GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. 
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Peduncles solitary. Corolla long, somewhat tubular, brown, the border 
three-cleft, equal. Anthers six, beneath the stigmas. Style short, stigma 
six-parted. 
Grows on the mountains, Pennsylvania to Georgia. 
Flowers June. Pursh. 
2. Tomentosa. Sims, 
' 
A. caule volubili; fo- 
liis rotundato cordatis, 
subtus tomentosis; co- 
rolla villosa, limbo tri- 
lido, subaequali. 
Stem voluble; leaves 
nearly round, cordate, 
tomentose underneath; 
corolla villous, the bor- 
der 3-cleft, nearly e- 
qual. 
Nutt. 2. p. 199. 
A. Hirsuta, Muhl. Cat. p. 81. 
Stem ascending to the summits of the loftiest trees, cordate, nearly round, 
tomentose underneath, strongly veined, when young entirely covered as well 
as the young branches and corolla with a dense villous tomentum. Peduncles 
solitary, without bracteal leaves. Corolla ascendant, greenish yellow, the 
border three-cleft, the orifice oblique, the margin rugose, dark purple. Stig- 
mas three. Anthers immersed in the style. Nutt. 
Grows on the mountains of Carolina. Nutt. 
Flowers — - 
3. Serpentaria. Lin. 
j A. foliis cordatis, 
oblongis, acuminatis; 
caule flexuoso; pedun- 
culis radicalibus; co- 
rollas labio lanceolato. 
Leaves cordate, ob- 
long, acuminate; stem 
flexuous; peduncles 
radical; lip of the co- 
rolla lanceolate. 
Sp. pi, 4. p. 159. Walt. p. 223. Nutt. 2. p. 162. Pursh, 2. p. 569. 
Nutt. 2. p. 200. 
Root perennial, composed of many filiform fibres, pungent and aromatic. 
Stem six to eight inches high, herbaceous, pubescent, erect, geniculate and 
knotty at base, as if formed of the remains of older stems. Leaves few, ob- 
long lanceolate, slightly acuminate, a little hairy, cordate at base. Floioers 
few, at the base of the stem, laying on or sometimes under the surface of the 
