ORDER OF DESCRIPTION. 
(Specimen Page.) 
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PIStil ooo 
Multiple, fibrous. 
Herb, erect, branching, 4’, glabrous. 
Sessile, indistinct, oblong to spatulate, acute, entire, glabrous, opposite, 3" to 5” long. 
Solitary, terminal, slender peduncle, perfect, 5”. 
Guess, cleft, half-inferior cup. 
4, pointed, valvate. 
Light-blue with yellow eye, cleft, perigynous, salver. 
4, oval, pointed, valvate. 
4, sessile, free, epipetalous, alternate. 
Oblong, 2, longitudinal 
I, compound, style 1. 
2, oblong, lateral. 
2, half-superior, axillary. 
Loculicidal, pod notched at apex. 
Several in each cell, saucer-shaped. 
Remarks.—In some plants the style is exserted and the stamens included, in others the style is 
included and the stamens exserted. They grow in tufts. 
Class. — Exogenous. 
Division. — Monopetalous. 
ORDER. — Rubiacez. 
Name. } 
ScIENTIFIC. — Houstonia czrulea. 
Common.— Common Houstonia or Bluets. 
Locality. — Moist meadows, Trenton, N. J. Date.-——May 13th, 1870. 
