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1. M. Jalapa, L. Marvel of Peru. 



I. -lives smooth, cordate, acuminate ; flowers In clusters, stalked, large. T1> j« well 



known plant is a native of the West Indies. Stem 2 feet high. Flowrrs lar^e in, 

 axillary and terminal cluster*, with a wide spreading border, opening at 4-oVl. ck, 

 ?. M., bright purple. By cultivation it sports into many varieties with yellow aid 

 white, red aud while, and red and yellow flowers. June— Sept. 



2. M. LONGIFLORA, L. Lorn/ flowered Four-o'clock. 



Lean-; pubescent ; fl u-rrs crowded ; tube of the perianth very long, hairy. Na- 

 tive of Mexico. Per. June — Sept. Sit in 2 feet high. F lowers white. 



Order 89. PHYTOLAGGACEiS.— Pokcwced Jfomfe. 



Plants with alternate entire leave?, ana* perfect JU wers, with nearly Vie character of 



: ';/" en many tappets united 



iuto a ring and forming a berry in fruit; represented in the Northern States on'j 

 by the typical genua 



PHYTOLACCA, Tourn. Pokeweed. 



Gr. phutcni plant, and th . lake, innllr.sion to the coloring matter which" 



the berries yield. 



Calyx of 5 rounded and petal-like sepals. Stamens 5 

 to 3 : J. Ovary of 5 to 12 earpels, united into a ring, with 

 *as many short seperate stales, in fruit forming a depres 

 globose 5 to 12-Gell«d berry, with a single vertieal seed in 

 each celL— -Tall a . with large pei 



//(coming lateral and opposite by the 

 axillary prolongation of the stem. 



P. decandra, L. Cfommon Poke or ScoJ&e. Go 



Leaves ovatj, acute at both en - fes 10. 



\\c.\ i a. July — Sept. Root tery large, pcfo 



Si ■ 5 to 8 feet hijj] 



■ 



. Fruit a dark purple berry, tiled with a < ri 

 j.oi ■•. 



Order 90. PGLY£C: J;— Buckwheat Fa) 



IT rbs. with a'ti n ". of 



II perfct jlowtr.-i, k i\ v. »*~: jr 

 liia persist* nt calyx, 

 ertA ' - fS 4 to 18, inserted on the base of the 3 to C cleft fcsl 



1. POLYGONUM, Linn. Knotwef.d. 



&t.pblu. many, andffofau, knee, from the numerous Joii 



Calyx mostly 5-parted, the divisions often petul-iike, per- 

 at Stamens 4 to 9. Styles ors**ro5f£s 2 to & 



