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them pedicelled in the axils of leaves that exceed the 

 flowers, with linear bracts at the base of the calyx which 

 equal the flowers, the other sessile and without bracts. 

 The upper peduncles become 2 and 1 flowered. Calyx 

 very villous. Corol hairy, white ; style 2 cleft a little 

 below the summit, the parts unequal ; Stigmas capitate. 

 Hab. sandy barrens. Flowers June.^ 



Allied to C. patens, but clearly distinct. First noticed 

 by Dr, Pickering, to whom it is dedicated. 



(27) 



Differs from Elliott's in a 



few particulars. Peduncles not half the length of the 

 petioles, 1 flowered ; Bracteas about the middle of the 

 peduncle; Corol near an inch long, pink or white ; Fila- 

 ments half the length of the corol, style a little longer. 

 Hab, rice fields. Flowers July. 



(28) Chelone LyonL Introduced on the authority of 

 Nuttall, as I know of no other who has seen it. Had I 

 not so much confidence in the general accuracy of his 

 observation, I should mistrust he had mistaken the purple 

 variety of C. glabra for it. I have never seen it except 

 on the high mountains of this State. 



(29) Gratiola acuminata. Stem 12-18 inches \n<rh, 

 erect, square, angles slightly winged, branching, and with 

 the whole plant smooth ; Leaves opposite, lanceolate, 

 wedge attenuate at base; the lowest oblomr, revolute at 

 the margin, obtuse, the upper half serrate ; Flowers 

 numerous, opposite, axillary; Peduncles an inch long, 

 slender, twice the length of the leaves, standing between 

 two small linear leafets in the nxils ; Calyx leaves 5, 

 linear or linear-lanceolate, equalling the tube of the corol, ' 

 one a little larger and broader than the rest, nerved ; 

 Bracts none or deciduous ; Capsule ovate, somewhat 

 acute; Stamens 4, all fertile. I describe from dried 



