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POLYANDRIA DI — PENTAGYNIA. 
Stem shrubby, dichotomous at the summit. Flowers solitary, yellow, 
nearly sessile in the division of the branches. La Marck.encycl. 4. p. 153. 
Grows in Carolina. La Marck. 
Flowers 
9. Galioides. 
H.floribus trigynis, 
E aniculatis, terminal! 
us; stylis coadunatis; 
foliis linearibus, sessi- 
libus, margine revolu- 
tis ; caule suflruticoso. 
Willd. 
Flowers trigynous; 
panicles terminal ; 
styles united; leaves 
linear, sessile, with 
their margins revolute; 
stem somewhat shrub- 
by. 
Sp. PI. 3. p. 1451. Pursh. 2. p. 376. 
Stem about 2 feet high. Branches four angled. heaves fasci- 
culate. Panicles terminal. Petals and Stamens equal and scarcely 
longer than the linear calyx. Pursh. 
Does this really differ from the next species ? 
Grows in sandy moist places. 
Flowers July — September. 
10. Fasciculatum. Mich. 
H. ramulis tetrago- 
nis, foliis confertis 
quasi verticillatim 
fasciculatis, filiformi- 
linearibus,obtusis,ses- 
silibus; pedunculis in 
apice ramulorum axil- 
laribus, 1-3 floris; 
calycibus filiformibus, 
stylis eoadunatis. 
Branches 4-angled; 
leaves crowded as if 
in verticillate clusters, 
filiform, linear, ob- 
tuse, sessile; pedun- 
cles near the summit 
of the branches, axil- 
lary, 1-3 flowered; 
calyx filiform; styles 
united. 
Mich, l.p.,80. 
H. coris. Walt. p. 190. 
II. tenuifolium. Pursh. 2. p. 377* 
Stem shrubby 1 — 2 feet high, with the whole plant glabrous, hemes 
thick, dotted. Flowers axillary, opposite; sometimes the peduncles become 
triflorous with the intermediate flowers sessile* heaves of the calyx 
