TETRANDRIA, MONOGTN] \ «9 



J. P. entirely covered with a whitish pubescence ; virgiuica. 

 leaves lanceolate-oval, subdenticulate, flowers re- 

 mote, scape angular. — Willd* 



Icon. Morris. Hist. 3. s. 8. t. 15. f. 8. 



Virginian Pluntunc. 



• 

 Easily recognised by its white pubese>cnce. In barren fields 

 of dr\ toil; particular!] in Jersey, common. Il rmrietMuoh 

 in si/.e. frequently dowering, in the sandv grass-roads of Jer- 

 sey, when onl) an inch and a half high j and not seldom at- 

 taining the height of twelve inches. Biennial. From May 

 till autumn. 



ANDREWSIA. Sprengel. [Anleitung zur Kenntniss der 

 G-. w.ichse. p. 474.] ( Gentiuv.x J 



Ca/ix 4 parted, appresscd. Corolla subcam- 

 panulate, 4- parted ; segments somewhat 

 erect. Stigma thick, glandulous, and part- 

 ly bifid. Capsule 1-cellcd, 2-valved, many- 

 seeded, surrounded by the persistent calix 

 and corolla. — Xutt. 



1 . A. stem somewhat branched, peduncles opposite, paniculata, 

 the lower ones branched ; segments of the corolla 

 oval-acute, scarcely longer than the calix ; style 

 ihort. — Pursh. 



Centaurella paniculata, Mich. 



C. autumnalis, Pursli. 



Ccntaurium autumnale, Pers. vol. 1. p. 137. 



S igina Virginica, Willd. torn. 1. p. 719. 



Bartonia tcnella, Muhl. and Willd. in act. soc. natur. 

 cur. Berol. 4. v. 3. 



Bartonia temlla, Pers. vol. 1. p. 141. 



Bartonia paniculata, Muhl. Cat. p. 15. 

 Icon. Mich. Fl. Bor. Am. t. 12. f. 1. 



Panicle-Jlixuered Andrezvsia. 



This little plant has produced no little confusion among 

 botanists, in their various descriptions of it, and the different 

 names given to it, as enumerated above. Professor Sprengel, 



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