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nerve reticulate, petiols and nerves hirsute, pan- 

 icle formed by corymbs of short secund race- 

 mes — handsome plant 1 or 2 feet high, not 

 smooth as said Nuttal, but quite viscid by pedi- 

 celate glands appearing rough when dry, leaves 

 like Napellus, base truncate becoming acute in 

 upper leaves less divided subsessile : flowers 

 white on pedicels shorter than calix unilateral, 

 it grows in the Unaka Mts. or Iron Mts. of 

 North CaroHna, a region full of new plants as 

 yet. The habit when out of bloom is so like 

 Aconitum napellus that it may be the doubtful 

 plant of that name said to grow there likewise. 

 Probably early vernal. 



90L TRIODANIS Raf, Campanulaceanew 

 G. or subgenus diff. from Legousia by calix 

 with 3 unequal teeth, capsule with 3 unequal 

 cells. — This is apparently a very material dis- 

 tinction ; but in one or perhaps more sp. the 

 corolla is besides lacking ! or very minute with 

 5 short sessile anthers, and some deem it a va- 

 riation ! it is indeed a strange one amounting to 

 a Generic character I and thus being perhaps 

 a peloric Genus, a spontaneous late Generic for- 

 mation ! the name means 3 unequal teeth, 



905. Triodanis scabra Raf. erect rough 

 humble, leaves sessile oblong acute subentire, 

 upper linear ; capsules axillary solitary terete 

 curved crowned by 3 subulate teeth — annual, 2 

 to 4 inches high, seldom with one or two 

 branches, lower leaves broader subcrenate. 

 Found by me 1823 in the glades near the mouth 

 of the Tennessee R, and by Nuttal at Cedar 

 prairies in Arkanzas ; but out of 7 specimens 

 not one is in bloom, all are in seeds, probably 

 very early vernal. 



906. Triodanis rupestris R. procumbent 



