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Lysimachia Iutea erecta, Sloane, I. 37. t, 11. f. 1. — Jus- 
siua erecta, Swartz. O'os. 173 — Jussisea erecta, DC. 
Prod. Ill, 5. 
II A B. Damp pastures. 
F L, Spring. 
Stem herbaceous, 2-4 feet in height, erect, branched, 
glabrous, rumscent. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate: pe- 
tioles very short, red. Flowers axillary, solitary, yel- 
low, rather small. Calycine lobes ovato-lanceolate, acu- 
minate, spreading, glabrous. Petals 4, remote, entire, 
deciduous. Stamens 8, shorter than the petals, erect : 
anthers diminutive, whitish. Style very short: stigma 
capitate. Capsule elongated, half the length of the leaf, 
tetragonal, 4-celled, 4-valved : seeds very minute. 
4. Jussiaea octonervia. Eight -nerved Jussicea. 
Herbaceous erect glabrous except the ends of 
the branches which are pubescent, leaves angusto- 
lanceolate acuminate, llowers sessile, calycine 
lobes 4 lanceolate acute, tube cylindrical 8-nerved 
shorter than the floral leaf, petals obovate emar- 
ginate larger than the lobes of the calyx. 
(Enothera assurgens glabra Browne, Jam. 208. — 
CEnothera octonervia, Jacq. Amer. 102. t. 70. — Jussiaea 
octonervia, DC. Prod. 111. 57. 
II A B. Marshy ground : river courses. 
F L. April. 
Stem 3-4 feet in height : branches terete, erubescent* 
glabrous, 6-lineated ; towards the extremity compressed* 
hexangular, and puberulous. Leaves lanceolate with an 
apicula, attenuated at the base, minutely puberulous and 
ciliated, and pellucido-punctulated along the margin : 
petiole short. Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile, rather 
large, yellow, ebracteolated. Calycine lobes lanceolate, 
attenuato-acuminate, 5-7-nerved, minutely puberulous ex- 
ternally, and ciliated. Petals three times larger than the 
calycine lobes, broad-obovate, emargjnate, veined, deci- 
duous. Stamens 8. Style short, thick, half the length 
of the calycine lobes, conical at the base and tetragonal, 
with a villous arched line corresponding to the inset lion 
of each alternate filament: stigma large, capitate. Cap- 
sule 2 inches in length, attenuated, slightly curved and 
