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PENTANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 
iiicamata. 
pulchra. 
amcena. 
variegata. 
pound, lateral, solitary on large peduncles, nu- 
tant. — Gron. virg. and Pursh. 
A. phytolaccoides, Lyon. 
A. exaltata, "j ^ , 
A. acumniata, J 
Poke-leaved Milk-weed. 
On the high and rocky banks of the Wissahickon. Very 
rare. I have not often found it flowering. Perennial. 
3. A. stem erect, branched and tomentose, leaves 
lanceolate, subtomentose woolly, umbels nume.- 
rous originating by pairs, horns exserted.— 
Willd. 
Icon. Jacq. hort. 1. 107. 
Flesh-coloured Milk-weed. 
About two or three feet high. In marshy meadows and on 
the banks of our waters, common. Perennial. June, July. 
4. A. leaves lanceolate, pubescent underneath, 
sparingly so above ; stem divided above ^ um- 
bels erect in pairs. B. 
A. incarnata, jS pulchra, Willd. 
This is usually set down as a variety of the preceding. I 
cannot however think it so. In similar places as Nos. 1 and 2, 
and 3. Perennial. July. 
5. A. leaf oblong-oval, with acute point, under 
side minutely pubescent, petiole very short; 
umbels terminal, erect; flowers purple; seg- 
ments of the lepanthium ovate-oblong, entire, 
twice the length of the antheridium, central 
process flattened and gibbous, terminating in a 
subulated awn ; margines of the antheridium 
triangularly produced. — 
About two feet high. Flowers fine purple. Very rare. In 
an umbrageous hilly wood on the west side of the Schuylkill, 
about four miles from Market-street bridge. Perennial. July. 
6. A. stem erect, simple, leaves ovate, petiolate, 
rugose, naked ; umbels subsessile, pedicels 
tomentose. — Willd. 
A. hybrida, Mich. 
