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269 DECANDU1A MONOGYNIA 



Bhort, lancc-jvato, acute, minutely ciliate ; bracU% at the base of the calyx, ovate, 

 acuminate, purplish. Corolla whin*, (flower-buda purple before ihey expand). 

 Dearly cylindric, about l third of an inch long, the limb with small revolute lobes. 

 stamens about half the Length of the corolla ; filaments flat, smooth ; anthers with 

 9 tubular lobes at summit} each lobe terminating in 2 acute rigid awns* ovary 

 depfesftedtglobose / style cyllndrlc, a Unit- assorted / stigma simple. Capsule 

 small, depresseoVgloboee, umbllicate, dark purplish brown, the sutures closed by 

 5 narrow ferruginous slightly convex ribs. 



Hub. Moist thickets; E.Marlborough; Great Valley: not common. /V.June, /v. 



069. This pretty species was collected by Mr. SAMUBL PbIROB, in swamj.y 



thickets near his residence; and also by Mr. Joseph Jacobs, near the foot of the 



Valley hill, north of the Ship tav< m, 



2. A. mariana, L. Loaves oval, mostly acuio at each end, very en- 

 tire, subcoriaceous, paler and puncticulatc beneath ; dowering branches 

 nearly naked; pedicels fasciculate, bracteate; calyx naked at base; 

 corolla ovoid-cylindric; anthers awnless at summit " Becky Mot. p. 817, 

 Mart land Andhomkda. J'uh-o — Stagger-bush. 



Sleml to 3 or 4 feet high, with erect branches, and a cinereous bark, sprinkled 

 with numerous small black dots. Leaves '2 to 3 inches long, and an im h to an 

 inch and half wide, rarely obtuse, shortly and bluntly mucronate, entire and 

 slightly revolute on the margin, smooth above, the under surface sprinkled with 

 small brown dots, and pubescent on the nerves and veins ; petioles about 1 fourth 

 of an inch long. Flowers in short sessile fasciculate racemes on the old branches, 

 from terminal and lateral buds, unaccompanied with leaves; pedicels about half 

 an inch long (of the fruit near an inch), with ovale bracts, like bud-scales, at base. 

 Calyx green, deeply 5-parted ; segments lanceolate, acute, half as long as the 

 corolla. Corolla white, or reddish white, large (about half an inch long). Stamens 

 included (sometimes wanting 1)\ filaments Hat, lanceolate, hairy, recurvedly 

 doubled below the anthers ; anthers terminating in 2 short awnless tubes opening 

 laterally at summit, and with 2 minute white decurrent diverging nuns at base. 

 Ovary conical, 5-angled ; style tapering, rather shorter than the corolla ; stigma 

 somewhat lobed. Capsule pentangular-ovoid, or somewhat urceo late, with the 

 apex truncate, about as long as the calyx-sv-iuents, brown, the sutures closed ex- 

 ternally by o whitish convex ribs. Seeds numerous, small, clavate, truncate at 

 summit, pale tawny, or straw color. 



Hub. Hilly woodlands ; London-rove ; Valley Hill : rare. Ft. June. F,. Aug. Sept. 

 Obs. Found by Dr. E. NbOHJUm, near WestGroVe Meeting House,— ami also 

 by D. Townsend, Esq. on the Valley hill, north of the Ship tavern. It is very 

 abundant in New-Jersey ;— where the farmers are of opinion it is destructive to 

 sheep, when eaten by them,— producing a disease called the staggers. 



3. A. ligustbixa, Jifuhi. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, and lance-oblong 

 acuminate, obsoletcly serrulate ; flower-bearing brandies terminal' 

 paniculate, naked; pedicels mostly without bracts ; corolla subglobosc,' 

 pubescent; anthers awnless. Meek, Hot. p. 218. 



A. paniculate. Jfarsh. Arbust. p. 7. in ltd. Sp. 2, p. G12 (excl. syn. 

 Linn.). Mx.Am. 1. p. 254. Pers. Syrt, 1. p. 48 1. Jit. £**, 3. p. 

 53. Pur*h, Am. I. p. 290. Bart. Phil. 1. /;. 108, liigcl. Boit. 1>. 

 1G7. Lindl. Ency. p. 3G0. Eat. Man. p. 17. Not of Linn. 



