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minal, few-flowered ^ bractes ovate, acuminate, 
I striate, glabrous ; joints of the loment suboval. 
I and Fursh. 
j! H. cuspidatum, Willd. 
I A very large species, often four feet high. Pursh has de- 
I scribed this plant and the H. cuspidatum severally — they are 
j| identical. In open woods and thickets, not uncommon. On the 
il bluff at the V^oodlands, abundant. Flowers large, purplish-red. 
j Perennial. July to September. 
5. H. erect, smoothish ; leaves ternate, ovate, pu- ciliare* 
bescent beneath, ciliated on the margin ; sti- 
pules filiform ; panicle terminal ; joints of the lo- 
ment sepii-orbiculate, hispid. — Willd. 
About two and a half feet high. It is sometimes pubes- 
cent. Flowers small, violet-coloured. On the margins of sandy 
fields in Jersey, every where common. Perennial. July. 
6. H. erect, glabrous ; leaves ternate, oblong- panicuiatum. 
lanceolate or elliptical, smooth ; stipules subu- 
late ; panicle terminal ; joints of the loment (4,) 
rhomboid pubescent. — Willd. 
Icon. Pluk. Mant. t. 432. f. 6. 
From two to three feet high. Leaves of a deep green, 
with a whitish central longitudinal spot. Flowers purple. 
Growing in thickets and woods ; common. Perennial. July. 
7. H. very erect, glabrous, simple ; leaves petio- suictum. 
late, ternate, linear-elliptical, glabrous, reticu- 
late, veined, glaucous beneath ; stipules subu- 
late; panicle terminal, pedunculate, few-flow- 
ered.— PitrsA. 
Flowers small, pale purple. In the woods of Jersey, near 
Woodbury; rare. Perennial. July, August. 
8. H. erect, simple ; leaves long, petiolate, ter- giutinosum, 
nate, subrotund-ovate acuminate; panicle scape- 
form from the base of the stem ; peduncles hairy, 
viscous; joints of the loment oblong-triangular, 
smootish. — Willd. 
