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MiTCHELLA. RUBIACE.E. 315 



• whitish longitudinal line, of a firm and somewhat coriaceous texture : petiole shorter than the 

 lamma. Flowers about half an inch long, of two kinds in different plants : one kind with the 

 stamens conspicuously exserted, and the style included ; the other with the stamens included 

 and the style exserted : the parts usually in fours, but not unfrequently in fives, and some- 



Zu 'f r'!' Z 'u°"' ""'^'"^ °^ '" '"'^'^ '" '^'^'"^^'^'' ^--"«d with the persistent 



teeth of 2 calyces edible but insipid, remaining through the winter and following spnng. 



Moist woods about the roots of trees ; common. Fl. June. Fr. September. The plant 

 turns black m drymg. ^ 



Tribe III. HEDYOTIDE^. Cham. ^ Schlecht. 



Fruit capsular, Z-celled, usually loculictdal ; the cells several- o,- manv-seeded Seeds 



^rngl.ss. Albumen ftesUy. ^st^vat^on of the corolla mostly rn^hricullrcontorfed- 



Herbs or shrubs Strpules betroeen the petroles, eUher one or tu.o on each ^^ or 



^h'b^t^ ""' '^' ''''''''' "'^ « -«.^ra«ac.o«. sheath, .luch rs often ^^^ 



4. HEDYOTfS. Linn. ; A. Richard, Rubiac. m mem. soc. hist. Par. 5. p 133 ■ Wight 

 4- Arn. prodr. fl. Ind. Or. 1 . p. 405 ; Endl. gen. 3240. BLUETS. 



Hedtotis, Houston/a and OLDEm,ANDu, Lmn. Anotis, &c. DC. 

 [ From .he Greek, koUjs, sweet, and ous (otos), an ear; the leaves resembling the cars If some animals.] 



Calyx-tube ovate or globose ; the limb 4-tooihed. Corolla funnel-form, salver-form or rotate 

 4-lobed; the lobes imbricate in estivation. Stamens 4, inserted either into the throat o^ 

 towards the base of the tube. Stigma usually 2-cleft or 2-lobed. Capsule globose ovoid 

 or obcordate, mostly coriaceous, the summit often free from and exserted beyond the calyx 

 2.celled, open across the summit by loculicidal dehiscence, and at length the valves also 

 split at the top. Seeds few or numerous, on placenta which project into each cell • the 

 testa pitted or reticulate.- Herbs or suffruticose plants. Stipules connate with the peJiole 

 entire, toothed, or sometimes fringed with bristles. Flowers axillary or terminal, solitary 

 or cymulose, or glomerate. Most of the species turn blackish in drying. 



* *• ^^7"'; fnnnd.form or salver-form ; the tube much longer than the caly.-teeth : stamens in one 



n M« 0/A.r, the flamens inserted ^nto the tube of the corolla near its base, an.1 the style exserted- 

 cap^le more or less free from the calyx towards the summit, ..ith fe. (8 - ^0) eelTL 

 cell : seeds v>Uh a deep hollow on the face, pitied or reticulated. 



1. Hedvotis c^auLBA, Hook. n,rn„,on Bluets. Dwarf Risk. 



Annual or biennial, smooth; stems numerous, erect or spreading, dichotomous • leaves 

 0,41-spatulate or obianceolate , the radical and lower ones tapering at tLe base a^d somewli: 



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