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3. P. entirely covered with a whitish pubescence ; virgimca. 
leaves lanceolate-oval, subdenticulate, flowers re- 
mote, scape angular. — Willd. 
Icon, Morris. Hist. 3. s. 8. t. 15. f. 8. 
Virginian Plantane. 
Easily recognised by its white pubescence. In barren fields 
of dry soil ; particularly in Jersey, common. It varies much 
in size, frequently flowering, in the sandy grass-roads of Jer- 
sey, when only an inch and a half high ; and not seldom at- 
taining the height of twelve inches. Biennial From May 
till autumn. 
82. ANDREWSIA. Sprengel. [Anleitung zur Kenntniss der 
Gewachse. p. 4/4.] Gentiarue.J 
Calix 4 parted, appressed. Corolla subcam- 
pan ulate, 4-parted ; segments somewhat 
erect. Stigma thick, glandulous, and part- 
ly bifid. Capsule 1-celled, 2-valved, many- 
seeded, surrounded by the persistent calix 
and corolla. — Nutt. 
1. A. stem somewhat branched, peduncles opposite, panicuiat*. 
the lower ones branched ; segments of the corolla 
oval-acute, scarcely longer than the calix ; style 
very short. — Pursh, 
I Centaurella paniculata, Mich. 
C. autumnalis, Pursh. 
Centaurium autumnale, Pers. vol. 1. p. 137. 
Sagina Virginica, Willd. tom. 1. p. 719. 
Bartonia tenella, Muhl. and Willd. in act. soc. natur, 
cur. Berol. 4. v. 3. 
Bartonia tenella, Pers. vol. 1. p. 141. 
Bartonia paniculata, Muhl, Cat. p. 15. 
Icon. Mich. FI. Bor. Am. t. 12. f. 1. 
Panicle Jlowered Andrewsia. 
This little plant has produced no little confusion among 
botanists, in their various descriptions of it, and the different 
names given to it, as enumerated above • Professor Sprengeb 
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