ADIANTIIUM. ^3 



Genus vZvir 'P°"^^"*^°"« i» Kentucky.- 



/?«r,v;J^ glandular. See my monofrranl. of 

 Sax^raga genus and tribe, induding N. (ion 



^ax^ra^a by Hooker, altho' as good genera as 

 his Eriogy„a and Leptarhena ^ 



'im^r^ «P-7^i' known to all botanists. 

 ADIKE Raf. 1815, An. Nat. ancient name 



tj^T ^jfr'- ^ '^'^ P«'^""«>- Genus dTs! 

 Zt^TJ^'^''"-^}^ P"'f*^*=' smoothness, and 

 pellucid stem and leaves, bearing in N. Ameri- 

 ca the peculiar names of Richweed, Coolweed, 

 ^nAClearweed, never nettles. Mv name mis- 

 spelt Adesia by t.aton ! I had spelt it Adicea, 

 I now restore the original Greek name of Diosl 

 corides. 



Monoical, Calix similar in both, Spartite, 

 sepals Imear thick obtuse or cylindrical, erect, 

 stamens 3 elongate no nectary. Fertile fl with 

 persistent calix, a sessile capitate st igma. Seed 

 ovate compressed— i/«6i< annual, stem erect 

 thick, leaves opposite petiolate serrate, very 

 smooth, trinerve, flowers estival in axillary and 

 dichotome corymbs. Sometimes a fourth part 

 added; but the Genus does not depend so 

 much on number as the consimilar peculiar ca- 

 lix. 



cth ^°- J""*'"'^ ^af- Vrtica pumila L. stem 

 filiform dwarf, base naked, leaves ovate obtuse, 

 lower entire, upper deeply crenate-serrate with 

 an obtuse point, margin subciliolate, petiols 

 .<;horter than leaves : corymbs pauciflore short. 

 In the Alleghany Mts. and near Philadelphia at 

 Manayunk. Stem 2 to 5 inches, pellucid round 



