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Iioustonia crcrulea. JJ'/lld. Sp. 1. /;. 583. JV/\<>. Syn. 1. p. 125. 

 AiuKevt. Up, 235. Mufti. Catnip. 15. JSfatt. Gen. I. p. 95. #rfr/ 

 PhiL Up. 84. AV/. M-. 1./;. 192. Ilart..)nu 1./;. 119. Icow,*a*. 34.' 

 /. 1. JK^*/. Host. p. 53. 7W. fY. 1 /,. 172. Ejusd. Com/), p. 81. 

 *%n//. CW/r. />. 19. LindL Ency. p. 90. Beck, Bot. p. 212. Ear. 

 Man. p. 177. var. chitior. J'uvsh, Am. 1. />. 106. 

 fl. Linncef, var. elatior. Mx. Am. 1. p. 81. 

 Biue Hedyotis. V ul go— Dwarf Pink. Bluets. Innocence. 



ffart perennial, fiftems numerous, 3 to 6 inches high, erect, slender, quadran- 

 gular, dichotomous, smooth. Radical leaves spaiulate, obtuse, narrowed to a pe- 

 tiole at base, smooth, minutely ciliate ; stem-leaves oblanceolate, or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, 8 .mewhat ciliate ; stipules short and broad. Calyx- 'Corneals ob- 

 long, erect, much shorter than the tube of the corolla, persistent. Corolla blue, 

 or blue and white, (sometimes nearly all white,) with a yellow throat; tube one 

 fourth of an Inch long; lobes obovate, acute. Stamens included. Style longer 

 than the tube of the corolla ; stigma bifid. Capsule broadly obcordate, projecting 

 above the entire part of'lhe calyx, opening at the top in tho direction ofits longest 

 diameter, but across the dissepiment. Seeds small, orbicular, compressed, ru- 

 gose, with a cavity on one si 



Hub. Grassy banks, and woodlands : c.mim.m. Fl. April— Sept. Fr. June Octo. 



Obs. I was retuetant to merge this plant (so well known by the name of //■ 

 torUaf in the present genus / but the high authority of Prof. Hooker, and my own 

 conviction of its propriety, induced me to yield the point. Regarding them all as 

 bel m ing to Hedyotis y th< re are 9 or 10 additional species enumerated in the U. 

 States. 



73. MITCIIELLA. L. Mat. Gen. 138. 

 [Named in honoi of Dr. John Mitchell : a Botanist of Virginia.] 



Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla funnel-form ; tube terete; limb 4-partctl. 

 spreading, villous on the inner side. Berry didymous, 4-seeded. 



A Suffruiicose creeping evergreen: leaves opposite, petiolate, connect d by mi- 

 nute stipules; flowers in pairs on twin ovaries, a.xillary or terminal. Nat, Ord. 

 190. Lindl Cinchonacbjb. 



1. M. rbpens, L. Stem prostrate, branched, smooth ; leaves ovate; 

 flowers m pairs on a single peduncle. Bech.Bot. p. 160. Icox Be 

 Am. 3. tab. 95. /. 1. 



Crbbpixg Mitckbua. / V^— Partridge Berry. 



Perennial. Stem creeping,6 to 12 inches long, branching in all directions from 

 the root Leaves ovate, or roundish-ovate, sometimes a little cordate at base, 

 entire, da?k green, generally with a whitish central line, over the midrib; 

 >les connected by small acuminate stipules., Flowers in pairs, on a twin or 

 coalesced.ovary,attho end of a peduncle whirl, is about as long as the petioles. 

 Caly&eegments small, persistent. Corolla white; tube abouthalfan inch long, 

 slender; limb very villousbft the inside ; lobes lance-ovate, acute. Stigma most. 

 ly -J-cleft. Berry subgioU.se, crowned with the persistent teeth of the 2 calyces. 

 red when mature. 



Hab. Moist woodlands, about the roots of trees: common. Fl. June. Fr. Octo. 



Obs. I have occasionally observed U nvers with the limb of the corolla three- 

 lobed,nni\ then always triandroue.—Bomelimea one on an ovary was so,— and 

 sometimes both. The berries frequently remain until the flowers of the succeed- 

 ing year put forth. They are eatable, but insipid. This is the only species »f the 

 genus in the U. States. 



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