216 iM ADDER FAMILY. 



O. glomeiata, Michx. Taller, erect, or beooiniiic; diffuse, somewhat 

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

 lobes ovate or obloui;- and leafy, longer than the capsule. N. Y., kS. and 



w. (D 



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

 for Chas. C. Pincknetj.) 



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. (iuvdni of 

 S. Car., who corresponded with Linnaeus.) 



G. jasminoldes, 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. Douvard, director of the Paris Garden 

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

 species, the following from Mexico, best known : 



B. triphyl/a, Salisb. Shrubby or half-shrubby, blossoming through the 

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

 smoothish, in o's or the upper in pairs ; corolla scarlet, miiuitely downy 

 outside, nearly 1' long. 



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

 snu)Oth, deep-scarlet corolla. 



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

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



D. Virgini^na, Linn. Stems spreading, l°-2° lonz : leaves broadly 

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

 oblong, crowned with 2 calyx teeth. N. J., S. Itl 



D. t^res, Walt. Sandy fields from N. J. and 111., S. ; with slender 

 stems o'-D' 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. ® 



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

 eral species far S. 



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

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

 axillary. Ohio, S. and W. 11 



8. MITCHELLA, PAKTKID(JE BERRY, SQl'AWIiEKRY. (Named 

 for Dr. J. Mitchell, an early botanist of Va.) 11 



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

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

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

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

 and S. 



