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added. The glomerules almost always form two parallel 
lines on both sides of the stem, wherever it is attached to 
the stem of the nurse and somewhat flattened, rarely in de- 
tached clusters, where the stem is free; these clusters of 
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i + his see ee ash 
_tion, had not enveloped the whole in so much obscurity, that 
Choisy’s later name is to G preferred. 
re 66. C. compacta, Jussieu! in Hb.; Choisy! Cuse. 185, t. 
rod, IX, 45: 
4, £.2; DCP 8; Engelm. ! Bost. Journ. N Hist., 
7, 225; C. remotiflora C. Fruticum, Bertol. Mise. bot 
x ericana, auct. var.; C. im , Nutt.! in 
aes OC. A cata, Nutt.! i 
Hb.; C. coronata, Beyr.! in Hb.—From the banks of the 
St. Lawrence i in the State of New York southward, and on 
the Alleghany mountains from Pennsylvania to Georgia and 
Alabama, almost entirely on shrubs, such as Corylus, Alnus, 
Andromeda, ete. ; only seen, on herbaceous plants.— 
Clusters in fruit often {-1} inche s in = peek: — 
arow: 
but also abundant where it is free; tube of corolla sander, 
lacinie oblong ; dead corolla raised on top of the acutish cap- 
sule, giving it a pointed appearance; seeds 1-2, rarely 3-4 in 
each capsule, 0.8-1.0 line long, oval oblique, lenticular or cari- 
nate inside, scarcely rostrate ; hilum small, oblong, perpendi- 
cular or transverse. 
Var. 8. appressa; Lepidanche adpressa, Engelm.! in 
Sill. Journ. 45, p. 77; C. acaulis, Rat. Ann. Nat. 1820, p. 
13 2—Shady woods in "rich bottom-lands along streams in 
the Mississ'ppi valley, on Cephalanthus, settee Salix, Big- 
nonia, Vitis, Rhus Toxt oxicodend , Smilax and som me her- 
corolla wider, more deeply immersed in the calyx, lobes 
broader, capsule thicker, not so much pointed and corolla 
not so much rages above it, so that the clusters, eproslly 
= fruit, appear more obtuse; seeds of same size as 
sually 2-4 in a anenle: compressed, scarcely carinate, with 
F Poser, transverse hilum. The difference in the seeds ap- 
