216 MADDER FAMILY. 



O. glomeralta, Michx. Taller, erect, or becoming diffuse, somewhat 

 pubescent ; leaves ovate or oblong ; flowers generally in clusters ; calyx 

 lobes ovate or oblong and leafy, longer than the capsule. N. Y., S. and 

 W. ® 



3. PINCKNEYA, GEORGIA BARK or FEVER TREE. (Named 

 for Chas. C. Pitickney.) 



P. ptibens, Michx. The only species ; a rather downy small tree or 

 shrub, in wet pine barrens, S. Car. to Ga., with large oval leaves, slender 

 stipules, and purplish flowers of little beauty, but the great calyx leaf 

 commonly produced is striking. 



4. GARDENIA. CAPE JESSAMINE. (Named for Dr. Garden of 

 S. Car., who corresponded with Linnaeus.) 



G. jasminotdes, Ellis. (G. Florida). A house plant from China and 

 Japan ; 2^-4° high ; leaves smooth and bright-green, oblong acute at both 

 ends ; large and showy, very fragrant flowers ; the white corolla 5-9-lobed, 

 or full double ; berry large, oblong, orange-colored, 5-6-angled and taper- 

 ing at the base. 



5. BOUVARDIA. (Dr. Chas. Bouvard, director of the Paris Garden 

 of Plants over a century ago.) Favorite conservatory plants of several 

 species, the following from Mexico, best known : 



B. iriphylla, Salisb. Shrubby or lialf-shrubby, blossoming through the 

 winter, and in gTounds in summer ; with leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, 

 smoothish, in 3's or the upper in pairs ; corolla .scarlet, minutely downy 

 outside, nearly 1' long. 



B. leidntha, Benth. Winter-blooming, has more downy leaves and 

 smooth, deep-scarlet corolla, 



6. DIODIA, BUTTONWEED. (Greek : a thoroughfare, being humble 

 weeds, often growing by the wayside.) Flowers white or whitish. 



D. Virgini^a, Linn. Stems spreading, l°-2° long ; leaves broadly 

 lanceolate, sessile; corolla salver-shaped, ^' long; style 2 -parted ; fruit 

 oblong, crow^ned with 2 calyx teeth. N. J., S. 2/ 



D. tferes, Walt. Sandy fields from N. J. and 111., S. ; with slender 

 stems 3'-9' long ; linear and rigid leaves ; small corolla rather shorter 

 than the long bristles of the stipules, undivided style, and obovate little 

 fruit crowned with the 4 short calyx teeth, (i) 



7. SPERMACbCE. (Greek, referring to the pointed carpels.) Sev- 

 eral species far S. 



S. glabra, Michx. Glabrous ; stems spreading a foot or two ; leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate ; heads of small whitish flowers many-flowered and 

 axillary. Ohio, S. and W. 21 



8. MITCHELLA, PARTRIDGE BERRY, SQUAWBERRY. (Named 

 for Dr. J. Mitchell, an early botanist of Va.) H 



M. ripens, Linn. A little herb, creeping over the ground, with tli? 

 small, evergreen leaves round-ovate, very smooth and glossy, brighi 

 green, sometimes with whitish lines, short-petioied ; flowers pretty and 

 sweet-.scented ; fruit scarlet, remaining over winter, edible. Woods, -N. 

 and S. 



