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[498] TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 48 
ed. 2. p. 336; C. Cephalanthi, Engelm.! in Sill. Jour., XLII. 
336, t. 6, f. 1-6.— Wet places, often on Cephalanthus, Salix, 
ornus and other shrubs, but also on Vernoni er, 
est 
fer from those of the Missouri and Mississippi valleys only 
by having larger flowers (1.2-1.4 lines long), larger, more de- 
pressed, mostly 4-seeded capsules (14-2 lines in diameter) 
and larger (0.8 line sang) flatter seeds, 
Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 458, wrongly gives this very dis- 
tinct species as a synonym of C. compacta, with which it 
has scarcely any thing in common but the hooded capsule ; 
from small flowered forms of C. Gronovii it differs by the po- 
sition of the dead corolla and by the structure of the ovary 
e 
C. Cattrorntca, Choisy! Cuse. 183; DC. Prod. IX,, 
457 ; Hook & Arn.! Bot. Beechy, 364.—Both authors de. 
with a smooth or crenulate margin connecting 
the adnate parts of the filaments near the base of the corol- 
la; in a doubtful variety the scales are fully developed ; styles 
