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No. 819. 
TALINUM TERETIFOLIUM, 
Clase. Order. 
POLYANDRIA MONOGY N14. 
Native of the warmer parts of North 
America. Elliott, in his excellent botany of 
S. Carolina and Georgia, mentions its grow- 
ing on rocks at Athens, in the latter state, 
also in Virginia, Delaware, Louisiana. 
We received our plants from Dr. Wray in 
1823; then quite new to us, although the 
plant has been long known to exist, from a 
faithful representation of it in Plukenet, 
Tab. 223. 
It grows about six inches high, and its 
flower stalks are nearly as long: with us it 
ore in September : it seems likely 1 ka 
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