508 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
the large, _ sane fringed scales; the oval, slightly conie | 
ovary. Seeds 0.6-0.9 lina long, obliquely oral Taye 
trate, with an athlemetnees, usually perpendicular hilum— 
The followin, un varieties may be distinguished: 
ar. IvaGa, the common form, as described and | 
figured in Sill. Sour and Chois. Cuse. ; it is Wile | 
ginal C. Gronoviti, in his Hb. nro. 3160, a very loosely flov- | 
ered specimen.—On coarse herbs and ‘shrabe, commonly in | 
moist shady places, from Canada and Maine to Florida, west- 
ward to Missouri, Arkansas and Texas; I have ce co ‘- 
he 
C. Wider veoe: Shuttlew. ! in Pl. Rugel from Alabama; some- 
es it occurs with 4-parted flowers, var. fetramerts rameris, Engel. 
Vv 
f. LATIFLORA, C. gerne Engelm.! Ph He p. 334, 
t. bs f 17-21; calyx more membrana oat lacinie 
stamens of equal bngth, as long as the ee 
narrow and longer than the tube; in fire 
flowers are nates. in western sometimes larger than 
a.—From a to North Carolina and | 
Illinois and Missouri. 
Var. y. caLypTRrata; C, Bonariensis, | 
C. Chilensis, H. B. Frib. al., not Ker.; 
Vis. of C. umbros eae 
pores lacie ines tae seaio en Perr and saat 
a small, 
Dooga ye oS a 
at lace | £6. Gronovit ae 
