(i8 NEOBOT. 



diffuse smooth, leaves sessile renilbrm suben- 

 tire, capsules axillary solitary oblong, crowned 

 by ovatoblong teeth. — Annual also, discovered 

 in 1818 on rocks ne^ir Baltimore out of bloom 

 as early as May, and also in the Alleghany 

 Mts. Tliis was deemed by Torrey a peculiar 

 state of Legousia nmplexicaulls, although that 

 plant is erect rough, with diderent leaves and 

 flowers. I consider them as great anomalies 

 and curious pelorian Genus, as my Lobomon, 

 Myctanthes &.c. 



907. Fedia iiiiMioDEs Raf. dichotome, leaves 

 obtuse, sessile ciliolate dentate at the base, 

 lower spatulate, upper elliptic, flowers glome- 

 rate sessile — in Arkanzas, anonymous in Coll. 

 herb, semipedal, leaves i or 2 inches long, with 

 2 or 3 large teeth on both sides at the base, but 

 sometimes lacking, flowers terminal in small 

 glomerules. 



908. Fedia ligulata Ilaf. dichotome above, 

 leaves obtuse smooth entire^ lower obovate or 

 cuneate, upper ligulate, flowers glomerate, co- 

 rollas with slender tube — another pretty sp. 

 from Arkanzas and Louisiana, hardly pedal, 

 leaves short uncial not ciliolate ; flowers white 

 pretty, appearing pedicellated by the long tubes 

 of corollas. 



909. Fedia ciliolata R. only once forked, 

 leaves ciliolate, lower petiolate round or obo- 

 vate, medial cuneate obtuse, upper oblong or 

 lanceolate acute, base sometimes denticulatei, 

 flowers in bifid or twin glomerules, corolla short 

 — in Kentucky and Illinois, 4 to 10 inches high, 

 leaves small, longest uncial. It has several va- 

 rieties or incipient Sp. 1 Termfolia^ semipedal 

 leaves ternate, stem twice trifid, subtriflore — 2, 

 Acuta, all the leaves acute entire, upper linear 



