162 FENTANDRIA MOXOGYNIA 



margined i and quite villosc. Peduncles solitary, or in pairs, about one-third of an 

 inch long, pilose, often with one or two minute ovate bracts near the middle* Calv 

 campanulate ; segments oblong, obtuse, at length refextd, often purplish. Petal 

 pale greenish yelloir, oblong, rounded at apex, shorter than the culyx-segments 

 Berries solitary, pendulous, large {half an inch to near an inch india?nctcr) oval 

 greenish amber color xchen mature. 



Nab. Gardens: frequent % Fl. April. Fr. July. 



Obs. There appears to be several varieties of this plant —which is cultivated 

 for its fine fruit. It rarely succeeds welly with us ;—j*irtly, no doubt, oicing t tht 

 climate,— and partly, perhaj>s,for tcatit of skill and care in the management* Th 

 young fruit is apt to become covered with a russet kind of mould, which cause* 

 it to blight ; and the bushes generally are prone to send up too many suckers from 

 the root. My friend, Mr. S. R. Gummkke, of Burlington, N. J. xcho is a liotunist 

 and a very successful Horticulturist, informs me that this last inentioncd evil may 

 be prevented, by carefully removing in bui\s from that portion of the cuttiiig§ 

 iwlun they are Ranted,) which is inserted in the ground. Seventeen or eighteen 

 additional species are enumerated as natives of the U. States; of which the R. 

 aureum, or Missouri Currant, is much cultivated, and greatly admired, for tin 

 beauty and spicy fragrance of its Jloiccrs. 



IJ. Flowers incomplete, a. Ovary superior. 



123. ANYCHIA. Mx. DC. Prodr. 3. p. 369. 

 [Greek, Onyx, onychos, a finger nail ; from its supjx>sed virtue in curing whitlows.5 



Calyx 5-parted ; segments oblong, comment, subsaccate and callous at 

 apex. Corolla 0. Sta?nens 3 to 5. Style short ; stigmas 2, sub- 

 capitate. Capsule indehiscent, utricular, 1-sceded, embraced by tht 

 persistent calyx. 



Herbaceous: dichotomously branching; leaves mostly opposite, with scarioui 

 •tipules ; flowers minute, solitary and dichotomal, or in small terminal fascicles. 

 Nat. Ord. 150. Lindl. Illecebuejb. 



1. A. dichotomy, Mx. Stem erect, or spreading, dichotomously 

 branched ; leaves subsessile, oblong-lanceolate, acute, cuneate at base, 

 roughish punctate; terminal flowers sub-fasciculate. Beck, Bot. p. 13l! 

 A. canadensis. /;//. Sk. 1. p. 307. Hook. Jim. I. p. 226. 

 Qucria canadensis, mild. Sp. 1, p. 494. Per*. Syn. }. p. 112. Ait. 

 Kew. 1. p. 185. Muhl. Catal. p. 15. J\utt. Gen. 1. p. 158. Bart. 

 Phil. I. p. 74. Bigel. Bost.p. 99. Florxil. Cestr. p. 17. Eat. Man. 

 p. 295. 



Dichotomous Anychia. Vulgo— Forked Chickweed. 



Root annual (perennial, mild. Muhl. EIL). Stem 4 to 8 or 10 inches high, te- 

 rete, slender, generally smoothish, sometimes retrorsely pubescent, often purple, 

 diffusely branched, a little tumid at the bifurcations ; branches filiform. Leaves 

 one fourth to near three fourths of an inch long, and one sixteenth to one quarter 

 Of an inch wide, varying from lance-linear to elliptic-oblong and cblanceolate, ojk 

 poshc, o.ten single at the branches, with 4 small ovate-lanceolate acuminate white 

 skinny stipules at base. Flowers inconspicuous, solitary in the forks of the 

 tranches, or two or three together, terminal and subfasciculate, on very short 

 pedicels, with minute scarious bracts. Calyx-segments green, with white mar* 

 gins, mostly gibbous at apex, sometime* flat. Stamens 3, rarely 5. Nutt. skort^ 



