[ <* 
tomons ; leaves peliolate, elliptical lanceolate, acuminnte, smooih, yeilow'.sS g"ii«''-' 
•C' usbenea'h ; c\ n.e erect, pedunculate, axillaiy o ilie las* •. 'chotoTi sarjd much 
slior'i r, nakcfl and 'vichotomoi]!). — A sbrul) four to five feet liiRh, gfrowitig ou 
the bnnks of the KinlMckv river. I descril)ed it in the Western Review, vol. 1. 
p 229. The C a/Airfa of Erhart which i.s a dwtinct species, difiers from it by 
lanceclate le.ivc s, not obliqiial, dimidiate pe(i Is. cyms 'erminal, £ifc. and the C. 
pulji&ama of Fl- Ludovicianahy sessile leaves, fruit black, fee. 
102 Ihnistonia ropestiis. Srrooth ; stems fruticuloi-e, a'^.snrpent and .c:enicu- 
late; leaves lonj:^ linear, attenuate and acute at botli ends; flowers corymbose 
paniculate; pedoncles short, inieqtial ; divisions of tlio corolla lancef.-late acute, 
style exert, capsule elongate — A small shrub, a foot hi{>;h, growinj^ on the cVrflf's 
of the Ket'tucky river, and blossoming in August. It is very different from H. 
teif'ifohn of Ni'tta'l which is not fr'itescent 
10.3 ./]ptvine C Gulhim l^.J rnsriilifora. <^t( m erect ; leaves qualernate, Rf mi- 
peti late. »nate-lanceola1e, nearly (btuse triner^e, marpin and nerves ciiiate ; 
flowersin divaricate, lateral, loose and tnchotomous p.-micles ; bracts s opposite 
lanceolate; peduncles lonp^ and .slender ; corolla viici'', divisions ovafe miicro. 
liat'. fruit smor.Mi.— A pretty specirswitli dark purph flowers; it erows in »he 
AUe*'' anv rr.f-untains of Maryl.'uid, &c bl'>ssoniiii}!r •'' .Tune. Slem a fool b.ifr'i ; 
Pert nnial '' hf linnear name of r.V;/z?/jji beinp- tearly the same as .ll/hir:, the 
fornu V and b- tt> r name cf Tournefort outrbt to b' empU'VPd insti a . 
104 Cacahi! pavicvlata 'Stem srrooved ; leaves petir'a'' , rl.c n ttidid, acrte 
at b()<h trif's : base enlire. ren'ainder nnf qu '11\ sinuate ; teeth large, acut' : flow, 
ers r>aniculate ; ne'lnncles divHricaU-, with some small scaly iiractcoles ; Tierian- 
the five leaved, five flowered : pluDes 'a>iceolatf. carina'e. — It grows in the knob 
hli's of Kentucky, blossnTpirr- \v' An<r^"'t ; fl- •'•evs wlu'e- 
105 Cacalia pttrat'tlt^r, S' em grooved m," c;o( led ; leaves petiolate ovr'e 
or lanceolate, acute tbick la-Miinte ; flowers c -r\inl>nse. paniculate; peduncles 
elongate: perianthe -five leaved, five flowere' ; i>'m lies oblong, with an undida- 
ted wingon the buck — It trrovs in llie bnvr-tK- -C I-d':'na and Il'inois, Flowers 
vvl ite : it has muf^b afFmity with the f-iresjoiig 
l(-6. Solidasr" sp/iacelaici. Sten striated, pubesce- 1 above; le.^ves peliolate, 
o\ ■-'*'' acute, miicronate, serrated in*he middle, roi'gh n, tlie edges nnd beneath, 
infi i'icr ones snbcnrdate ; flowers sessile, lateral spik'S loose, denseflowered and 
sh':^r", lb( lower i i ^s rt curved, reflexed. the terminal o"*" erect : foiioles of t)»e 
periai the oblong obtuse, lirown ot- sphacelate at the e nd, adpressed, bgules nb- 
tt'^p, hardb longer. — It gi-ow^ oi; the liills of Kect' rky nnd Virginia, rising less 
than two feet ; leaves sm.all. about ;in inch long ; ; flowers of a dirty brownish 
yellov . bl; ssom.ing in \ugust P rennial. 
107 Solidago rtipt-^iiis. Sten- straight, slender, striated, pubescent al^jve ; 
leiv-s crowded, bread, linear, se-ssile. vei-v acute, vitli faint rem 'e servaturcs, 
except at the end, smoot'^ and trirervate ; flowers lateral, ascending, pednnc-la- 
ted ; racemes crowded, naniciilatf'd. ehmgate, flf^vu'ise. bract^ate. divaricate, tlie 
terminal one reflexed ; bracteoles • ubnlate ; fo'io1:>s of the nerianthe loose, subu. 
late, acute ; lignles elongate, nar'-'>w, T'near. — A fine species, growing on tlie 
cl'ifls of tlie Kentnckv river andblosso'Tiing in Hicrnst ; fl^jwers bright yellow ; 
leaves sleider. li'eadth onlv one-tenth 'f'l>e length, '^toni two feet high. It 
lias some aflRnity witli S orhra but is not f,-Y;o|TP-t I bad wrongly called it S pai • 
•vifora in some specimens sent to several botanists. Perennial. 
108. H^Unvthus hivstitiis. flirsnte ; 'ea' cs sin rt'y ]eiolate; lanceolate very 
acute. 'emote, serrate pale benea'.h. s- mcwhat trinervate : flowcs terminal, smIi- 
tary, marly sessile ; fnli'.les "f the periavthe adnressed. ovate, acute, ciliate stria- 
led, brownish — T f^nnd it o]» the knob hills of Kentucky, blossoming in .\ugust-- 
St. m two or three feet high, simple, covered with stiff grey hrirs very much 
or • ded,tliosc of the leaves are more remote. Perennial 
XXII N. G. Prijaxibcs. Pcrianthe 12-16 partite on a single row , foiioles al- 
terrau'lv h^isgcr and shorter ; eitjht sterile rays without o^•arv. Phoranthe cn- 
vex. paleaceous. Florets with a triangidar ov:irv without teeth, tebulose cam- 
panuiate. Seeds triangular, naked, smootli — This is another of the numerous 
gent'.-a having aflinities with Tivdbi-ckm, Jfntihithu /'."fHic'iim a.ni^ Cnreopsis, fiom 
wh'''h -t d'fftrs bv the nakerl seed, c'fc. and from 0'>-'!isi ra by the simple perianf 
•the. T^.:v f> ;ih'>rhntb'e and Iriang'ilar sc ds T';e fo^'-nfMa nrvta P. Cor xrabra 
Fl. l-udo ■ ■■■.-. ) C. palnrnta rtjsea&w^ nurlaia Xulfall w " belong cither to tliisge- 
nus or to Ubdisteca. The name means alternating around. 
