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viscosissima* 
ICOSANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 
225. CUPHEA. Brown. Jacq. hort. 2. p. 83. (^Salicarice.) 
Calix ventricose, tubular, 6 to 12-toothed, 
unequal. Petals 6, generally unequal, in- 
serted upon the calix. Capsule with the 
calix bursting longitudinally, 1 -celled. 
Seeds few, lenticular, imbricated. — JYutt. 
1. C. viscose ; leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate-ob- 
long, flowers 12-androus, lateral, solitary, very 
shortly pedunculated.— IFiM. Sp. pi. 2. p. 870. 
and Pursh. 
Balsainona Pinto, Vandell. fasc. t. 3. (Pursh.) 
Lythrum Cuphea, L. supp. 249. 
L. petiolatum, Willd. Sp. PI. 2. p. 867. 
Icon. Jacqu. hort. 2. t. 177. 
Clammy Cuphea. 
From ten to fifteen inches high. Flowers deep purple. 
Petioles reddish-brown. Whole plant viscous, and covered in 
the autumn by the pappus of Syngenesious plants, which is 
wafted by the winds in contact with the viscous matter of the 
plant and there retained. This plant covers whole fields near 
Lancaster. Near this city it is very rare. On the margins of the 
roads through the woods, west of Belmont. Annual. Sep- 
tember. 
ORDER II. DIGYNIA. 
226. AGBIMONIA. Gen. pi. 830. (iJosoee^e.) 
Calix inferior, 5-toothed, caliculate, exter- 
nally setigerous about the middle; setae 
uncinate. Petals 5, inserted upon the ca- 
lix. Seeds 2, inclosed in the base of the 
calix. — 
