GERARDIA TENUIFOLIA. 



SLENDER-LEAVED GERARDIA. 

 Didynamia gymnospcnma, Linn. Scrophularix, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix half-cleft, or 5-toothed. Corolla sub-campanulate, unequally 5-lobed, segments, 

 mostly rounded. Capsule 2-celled, opening at the summit. Nutt. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Paniculate branched, leaves linear ; peduncles axillary, opposite, longer than the 

 flowers. Willd. 



SYNONYM. 

 G. erecta, Walt. 



Plant small and delicate. Root biennial. Stem erect, very much 

 branched, about ten or fifteen inches high. Blanches fragile, and 

 marly filiform. Leaves sessile, opposite, linear, acute, rigid, becom- 



