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exactly resembling the leaves of the plant. Stamens rather longer than 
the corolla, both much longer than the calyx. Petals yellow, oblong, 
oval. Styles 3, firmly united. Capsules 3 ceiled, 3 valved. 
Grows in wet pine barrens. 
Flowers June — August. 
11 . Rosmarinifolium? 
H. ramulis tereti- 
bus ; foiiis lineari-lan- 
ceolatis, acutis, basi 
attenuatis, subfascicu- 
latis ; panicuia eiong- 
ata; pedunculis in a- 
pice ramorum axillar- 
ibus, trifloris ; stylis 
coadunatis. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 1450? 
H. fasciculatum. Sp. pi. 3. p. 1452. Pursh. 2. p. 376 . 
Stem shrubby, 2 — 3 feet high, with its numerous branches terete, smooth, 
and generally coloured. Leaves shining, and as in most of the species, with 
the margins revolute, and the surface sprinkled with pellucid dots. Panicle 
very ornamental from the number of its flowers on its compoundly tri- 
chotomous branches. Calyx with its segments like the leaves, linear-lan- 
ceolate. Corolla yellow. Petals ohovate, larger than the calyx. Fila- 
ments numerous, much shorter than the corolla. Styles 3, at first united, 
expanding after the flower decays. Capsule 3 celled, with the angles 
rounded. 
I have found some difficulty in determining this plant. It is evidently 
the H. fasciculatum of Willdenow, but Willdenow has certainly mistaken 
the H. fasciculatum of Michaux, which he had probably already descri- 
bed as the H. galioides, This plant was considered by Dr. Muhlenberg 
as the H. rosmarinifolium of LaMarck, and as the name is peculiarly ap- 
propriate, I have retained it. 
It has always appeared to me remarkable that this, which in the low 
country of Carolina and Georgia, is the most common of our frutescenf 
species, should have been overlooked by both Walter and Michaux. 
Grows in damp soils. 
Flowers June— August 
Branches terete ; 
leaves liaear-lanceo* 
late, acute, tapering 
at base, somewhat 
clustered; panicle long; 
peduncles near the 
summit of the branch- 
es, axillary, 3-Hower- 
ed ; styles united. 
