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minal, few-flowered ; bractes ovate, acuminate, 
striate, glabrous ; joints of the loment suboval. 
—Mich. and Pursh. 
H. cuspidatum, Willd. 
A very large species, often four feet high. Pursh has de- 
scribed this plant and the H. cuspidatum severally—they are 
identical. In open woods and thickets, not uncommon. On the 
bluff at the Woodlands, abundant. Flowers large, purplish-red. 
Perennial. July to September. 
5. H. erect, smoothish ; leaves ternate, ovate, pu- ciliare. 
bescent beneath, ciliated on the margin; sti- 
pules filiform ; panicle terminal ; joints of the lo- 
ment semi-orbiculate, hispid.— Willd. 
About two and a half feet high. It is sometimes ) gris 
cent. Flowers small, violet-coloured. On the margins of sandy 
fields in Jersey, every where common. Perennial. July. 
6. H. erect, glabrous; leaves ternate, oblong- paniculatum. 
lanceolate or olliptical, smooths stipules subu- 
late; panicle terminal ; joints of the loment (4,) 
rhomboid pubescent.— Willd. 
Icon. Pluk. Mant. t. 432. f. 6. 
From two to three feet high. Leaves of a deep green, 
with a whitish central longitudinal spot. Flowers purple. 
Growing in thickets and woods; common. Perennial. July. 
7. H. very erect, glabrous, simple ; leaves petio- strictum. 
late, ternate, linear-elliptical, glabrous, reticu- 
late, veined, glaucous beneath; stipules subu- 
late; panicle terminal, pedunculate, few-flow- 
ered.—Pursh. 
Flowers small, pale purple. In the woods of Jersey, near 
Woodbury; rare. Perennial. July, August. 
8. H. erect, simple; leaves long, petiolate, ter- gtutinosum. 
nate, subrotund-ovate acuminate ; panicle scape- 
form from the base of thestem ; peduncles hairy, 
Viscous; joints of the loment oblong-triangular, 
smootish.— Willd. 

