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No. 1. (Chironia lanceolata, Walt. S. corymbosa, Baldw.) Wet pine bar- 

 rens, from New Jersey southward. 



*- *- Corolla rose-pink, rarely white, with a yellowish or greenish eye: stem erect, 

 \o _3O JiigJi^ pyramidally many-Jlowered : branches opposite: peduncles short. 



3. S. brachiata, Ell. Stem slightly angled, simple below (l-2 high) ; 

 leaves linear and linear-oblong, obtuse, or the upper acute ; branches rather few- 

 flowered, forming an oblong panicle ; calyx -lobes nearly half shorter than the 

 corolla. (S. concinna, Wood, ex char.) Dryish grassy places, Virginia (Indi- 

 ana, Wood), and southward. Corolla rather smaller, and its lobes narrower 

 than in the next. 



4. S. angularis, Pursh. Stem somewhat 4- winged-angled, much branched 

 above (l-2 high), many-flowered; leaves ovate, acutish, 5-nerved, with a 

 somewhat heart-shaped clasping base ; calyx-lobes one third or half the length of 

 the corolla. Dry ground, New York to Illinois and southward. Corolla l' 

 wide ; the lobes obovate. 



--*- Corolla rose-purple or white : stems (5' - 20' high) slender, loosely and often 

 alternately branched, or merely forked, terete or scarcely 4-angled : peduncles elon- 

 gated and I -flowered. 



5. S. calycdsa, Pursh. Diffusely forking, pale ; leaves oblong or lance-ob- 

 long, narrowed at the base ; calyx-lobes foliaceous, spatufate-lanceolate ('-!' long), 

 exceeding the almost white corolla. Marshes, E. Virginia, and southward. 



6. S. Stellaris, Pursh. Loosely branched and forking ; leaves oblong- or 

 ovate-lanceolate, or the upper linear; calyx-lobes awl-shaped-linear, varying from 

 half to nearly the length of the bright rose-purple corolla. Salt marshes, Massachu- 

 setts to Virginia, and southward. Too near the next. 



7. S. gracilis, Salisb. Stem very slender, at length diffusely branched; 

 the branches and long peduncles filiform ; leaves linear, or the lower lance-linear, 

 the uppermost similar to the setaceous calyx-lobes, which equal the rose-purple 

 corolla. (Chironia campanulata, L.) Brackish marshes, Nantucket (Oakes), 

 banks of lower Delaware "River (Mr. Cooley,Mr. Diffenbaugh), and southward. 



* * Corolla 9-12-parted, large (about 2' broad). (Lapithea, Grisebach.) 



8. S. chloroides, Pursh. Stem (l-2 high), loosely panicled above; 

 the peduncles, slender, 1 -flowered ; leaves oblong-lanceolate ; calyx-lobes linear, 

 half the length of the deep rose-colored (rarely white) corolla. Borders of 

 brackish ponds, Plymouth, Massachusetts, to Virginia, and southward. One 

 of our handsomest plants. 



2. EBYTHKJEA, Pers. CENTAURT. 



Calyx 4- 5-parted, the divisions slender. Corolla funnel-form or salver-form, 

 with a slender tube and a 4 - 5-parted limb. Anthers exserted, erect, twisting 

 spirally. Style slender, single : stigma capitate or 2-lipped. Low and small 

 branching annuals, chiefly with rose-purple or reddish flowers (whence the name, 

 from eputfpoff, red) ; in summer. All our Northern species were probably intro- 

 duced, and occur in few localities. 



1. E. CENT AtRiUM, Pers. (CENTAURY.) Stem upright, corymbosely branched 

 above ; leaves oblong or elliptical, acutish ; the uppermost linear ; cymes clus- 

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