1*°>- KKLA8T0XA.CEJC. (MKLASTO.MA FAMILY.) 



cohering with the ovary below, or with its angles. Petals i -6, twisted in 

 the bud, inserted with the i - \-2 stamens on the throat of the calyx. An- 

 ther adnate, often appendaged, usually opening by terminal pores. Ovary 

 8-6-celled. Ovules numerous, attached to the central placenta'. Style 

 solitary. Fruit baccate and indehiscent. or capsular and loculicidally de- 

 hiacent Seeds anatropous, without albumen. 



1. RHEXIA, L. Deer-Grass. 



Calyx-tube prolonged and narrowed above the ovary, 4-ch ft. Petals 4, round- 

 ish, deciduous. Stamens 8. Anthers 1 -celled, opening by u terminal pore. 

 Capsule 4-celled, many-seeded. — Perennial herbs. Leaves 3-. r )-ribbed. Flow- 

 ers cymose, terminal. 



* Anthers loinj, linear, curving upward, saccate at the base, and commonly furnished 

 with a bristle-like appendage at the insertion of the filaments :■ flowers purple or 

 whitish. 



1. R. Mariana, L. Bristly; stem branched, terete or G-angled ; leaves 

 lanceolate, acute, short-pctioled, bristly serrate ; calyx mostly smooth, cylindri- 

 cal in flower, the neck in fruit as long as the globose capsular portion ; flowers 

 parole. — Varies with narrower, often linear leaves, and smaller whitish flowers. 

 (R. lanecolata, Walt.) — Swamps, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. July 

 -Sept. — Stem l°-2° high. Leaves 3-ribbed. Flowers H' - 2' wide, hairy 

 externally. 



2. R. Virginica, L. Bristly; stem 4-anglcd, nearly simple ; haves ovate 

 and ovate-lanceolate, barely acute, sessile, bristly serrate, the lowest rounded ; 

 neck of the bristly fruiting calyx shorter than the capsular portion ; the lobes 

 ovate, acuminate. — Swamps, chiefly in the upper districts, Mississippi, and 

 northward. July and August. — Stem 6'- 12' high. Leaves 3 - 5-ribbed. 

 Flowers purple. 



3. R. Stricta, Pursh. Stem tall, smooth, 4-\\iu<_ r ed, bearded at the joints ; 

 leaves lanceolate and ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 5-ribbed, bristly ser- 

 rate, Bessile : cyme compound ; calyx Bmooth, urn-shaped, the lobes lanceolate. 

 — Margins of ponds in the pine barrens. Florida, Georgia, and westward. July 

 and August — Stem 2° -4° high. Leaves rugose, the lateral ribs obscure. 

 Flowers purple. 



4. R. glabella, Michx. Stem terete, smooth, mostly nniple ; leaves 

 lanceolate, s< ssile, entire or slightly serrulate, thick, Bmooth and glaucous ; calyx 



smooth or bristly; flowers huge, bright purple. — Low pine barrens, Florida to 



North Carolina, and west t<> Mississippi. Juno-August. — Root spongy. Stem 



2°-3° high. Leaves BWCCtish. 



* * Anthers short, oblong, erect, not appendagtd : neckq short 



■*- Fionas purple: l<ar<s small, omte or roundish, bristly serrulate. 

 .">. R. ciliosa, Michx. Btem simple, smooth, 4-anglcd above ; leaves bristly 

 on the upper surface, 8-ribbed; cyme few-flowered, leafy; calyx smooth. — 



•i the pine barrens, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. July and 



