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76 . BOTANICAL GAZETTE. | April, 
much more dorsally flattened, the lateral wings are strongly 
nerved towards the outer margin, instead of at the inner = 
gin on the commissural side, and a remarkable layer . 
strengthening cells completely invests the seed cavity, ee : 
of occurring in small isolated groups beneath each rib, allo 
sometimes shorter; in Heracleum generally about half as _ 
long, though sometimes nearly as long. 
HERACLEUM L.—Fruit oval, somewhat narrowed .at 
base: like Pastinaca, but with thick conical sty lope 
(figs. 41, 42).—Tall stout perennial, with ternately compoun 
leaves, deciduous involucre, white flowers, and obcordate : 
petals, the outer ones commonly larger and 2-cleft. ae 
1. H.lanatam Michx. Fl, i. 166. Woolly, stem grooved: 
leaflets broad, irregularly cut-toothed.—Wet ground, through- 
out the northern states, and as far south as North Carolina 
and Kentucky ; also westward. FI. June. 
EXPLANATION oF PLATE IIT.—Figures 27, 29, 37, 39, 41, are > 4; figures: 
31, 33, 35, are 63; all cross sections are 20: 
A Botanical Tramp through North Carolina. 
GERALD M’CARTHY. 
After spending some five or six days in botanizing in the 
Newberne, about forty-five miles farther south, and followed 
on foot, with portfolio and box, prepared to collect along the 
Ww 
ay. € road over which my route lay extended for the 
greater pa i 
Swamps, and in places was crossed by deep streams, which 
fferent swamps. Bridges a 
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