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RHEXIA VIRGINICA. 



VIRGINIAN RHEXIA. MEADOW BEAUTY. DEER-GRASS. 



Octandria Monogynia, Linn. Melastomx, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix urceolate, 4 to 5-cleft. Petals 4, oblique, inserted upon the calix. Anthers declinate. 

 Capsule setigerous, 4-celled, included in the ventricose calix. Receptacle subulate. 

 Seeds numerous. {Stamina sometimes 10.) — Nutt. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Stem angular, winged, garnished with scattered red hairs ; leaves sessile, oval-lanceolate, 

 serrated with bristled teeth, ciliated between the serratures, naked beneath, sparingly 

 and irregularly hirsute above, from 3 to 5 and 7-nerved. B. 



SYNONYMS. 



Rhexia septemnervia, Walt.? Fl. Car. ; the variety /3. of Pursh, perhaps, which has seven 



nerves, and attains a stature of four or five feet. 

 Alipanus vegetabilis carolinianus, Pluk. amalth. 8. 

 Lysimachia non papposa virginiana, tuberariae, foliis hirsutis, flore tetrapetalo rubello. Pluk. 



aim. 235. t. 202. fig. 8? 

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