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dichotome, leaves ovate acute undulate ciliate, 
flowers racemose secund. — Texas and Louisi- 
ana, fine plant 3 feet high, leaves 2 or 3 inches 
long, flowers large blue, the 3 petals are quite 
evanescent, lasting only one hour expanded to- 
wards noon, but the calix is persistent as in 
Tradescantia. See in fl. tellur, my reform of 
the Genera blended in Tradescantia ; without 
attempting to give a complete Monograph of 
our real Tradescaritias (which now amount to 
about 15 species:) I shall here chiefly enu- 
merate my new species and varieties. 
451. Tradescantia Yirginica L. this well 
known linnean sp. may be known by the lan- 
ceolate smooth leaves, long foliose involucre 
of multiflore umbels and villose calix ; but so 
many sp. and var. are blended with it in gar- 
dens and herbals that it is needful to attend to 
many other differences, as will be seen below 
in my New sp. 
452. Trad. Virginica Var . alba. Hooker 
b. m. 3501. this white flower variety is not my 
Tr, ohiensis. 
453. Trad, ohiensis Raf. precis 146. Leaves 
flat linear acute smooth, umbel multiflore, in- 
volucre longer than flowers, calix smooth.— In 
Ohio, flowers white, described in 1814 from a 
specimen of Bencke given me by Vanvleck, but 
I have not met it in Ohio, and it may be a var. 
of my Tr. levigata. 
454. Trad \ virginica Var . purpurea Raf. 
differ by leaves narrow lanceolate, 6 to 10 in- 
ches long, umbel pauciflore 5-6fL petals purple 
■ — seen only in gardens, not met spontaneous, 
yet probably a peculiar sp. Tr. purpurea. 
455. Trod, virgin var. barhata Raf. differ 
by umbel, pauciflore 5-6fl. calix smooth except 
