow. Pentandria. Monogynia. 



1. B. canescens Mick. : stem erect, simple, villous ; leaves oblong, 

 obtuse, slightly mucronate, silky above, subvillous beneath ; flowers 

 axillary, crowded near the top of the stem ; tube of the corol as long 

 again as the calyx. Anchusa canesccns Mufti. Litfiospcnnum canescens 

 Lehm. Tbrr. 



HAB. .Hills. N. Y. to Virg. N. to Subarc. Amer. W. to Miss. 

 June, July. L. Stem 8 12 inches high. Flowers axillary, 

 crowded near the top of the stem, bright orange. Found near 

 Fairfield, N. Y. by Prof. Hadley. Used by the Indians as a red 

 dye. Puccoon. 



2. B. gmelini Mich. : plant hirsute ; stem simple ; floral leaves 

 ovate ; those of the stem oblong ; flowers in a terminal raceme ; calyx 

 with long lanceolate segments. Batschia carolinlensis Gmel. Jlnchusa 

 hirta Muhl. 



HAB. Woods. Penn. to Car. June, July. It- Stem 812 

 inches high. Flowers in a terminal raceme, orange. 



3. ONOSMODIUM. Mich. 



Calyx deeply 5-parted ; segments linear. Corol somewhat 

 tubular-campanulate ; border ventricose, half 5-cleft ; segments 

 connivent, acute. Anthers sessile, included. Style much 

 exserted. Nuts imperforate, shining. 



Pentandria. Monogynia. 



1. O. hispidum Mich. : stem hispid, branched ; leaves obovate-lan- 

 ceolate, hairy, papillose-punctate ; segments of the corol subulate. 

 Litfiospermum virginianum Linn. Purshia hispida Lehm. 



HAB. Hills. N. Y. to Car. Aug. U.Stem 12 feet high. 

 Flowers white, in simple leafy secund racemes which at first are 

 recurved and afterwards straight. 



2. O. moll* Mich. : whole plant white-villous ; leaves oblong-oval, 

 somewhat 3-nerved; segments of the corol semi-oval. Lithospermum 

 molle MuhL Purshia moUis Lehm. 



HAB. N. Y. and Penn. S. W. to Tenn. July, Aug. If. Dif- 

 fers from the former in its soft white pubescence, and in the 

 broader segments of its corol. It has been found by Mr. George 

 W. Clinton, in the sand plains near Albany. 



4. SYMPHYTUM. Linn. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corol ventricose, its orifice closed with 

 connivent subulate scales. Nuts imperforate at base. 



Pentandria. Monogynia. 



