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TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA- 
1. Pentaphylla. 
C. floribus gynan- 
dris ; foiiis quinatis ; 
caule inermi. 
Flowers gynan- 
drous; leaves quinate; 
stem unarmed. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 564. Pursh 2. p. 441. Nutt. 2. p. 73. 
Root annual. Stem 2 — 3 feet high? sometimes branching, glabrous, vi- 
scid. Leaves on petioles, 3 — 5 inches long, Leaflets lanceolate, very fine- 
ly and irregularly serrulate, upper leaves sometimes undivided. Flowers 
in long terminal racemes. Peduncles 1 — 2 inches long. Calyx small, 
(5 leaved. Nutt.) Petals obovate or nearly round, white, with very long 
capillary claws. Germ linear, supported by a pedicel much longer than 
the petals, to the middle of which 6 linear anthers are attached on long fi- 
laments. Style very short. Stigma capitate. Capsule d — 3 inches long,, 
linear, on a long footstalk. Seeds few, and distant in each pod. 
Grows in cultivated grounds, and about buildings. 
Flowers May — July. 
2. CuNEIFOLIA. Muhl. 
C. foiiis simplici- 
bus, subsessilibus, ob- 
ovatis ovalibusque, 
basi cuneatis ; flori- 
bus hexandris, termi- 
nali-fasciculatis. 
Leaves simple, 
nearly sessile, obo- 
vate, cuneate at base; 
flowers hexandrous in 
terminal clusters. 
Muhl. Cat. p. 61. Pursh. 2. p. 73. 
Root annual? Stem 12 — 18 inches high, erect, much branched near 
the summit, glabrous. Leaves about an inch long, slightly retuse, entire. 
Flowers in clusters at the summit of the branches. Peduncles 1 — 6 lines 
long. Calyx very minute. Corolla obovate or nearly round, supported 
.on long slender claws, white, tinged with purple. Stamens rather longer 
than the corolla, inserted just within, and sometimes between the petals. 
Anthers linear. Germ stipitate. Style 0. Stigma obtuse. Pod near- 
ly 2 inches long, filiform and very slender. 
Grows very abundantly in the dry ridges between Milledgeville and the 
Chatahouchie. 
Flowers June— August. 
