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KEOBOT, • 
diffuse smooth, leaves sessile reniform suben- 
tire, capsules axillary solitary oblong, crowned 
by ovatoblong teeth. — Annual also, discovered 
in 1818 on rocks near Baltimore out of bloom 
as early as May, and also in the Alleghany 
Mts. This was deemed by Torrey a peculiar 
state of Legousia amplexicaulis , although that 
plant is erect rough, with different leaves and 
flowers. I consider them as great anomalies 
and curious pelorian Genus, as my Lobomon, 
Myctanthes &,c. 
907. Fedia iiemiodes Raf. dichotome, leaves 
obtuse, sessile ciliolate dentate at the base, 
lower spatulate, upper elliptic, flowers glome- 
rate sessile — in Arkanzas, anonymous in Coll, 
herb, semipedal, leaves 1 or 2 inches long, with 
2 or 3 large teeth on both sides at the base, but 
sometimes lacking, flowers terminal in small 
glomerules. 
908. Fedia ligulata Raf. dichotome above, 
leaves obtuse smooth entire, lower obovate or 
cuneate, upper ligulate, flowers glomerate, co- 
rollas with slender tube — another pretty sp, 
from Arkanzas and Louisiana, hardly pedal, 
leaves short uncial not ciliolate ; flowers white 
pretty, appearing pedicellated by the long tubes 
of corollas. 
909. Fedia ciliolata R. only once forked, 
leaves ciliolate, lower petiolate round or obo- 
vate, medial cuneate obtuse, upper oblong or 
lanceolate acute, base sometimes denticulate, 
flowers in bifid or twin glomerules, corolla short 
—in Kentucky and Illinois, 4 to 10 inches high, 
leaves small, longest uncial. It has several va- 
rieties or incipient Sp. 1 Ternifolia , semipedal 
leaves ternate, stem twice trifid, subtriflore — 2, 
Acuta? all the leaves acute entire, upper linear 
