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ate, leaves smooth, pinnate palmate triparted, 

 medial lobe large petiolate 3-51obed, lobes 

 oblong acute, laciniate dentate, stipules oblong 

 serrate, panicle lax naked in Tennessee and 

 West Kentucky, 2 or 3 feet high, flowers pur- 

 ple, probably blended with the last, chiefly dis- 

 tinct by lobes and panicle, 



296. THEC. ANGUSTIFOLIA Raf. stem striate 

 flexuose, leaves palmate rugose, reticulate be- 

 neath, 5 to 7lobes lanceolate acuminate une- 

 qually serrate, stipules foiiose laciniate, panicle 

 lax. Mts. of North Carolina and Georgia, 

 very distinct by narrow lobes, flowers purplish. 



297. THEC. DISCOLOR Raf. Spirea do P. &c, 

 stem angular sulcate, leaves subtrifoliate, lobes 

 ovate acuminate unequally serrate, white to- 

 mentose beneath, middle foliole cordate triiid, 

 some small pinnules interjected ovate sessile, 

 stipules small, panicle interrupted coarctate 

 Apalachian mts. a beautiful sp. 1 or 2 feet high, 

 flowers white. 



298. BUCHNERA LEVICAULIS Raf. stem vir- 

 gate fistular quite smooth, above naked angular, 

 leaves remote narrow lanceolate entire acute 

 rough, spike short flowers alternate Florida, 

 a very distinct sp. stem 2 feet high very slender 

 and smooth, leaves small uncial opposite sessile, 

 spike uncial, flowers few small sessile alternate, 

 bracts ovate acute half length of corolla. This 

 with 266 and 267, increase to 4 our N. Amer. 

 sp. they have probably all been blended in JS. 

 americana which is quite distinct by roughness 

 and opposite flowers &c. They are all estival, 

 growing in glades out of woods, and dry black 

 in herbarium. 



299. ECLIPTA of L. a good Monograph 

 of this Genus is much wanted, I shall attempt 



