PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA H3 



Chironia ingularU, Wilkl. 



Icon. Bart. Veg. Mat. Med. U. S. vol. 1. 1. 2 k 



Centaury. Centry. 



This beautiful plant is much esteemed for its medicinal 

 virtues, which arc bitter, tonic, and stomachic (See Veg. 

 Mat. Med. U S.) From nine to eighteen inches high. Flow- 

 ers peach-blossom red above, pale, or nearly white underneath, 

 with a pentangular yellow spot in the centre, and spiral yellow 

 anthers. On the Woodlands, rare- In damp grounds, Jersey, 

 near Woodbury, not frequent Biennial ? July. 



10a AZALEA. Gen. pL 277. ( Rhododendra.) 



CaCx 5-parted. Corolla funnel-form, or cam- 



panulate, 5 -cleft, unequal. Stamina dcclin- 



!, inserted upon the torus or receptacle. 



Style declined, stigma obtuse. Capsule 



5 -eel led. — Xutt. 



1. A. fl jwers rather naked ; leaves lanceolate-oblong, nudifloi*. 

 pubescent, the nerves beneath bristly ; corolla 

 buirv ; stamens much longer than the tube ol the 

 con.'lb.— IVilU. 



A. periclymenoicles, Mich. 



A. periclymena, Pers. 



Wild Honey-suckle. 



This very beautiful shrub is common in open woods, of rich 



• e underwood, and is frequent in Jersey along the 



margins of swump> and in b *ggy mvod. In the early part 



the 'e:^ >n, it flowers before the leaves have appeared. 



reri red. Ij • April rarely — May. 



J. A. leaves on the margin scabrous ; corolla hairy, v.icosa. 

 glutinous ; stamens scarcely longer than the co- 

 rolla. — Sp. PI. 



A larger 9pecies, with white viscous fragrant flowers, 

 i four to eight or nine feet high. Very common on the 

 borders nf damp woods in Jersey, and among underwood. 

 Plentiful on the road to Woodbury'. ^ • J unc » J ,U . N 



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