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3. IVI. hairy ; seeds retrorselv aculeate ; leaves ovate- Virginian*/ 

 lanceolate, acuminate; racemes divaricate. — WlUd. 



*■ I J } itr 



Virginian Scorpion-grass. 



About two f.'et high. Leaves larg-e, oval, and scabrous, 

 -mall, white. Fruit covered with prickle9. 

 \b • the 1 till of Schuylkill, west side, in the woods ; very 

 rare. Annual? July. 



: LITIIOSPERMUM Gen. pi. 244. (Bmragmm.) 



Culix 5-parted. Corolla funnel- form, 5-lobed, 

 orifice open, naked. Stigma bifid. Seed 

 indurated, shining. (Stamina and style in- 

 eluded within the corolla.) — Xutt. 



1. L. seed rough; corolla scarcely longer than the amine. 

 calix ; leaves obtuse, without veins. — Smith. 



Icon. Eng. Bot. t. 123. Fl. Dan. 4-56. 



Field Gromivell. 



A rouph or hispid plant, with white f.owers- Found in cul- 

 tivated and neglected fields but most abundant in the former. 

 I* lies and sickles of the reapers, by its siliceous 



Introduced among t-eds from Europe, but now 



naturalized. Annual. May till Jul; 



2. L. c eds protuherantly ovate, shining, every latifoiium 



^.ere deeply-pitted ; leaves ovate-oblong, nerved. 

 — Mich. 

 I,, officinale, Muhl. 



About two feet high • Very rare in this n< irhood ; I 



have only found it in shady v -<-veral miles above the Falls 



Schuylkill, and I par'mgly* Flowers ochroleucoi - 



al. June. 



CYM tGLOSS .J. (Borra S inex.) 



>-part Corolla funnel-formed, 5- 



tobed, i connivent convex 



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