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the large, oval, deeply fringed scales; the oval, slightly conic 
ovary. Seeds 0.6-0.9 line long, obliquely oval, rarely ros- 
trate, with an oblong-linear, usually perpendicular hilum.— 
The following varieties may be distinguished : 
ar. a, VULGIVAGA, the common form, as described and 
figured in Sill. Journ. and Chois. Cuse. ; itis Willdenow’s ori- 
in l C. ae . 
ar, 8, LaTiFLORA, C. Saururi, Engelm.! 1. ¢. p. 336, 
t. 6, f 17-21; calyx more membranaceous; lacinie and 
stamens of equal length, as long as the sh tube ; scales 
narrow and longer than the tube; in eastern specimens the 
flowers are er, i sometimes larger than in var, 
nw 
«,—From Massachusetts to North Carolina and westward to 
Illinois and Missouri. 
Var. y. catyprrata; C.Bonariensis, H. B. Carlsr. al.; 
C. Chilensis, H, B. Frib. al., not Ker.; similar to the first 
form, flowers even more deeply campanulate, usually glan- 
dulous, rather larger, in very loose panicles; corolla re- 
saute n, top of capsule——Western Louisiana, Gregg! 
pane indheimer! cultivated in several botanical gardens 
erm 
any. 
Var. 6. 2? curtA; C. umbrosa, Hook. l. c. in part ; flowers 
1} lines long, glandulous; calyx and short broadly 
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a small, oblong, transverse hilum.—Northwestern America, 
Douglas! Fremont! 79 (1845).—Perhaps a distinct species, 
taking the place of C. Gronovii on the Pacific side of the 
ntinent. 
61. C. rostrata, Shuttleworth! in sched., Engelm.! in 
Bost. Journ. n. h., V. 225; C. oxycarpa, Engelm! in sched. 
—In shady woods, on tall coarse herbs, rarely on shrubs, 
