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7. SPERMAC'OCE. Flowers sessile, in axillary wlioi-ls or clusters. Fruit small and dry, 



•2-celled, one or both of the carpels opening (1 carpel, in falling:, usually carrying the 

 partition with it, leavini? the other open). Caly.\ teeth 4. 



8. MITCIIELLA. Flowers in pairs at the end of branches, the two ovaries united into 



one, which in fruit forms a "i-eyed scarlet berry. Corolla densely white-bearded 

 inside, white or purplish-tinged outside. Style 1 ; stigmas 4, slender. Seeds, or 

 rather little stones, 4 to each of the two flowers. Stipules small, not fringed. 

 -h -^ Shrubs or small trees ; lobes of the corolla overlapping in the bud. 



9. CKPUALANTHUS. Flowers many and small, crowded i:i a close, round head, raised 



on a peduncle. Caly.v 4-toothed. Corolla tubular with 4 very short lobes. Stamens 

 4. Style long and much protruded, tipped with a capitate stigma. Fruit small, dry 

 and hard, inversely pyramidal, at length splitting into 2 or 4 closed, 1-seeded por- 

 tions. * « .» Leaves whorled, without stipules; ovules solitary. 

 10. GALIU.M. Flowers small or minute, mostly in clusters, with a wheel-shaped, 4-parted 

 (or sometimes 8-parted) corolla, and as many short stamens. Ovary '2-celled, form- 

 ing a small and twin, fleshy or berry-like, or else dry and sometimes bur-like, 

 2-seeded fruit. Styles 2. Calyx above the ovary obsolete. Slender herbs, with 

 square stems, their angles and the edges of the leaves often rough or almost prickly. 



1. HOUSTONIA. {Dr. Wm. Iluuston, an English physician, who 

 botanized on the coast of Mexico, where he died early.) 



* Delicate little plants., with l-flowercd peduncles, flnioerimj from early 

 sprinr/ to summer; corolla snlver-form ; pod someiohat 2-lobed, itt^ vppcr 

 half free; seeds with a deep hole occupy iwj the face. 



H. caertilea, Linn. Common H. or Bluets. Moist banks and grassy 

 places ; 'i'-b' liigh, smooth and slender, erect, with oblong or spatulate 

 leaves only 3" or 4" long, very slender peduncle, and light blue, purplish, 

 or almost white and yellowish-eyed corolla, its tube much longer than 

 tlie lobes. @ 



H. minima, Beck. Roughisli, l'-4' high, at length much branched 

 and spreading ; leaves ovate, spatulate, or the upper linear ; earlier pedun- 

 cles slender, the rest short, and tube of the inuiilish corolla not longer 

 than its lobes and those of the calyx. Dry hills frnm Mo., 8. W. (2) 



H. rotundif6lia. Michx. Prostrate and rnepim; Imfy stems ; pedun- 

 cles slKuler than tlie roundish leaves and recurved in fruit; corolla 

 white. Sandy .soil fnun N. Car., S. 11 



* * Erect leafy-stemmed, 5'-20' high, with flowers in terminal clusters or 

 cymes, in summer ; carolla funnel- form ; seeds rather saucer-shaped. 11 



H. purpilrea, Linn. Wooded or rocky banks, commoner W.'; smooth 

 or siiuhily dnwny, with ovate or lanceolate 3-5-ribbed leaves ; i)ale-purple 

 flowers, and upper lialf of globular pod free from the calyx. Variable. 



Var. ciliolita, Gray. 3' high, with thick small stem leaves, and oval 

 or oblong ciliate radical leaves. \V. 



Var. longif6lia, Gray. The common one N. ; slender or low, with 1- 

 ribbed leaves, tho.se of the stem varying from lance-oblong to linear. 



H. angustifdlia, Michx. Stems tufted erect ; narrow-linear and acute 

 l-ri!il)ed leaves ; crowded .short-pedieeled flowers with lobes of the white 

 corolla densely bearded inside, and only the top of the obovate pod rising 

 above the calyx. Dry banks from 111. ,8. and \V. 



2. OLDENLANDIA. {IT. B. hie nl and was a German botanist who 



di(;d at the (;a[)e of Good Hope.) 



O. Bdacii, Chapm. 3' or 4' high, diffuse, glabrous; leaves linear; 

 flowers few or solitary ; calyx teeth broadly subulate, mostly shorter than 

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