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Lysimachia lutea erecta, Sloane, I. 37. t, 11. f. 1. — Jus- 

 siua erecta, Swartz. Obs. 173 — Jussitea erecta, DC. 

 Prod. Ill, 5. 



HAB. Damp pastures. 



F L. Spring. 



Stem herbaceous, 2-4 feet in height, erect, branched, 

 glabrous, rubescent. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate: pe- 

 tioles very short, red. Flowers axillary, solitary, yel- 

 low, rather small. Calycine lobes ovato- lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, spreading, glabrous. Petals 4, remote, entire, 

 deciduous. Stamens 8, shorter than the petals, erect : 

 anthers diminutive, whitish. Style very short: stigma 

 capitate. Capsule elongated, half the length of the leaf, 

 tetragonal, 4-celled, 4-valved : seeds very minute. 



4. Jussisea octonervia. Eight -nerved Jussi&a. 



Herbaceous erect glabrous except the ends of 

 the branches which are pubescent, leaves angusto- 

 lanceolate acuminate, (lowers sessile, calycine 

 lobes 4 lanceolate acute, tube cylindrical 8-nerved 

 shorter than the floral leaf, petals obovate emar- 

 ginate larger than the lobes of the calyx. 



GEnothera assurgens glabra Browne, Jam. 208. — 

 (Enothera octonervia, Jacq. Amer. 102. t. 70. — Jussiaea 

 octonervia, DC. Prod. 111. 57. 



HAB. Marshy ground : river courses. 



FL. April. 



Stem 3-4 feet in height : branches terete, erubescent* 

 glabrous, 6-lineated ; towards the extremity compressed* 

 hexnngular, and puberulous. Leaves lanceolate with an 

 apicula, attenuated at the base, minutely puberulous and 

 ciliated, and pellucido-punctulated along the margin : 

 petiole short. Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile, rather 

 large, yellow, ebracteolated. Calycine lobes lanceolate, 

 attenuato-acuminate, 5-7-nerved, minutely puberulous ex- 

 ternally, and ciliated. Petals three times larger than the 

 calycine lobes, broad-obovate, emarginate, veined, deci- 

 duous. Stamens 8. Style short, thick, half the length 

 of the calycine lobes, conical at the base and tetragonal, 

 with a villous arched line corresponding to the inseition 

 of each alternate filament: stigma large, capitate. Cap- 

 sule 2 inches in length, attenuated, slightly curved and 



