224 ICOSANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 



225. CUPHEA. Brown. Jacq. hort. 2. p. 83. (SalicarLe.) 



Calix ventricose, tubular, 6 to 12-toothed, 

 unequal. Petals 6, generally unequal, in- 

 serted upon the calix. Cajjsule with the 

 calix bursting longitudinally, 1 -celled. 

 Seeds few, lenticular, imbricated. — JSTutt. 



viscosissima. 1. C. viscose ; leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate-ob- 

 long, flowers 12-androus, lateral, solitary, very 

 shortly pedunculated. — Willd. Sp. pi. 2. p. 870. 

 and Pursh. 

 Balsamona Pinto, Vandell. fasc. t. 3. (Pursh.) 

 Ly thrum Cuphea, L. supp. 249. 

 L. petiolatum, Willd. Sp. PI. 2. p. 867. 

 Icon. Jacqu. hort. 2. t. 177. 



Clammy Cuphea. 



From ten to fifteen inches high. Flowers deep purple. 

 Petioles reddish-brown. Whole plant viscous, and covered in 

 the autumn by the pappus of Syngenesious plants, which is 

 wafted by the winds in contact with the viscous matter of the 

 plant and there retained. This plant covers whole fields near 

 Lancaster. Near this city it is very rare. On the margins of the 

 roads through the woods, west of Belmont. Annual. Sep- 

 tember. 



ORDER II. DIGYNIA. 



226. AGRIMONIA. Gen. pi. 830. (Rosacex.) 



Calix inferior, 5-toothed, caliculate, exter- 

 nally setigerous about the middle; setae 

 uncinate. Petals 5, inserted upon the ca- 

 lix. Seeds 2, inclosed in the base of the 

 calix. — JSTutt. 



