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by the truncate calyx with minute teeth. 
They have all the same slender, very 
branchy habit, the stems always marked with 
decurrent lines from the base of the leaves, 
the anthers with long white woolly hairs. 
34. G. setacea (Walt. Fl. Car. 170 sec. 
Pursh et Nutt.) ramis gracilibus, foliisque 
setaceis scabriusculis, floribus paucis lon- 
ge pedunculatis, calycis dentibus brevi- 
bus setaceis, capsula ovata calyce longiore. 
B. parvifolia, foliis distantibus 3—6 lin. 
longis, floribus racemosis. 
Has. Pennsylvania to Carolina, St. Lou- 
is, Drummond. 8. Jacksonville. (v. s. sp.) 
A species allied to G. tenuifolia, but 
certainly distinct. The variety 8. has some 
resemblance to G. aphylla, but the leaves 
are never reduced to mere squame. T 
capsule, in both varieties, is longer in 
proportion to the calyx, than in either G. 
tenuifolia or G. aphylla, between which 
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species this one forms the connecting link. Jforescentie Eugerardearum j corollis pur- 
It does not dry so black as any others of pureis flavisve. 
the genus. 
35. G. aphylla (Nutt. Gen. Pl. N. Amer. 
2. 47.) ramis elongatis filiformibus subnu- 
dis scabris, foliis brevibus remotis lineari- 
bus vel omnibus minutis squameformibus, 
ycibus unculatis truncatis dentibus 
brevissimis acutis, capsula globosa caly- 
cem excedente 
B. filicaulis, ramis gracillimis paucifloris 
floribus parvis. 
y. grandiflora, ramis rigidis, floribus ra- 
cemosis majusculis. 
Has. North Carolina to Florida, Nut- 
tall. Jacks: Drummond. (v. s. sp.) 
In the variety @. the flowers are rather 
smaller, in y. rather larger than in the com- 
mon varieties of G. tenuifolia. The G 
aphylla appears to be a variable plant, but. 
readily known by the greater number of 
the leaves being reduced to obtuse or mu- 
|. eronate squamz scarcely a line long. Very 
~ rarely, the lower leaves attain the length of 
four or five lines, in which case they are 
Calyx lla a 
lacinus iia hi dis. Stamina didy- 
nama, antheris dr equaliter bilocu- 
SYNOPSIS OF THE GERARDIE.E. 
laribus fertilibus. Herba Indica, folüs 
pinnatisectis laciniis linearibus. 
acute tetragonus. Racemi numerosi, virga- 
ti, in paniculam amplam dispositi. Flores | 
breviter pedicellati. Corolla vix 2 lin. 
longa. apsula ovoideo -globosa retusa = 
parum compressa, valvulis maturitate re- - 
curvis integris. : 
Has. Himalaya Mountains. (v. s. p) 
SECTIO VI. Sopusta. 
Calyx campanulatus 5-dentatus.' Co- 
rolle lacinie integre. Stamina didynama, 
antherarum omnium loculo altero fertili 
erecto altero minore divergente casso. Cap- 
sule valvule sepius bifide, dissepvmento 
ce, foliis angustis plerumque incisis, 
37. G. Sopubia, rigida, ramosa, foliis 
pinnatisectis, laciniis linearibus scabris, 
dentibus calycinis ovatis margine ciliato- 
membranaceis tubo multo brevioribus. ' . 
G. scabra, Wall. Cat. n 
Scroph. Ind. 49, non Zi à 
Sopubia trifida, Zamilt. in Don Prod. 
Fl. Nep. 88 
Has, Himalaya range, common, also in 
Ceylon, Macrae, and Madagascar, Lyall. 
(v. s. sp. 
Flowers yellow? The Madagascar spe- 
cimens have rather larger, or, perhaps, 
only better dried flowers than the East 
Indian ones, but are not otherwise distinct. 
Amongst them is an imperfect one, with. 
inde dentatis incisisve, dentibus, calyc. 
lanceolatis acutis nudis tubo multo bre’ 
(v. s. sp.) 
