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date acuminate yellowish leaves only at the summit, the 

 caulls otherwise naked ; sometimes a single long petiolate 

 leaf jjroceeds, beside the stem, from the root. The curi- 

 ous and unusual shape of the nectary suddenly bent in- 

 wardly and pointed, forms the most striking feature of dif- 

 ference. I doubt whether this has been found in the south-^ 

 ern states. 



25. Species. V, eriocarpa. Nobis. 



An Nutlall p. 150 n. 15. var. ofpubescens^ 



I doubt the more that Nuttall's variety is my new spe- 

 cies, as he expressly remarks, that in that the stipules are 

 smaller, while the uncommon large size of the stipules in 

 mine, forms a prominent distinction of it from pubcscens. 

 And yet Mr. Torrey of New-York informs me that Mr. 

 Nuttall having seen a specimen of this among plants, I sent 

 to Mr. Torrey, doubted of hs being distinct. I describe 

 mine thus. 



V. caulescens, scabriuscula. Caidibus decumbentibus, 

 demum assurgentibus, difFusis, crassiusculis, angulosis, flexu- 

 osis, glabris, a radice ramosis, foliosis. 



Foliis ime cordatis, venoso-nervosis; saepe reniformibus, 

 diffusis in petiolis longiusculis; margine dentatis saepe acu- 

 minatis. Pagina superiori opacis glabris, aut parum pilo- 

 siusculis: inferiori magis lutescentibus pilosis in nervis pro- 

 minulis. Petiolis unilatere applanatis, pilis rigidis obsitis. 



Stipulis axillaribus magnis, latis, ovatis, obtusis, semiam- 

 plexicaulibus, non marcidis, sed viridibus, margine ciliatis. ' 



Floribus majusculis viridi-flavis, in pedunculis breviusculls 

 axillaribus, versus basin minutim stipulatis. Peialo infimo 

 nigro-striato ; binis lateralibus barba tenuissima adspersis, 

 striis paucioribus ; superioribus minoribus nudis. J^aclario 

 brevi vix producto, obtuso. Calycis laciniis glabris, ciliatis 

 acuminatis. Stigmate deciduo in stylo longo, globoso, 

 utrinque pilis ornato. 



Capsulis magnis, ovatis, villo densissimo omnino tectis, 

 canescentibus. 



Radice diffusa. 



This is common with us in newly cleared rich meadow 

 bottoms and spreads considerably. The other is more at'^ 

 tached to woods. Ours I never met with in any remarkably 

 degree hairy — and at first called it scabriuscula from its ap- 

 pearance occasioued by the dispersed hair on the nerves, 



