MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 659 
dies finally dichotomous. The flowers solitary in the divisions of the um- 
bel, small, on peduncles one to two lines long. Fruit tuberculate. 
This species approaches very nearly to the E. Helioscopia of Europe, 
although its roughened fruit and the lanceolate leaves of the umbel may serve 
to distinguish it. It is, I think, certainly indigenous. 
Found in damp clay soils near the Horse-shoe Bridge, Ashepoo; on 
Hutchinson’s Island, opposite Savannah, 
Flowers May. 
13. Corollata. Lin. 
E. urabelia 5-fida, 
3-fida, dichotoma; foliis 
floralibus foliisque ob- 
longis, obtusis; involu- 
cri laciniis interioribus 
petaoideis, obovatis. 
Umbel 5-cleft, 3- 
cleft, dichotomous; flo- 
ral leaves and those of 
the stem oblong, ob- 
tuse; interior segments 
of the involucrum re- 
sembling petals, obo- 
vate. 
Sp. pi. 2. p. 916. Walt. p. 145. Mich. 2. p. 210. Pursh, 2. p. 607- 
Nutt. 2. p. 227. 
Root perennial. Stem herbaceous, about 2 feet high, terete, a little hairy, 
rarely branched. Leaves alternate, oval, glabrous on the upper surface, 
paler and sprinkled with hairs underneath, on petioles 1—2 lines long. 
Flowers in a terminal umbel, each floret solitary in the divisions of the stem, 
on peduncles 3* — 4 lines long. Feta, loid segments of the involucrum more 
conspicuous than usual in this genus, obovate, white. Fruit glabrous. 
This species varies much in the size and breadth of its leaves. I have 
found it also with 5 rays to the umbel. The following, if no more than a 
variety, deserved to be noticed. 
Var. Angustifolia. 
Leaves 3 — 4 inches long, linear-lanceolate, sessile as in the common va- 
riety, paler and hairy underneath. Umbel 3-fid, rays elongated, the upper 
branches dichotomous. Floieers few, small, thinly scattered near the sum- 
mit of the branches. 
Very common, preferring dry soils. The variety Angustifolia Was col- 
lected by Mr. Caradeux in St. Thomas, near Charleston. 
Flowers May — September. 
