8 DIANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 



aurea, i # G. leaves broad-linear, sessile, very entire 3-nerv- 



ed, spotted on their upper sides ; peduncles op- 

 posite nearly as long as the leaves, destitute of 

 abortive filaments. Pursh. 



G. officinalis Mich. fl. am. 1. p. 6. 



G. Caroliniensis Pers. ench. 1. p. 14. 



Golden- Pert. 



Flowers golden-yellow colour. Leaves yellow green. Plen- 

 tiful in the ditches of Jersey, particularly on the way-sides 

 of the road to Woodbury ; also in ditches near the swampy- 

 woods about a quarter of a mile from the ferry-house opposite 

 Gloucester point. It delights in sandy wet places, and dirty 

 ditches. Perennial. August. 



virginica. 2. G. leaves obovate-lanceolate, attenuated at the 

 base, dentated, nerved, smooth ; peduncles alter- 

 nate, very short ; capsules pointed, longer than the 

 calix. Pursh. 

 G. acuminata, Vahl. enum. pi. 1. p. 92. exelus. Syn. 

 (Pursh.) 



Virginian Hedge-hyssop. 



Flowers whitish or rather ocroleucous. In pools, ditches, 

 and slow-running streams ; common. Perennial. June, July. 



8. Lindernia. ( Scrophulariae . ) 



Cal. 5-parted, nearly equal. Cor. tubulose, 

 bi-labiate ; upter lip short, emarginate ; 

 lower trifid, unequal. Filaments 4, the 2 

 longer forked, and sterile. Stigma bilamel- 

 late. Capsule 2-celled, 2-valved ; semini- 

 ferous dissepiment parallel with the valves. 

 Nutt. 



attenuata. 

 Muhl. 



1. leaves ovate, attenuated at the base. 



A small plant very much branched, with short, ovate nar- 

 row-based leaves, and axillary, sessile purple flowers. Along 

 the margins of dirty ditches in sandy soil, Jersey. Plentiful 

 in such places, on or near the Woodbury road, about a mile or 

 two from Camden. I have never found it on the west side of 

 the Delaware. Annual. August. 



