NORTH AMERICAN 
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the. banks of the lower Ohio, and Missouri ri- 
vers, a small plant extending 3 to 6 inches with 
many short branches, leaves 3 lines long, 
760. Bionea sessiliflora Raf. atl. J. 78. 
Petiols winged oblong or cuneate narrow, acute 
at both ends, leaves bilobe ; flowers sessile agre- 
gate 3 to 5, bracts lanceolate. — The beautiful 
G. Dionea is no longer monotype but has devia- 
ted sp. D. muscipula the type is quite distinct 
from this by petiols broadly obcordate, flowers 
corymbose. Seen alive in our gardens as well 
as a variety Uniflora, smaller uniflore, with 
broader shorter leaves, petiols oblong acute 
winged. Both native of Carolina, flowers white 
estival, leaves irritable in all. This G. is the 
type of a Nat. Family Dionidia different from 
Alsinidia by single style. 
BORAGINRS 
761. Pulmonaria elliptica R. leaves ellip- 
tic acute at both ends, the radical on very long 
petiols, upper ovate ; flowers axillary peduncu- 
late nodding, calix with short segments lanceo- 
late acute. — In the Apalachian Mts. of Virginia 
and Carolina, stem smooth branched bipedal, 
flowers blue and small. 
762. Lxthospermum cracile Raf. annual, 
silky villose, stem slender erect virgate naked 
below, leaves petiolate linear acute adpressed, 
flowers terminal subsessile, tube of corolla 
longer than calix, segments of corolla oblong 
obtuse.— A very striking sp. sent me from Ala- 
bama and found on Red River Arkanzas and 
Texas by Nuttal in Collins herb, where noted 
as perhaps a N. G. but I see no difference, un- 
less the fruit be different, the corolla is realy 
funnel shape, but the lobes deeper or longer. 
Stem semipedal nearly simple, leaves uncial 
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