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2. D. tdres, Walt. Hairy or minutely ])uhcscent annual ; stem spreading 

 3 '- 9' long), nearly terete ; leaves iinear-Ianei.olatc, elosely sessiile, ri<,nd ; Howers 

 1-3 in each axil; corolla Juiinel-form (2"-3" lony, whitish), witii short'lobes, 

 not exeeeiling the long bristles of the stipules; sti/lc tnKlividal ; fruit obovate- 

 turbinate, nut furroiad, erownetl witii 4 short ealyx-teeth. — bandy liclds, from 

 New Jersey and Illinois southward. 



4. CEPHALANTHUS, L. BLXTOx-nrsii. 



Calyx-tube inversely pyramidal, the limb 4-toothed. Corolla tubular, 4- 

 toothed ; the teeth imbrieated in the bud. Style thread-form, much protruded. 

 Stiy:ma capitate. Fruit dry and hard, small, inversely pyramidal, 2-4-celled, 

 at length splitting from the base upward into 2 - 4-closed 1-seeded j)ortions. — 

 Shrubs, with the flowers densely aggregated in spherical pedunded heails. Flow- 

 ers white. (Xame composed ol' K((f}a\T], a lund, and livdos, d Jlouxr.) 



1. C. OCCident^lis, L. Smooth or ])ul)esccnt; leaves ijctiokd, ovate or 

 lanceolate-oblong, pointed, opposite or whorled in threes, with short intervening 

 stipules. — Wet places : common. July, Aug. 



5. MITCHELLA, L. Paktuidg^-berry. 



Flowers in pairs, with their ovaries united. Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla fun- 

 nel-form, 4-lobed ; the lobes spreading, densely bearded inside, valvate in the 

 bud. Stamens 4. Style I : stigmas 4, linear. Fruit a berry-like double drupe, 

 crowned with the calyx-teeth of the two tiowers, eueh with 4 small and seed-like 

 bony nutlets. — A smooth and trailing small evergreen herb, with round-ovate 

 and siiining petioied leaves, minute stipules, wiiite fragrant flowers often tinged 

 with |mr])le, and scarlet edible (but nearly tasteless) dry berries, which remain 

 overwinter. Flowers occasionally 3 - G-raerons, always dimorphous ; all those 

 of some individuals having exserted stamens and included stigmas; of others, 

 included stamens and exserted style. (This very jiretty plant commemorates 

 Dr. John Mitch' II, an early correspondent of Linnieus, and an excellent botanist, 

 who roidcd in Virginia.) 



1. M. l'6pens, L. — Dry wooils, creeping about the font of trees : common. 

 June, July. — Leaves often variegated with whitish lines. Karely the two flow- 

 ers arc completely confluent into one, with a 10-lobed corolla. 



6. OLDENLANDIA, Plumier, L. Oi-dicnlamiiv. 



Calyx 4- (rarely 5-) lohcd, persistent. Corolla short, in our species wheel- 

 shaped ; the limb 4- (rarely .")-) parted, v.ilvatc in the bud. Stamens 4 (rarely 

 5): anthers short. Style 1 or none: stigmas 2. Foil thin, 2-celled, many- 

 8ce<led, opening loculicidally across the summit. Seeds concave, very numer- 

 ous, minute and angidar. — Low herbs, with small sti[iules united to the peti- 

 oles. (Dedicated, in I70.T, to the memory of O'ihnhnul, a German jihysiciaii 

 and botanist, wiio died varly at the ('iii>e of (Jood IIo]r'.) 



1 O. glomer^ta, Michx An iiuonspienous, pubescent or smoothish, 

 brauehed and spreading annual (2'- 12' high) ; leaves oblong ; flowers in sessile 



