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tenuifolia. 
DIDYNAMIA, GYMNOSPERMIA. 
282, LIMOSELLA. Gen. pl. 1039. (Lisimachie.) 
Calix 5-cleft. Corolla 4 and 5 lobed, equal. 
Stamina approximating by pairs. Cap- 
sule 2-valved, subbilocular, many-seeded. 
—Nautt. 
1. L. leaves linear and very narrow; scarcely di- 
lated at the points; scape 1-flowered, about 
equal in length with the leaves.—Vuit. 
Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc. Ph. vol. 1. p. 115. 
Root surculose. eaves radical, succulent and somewhat 
fragile, erect, subcylindric-filiform, a little compressed and ob- 
tuse towards the point, membranaceously sheathing and radi- 
cant at the base, radical fibres white, compressed, and flaccid. 
Scapes or peduncles shorter than the leaves, one-flowered, 
radical, axillary, terete, at first erect, in fruit deflected. Calix 
cylindric-campanulate, border four and five-toothed, dentures 
acute. Corolla monopetalous, tubular, white, shaded with 
greyish blue outside, tube yellowish and glandular within, 
border spréading four and five-lobed, lobes oblong-oval, or 
oval, obtuse. Stamina four, approximating by pairs, included 
in the tube of the corolla; filaments short; anthers pale blue, 
two-celled. Style included, stigma capitate. Capsule nearly 
spherical, smooth, bursting the calix, bivalve, subbilocular, 
many-seeded. Seeds numerous, angular, somewhat gibbous, 
attached to a large and rounded receptacle, compressed at its 
base, and dilated on two sides, producing imperfect dissepi- 
ments, which are continued to the margin of the valves, hence 
the capsule is bilocular near its base, and only one-celled 
above.— Nutt. 
- Icon. Transactions of the Physico-Medical Society of New 
York, vol. 1. p. 439. 
Mudwort. 
First discovered on the low gravelly banks of the Dela- 
ware, above Kensington, by Mr. Nuttall. It has also been 
found in Connecticut by Dr. Ives. It is abundant on the shores 
of the Delaware at low tide, but must be vigilantly searched 
for, or from its minuteness it will be overlooked. I have also 
found it at low tide onthe shores of the Schuylkill, a little be- 
low Breck’s island. July. . 

