(seq. 54)

3.
Root. Branching perennial
Stem. Annual. Smooth tinged with purple.
Petiole. Long as the leaf, tinged with purple, smooth.
Leaves. Egg shaped, acuminate, serrate 4 to 6 inches
long 2 to 3 wide.
Smooth on both surfaces, veins on the lower prominent,
coloured,
a little cordate at base, the old leaves obscurely 3 lobed.
Stipulae. None.
Peduncles. 2 to 3 inches long, smooth, jointed near the
summit, axillary
and slightly adhering to the petiole.
Calyx. Exterior. 12 leaved, leaves awl shaped, slightly
scabrous.
Interior. 5-cleft. truncate at base. Scabrous segments
acuminate
7-ribbed longer than the ext: calyx.
Corolla. petals large (4 inches long) obovate, strongly ribbed,
smooth on
the outer surface, downy on the inner - pale pink with purple
base
Stamina. Column 2 to 3 inches long white, smooth. Filaments
1/2 long simple
white. Anthers. 2 celled with a white longitudinal rib. Farina
round
white transparent globules.
Pistillum. Style projecting from the column - 5 cleft, hairy.
Stigmas gto flattened
covered with soft silky subviscid hairs —
Capsula — rotundato, ovalis, glabra interne pilosa 5. loc: 5 valv:
Femina anguloso-obovata
pilis brevisimis scabrato, hispidis.
Found by W. Oemler op Georgia flowers from
June to
6.th July 1810

4. Militaris. Will. Hastatus. Mich. Virginicus.
Radix. Fibrosus, perennis.
Caulis. Annuus, Laevis, coloratus.
Petioli. longi, teretes.
Folia. Imprimis ovato-lanceolata, demum Hastata, venosa, serrata
laevia, lobo intermedio elongato, acuminato —
Stipulae.
pedunculi, biunciales, breves, articulati.
Calyx. duplex exterior decaphyllus, foliolis subulatis,
Interior quinquefidus, lobis acuminatis, sub 7 nervosis,
sub laevibus
Corolla. petala (sub 3 unicialia) obovata, leviter costata,
molliter pu-
bescentia, dilute rosea basi rubra —
Stamina. Columna antherifera, biuncialis,
laevi, albus apice quinquefidus
filamenta plerumque furcata alba (2-lin: longi:)
Antherae, biloculares? purperacens
Farina ut in No. 3.
Pistillum. Stylus summitate quinquefidus parce pilosus.
Stigmata
quinque compresso, globosa, sericea, germen superum
angulare.
Pericarpium. Cap: sub lanceolata acuta, laevi
glabri, interne pilosa, quinque valvis, 5 locularis,
Semina. obovata, hispida placentae centrali adnata biseriatim in loculis
disposita.
Habitat juxta Savannah, in humidis : flor : Julio ad —
11.th July 1810.