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fruit the calyx shuts up and bends backward into close contact 

 with the peduncle. — Chelsea beach Island. — July. — Perennial. 



ANGIOSPER3IIA . 



271. LINN^A. 



LlNN^A BOREALIS. LtnTKBO. 



Stem prostrate ; flowering branches erect, two flow- 

 ered ; leaves roundish, crenate. 



Stem creeping, woody with a brownish, pubescent bark, giv- 

 ing off roots and branches at regular intervals. Leaves opposite, 

 petioled, hairy with a glabrous appearance, suborbicular, acute 

 at base, with about five obtuse teeth. Peduncles filiform, cov- 

 ered with very minute, glandular hairs, two flowered. Bractes 

 two, linear, opposite. Flowers very fragrant, drooping, with 

 two calyxes, one inferior, four leaved, two of the leaves minute; 

 the other superior, five parted. Corolla campanulate, five cleft, 

 red, tinged with white, the inside red and hairy. Stamens 

 shorter than the corolla. Style declined. 



This interesting and delicate plant is common to the northern 

 parts of both hemispheres. — Woods, Lynn. — Often met with in 

 New Hampshire and Vermont. — June. 



272. MELAMPYRUM. 



Melampyrum Americanuji. 3Iich. Cow-Wheat. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, the uppermost with a few 

 setaceous teeth at base ; flowers axillary. 



Pretty common in woods. Stem erect, branching, less than 

 a foot in height. Leaves opposite, lanceolate or ovate, smooth, 

 entire, with a long obtuse point, the upper ones furnished with 

 several bristle-like teeth at base. Flowers axillary, whitish, 

 slender, the lower lip yellow on the inside. Capsules, flat, 

 acute, pointing downward, containing four seeds. — June, July. — 

 Annual. 



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