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520 ADDENDA TO CAPTAIN ERANKLIN^S NARRATIVE.

Phacelia parviflora, Pursh, Am. i, p. 140. Polemonium dubium, Linn.

EUTOCA FRANKLINII, Tab. 27. l

Eutoca erecta, foliis pinnatifidis bipinnatifldisve, ovulis placentae singula? viginti pluribus.

Had. Abundantly amongst trees that have been de- stroyed by fire, on the banks of the river Mississippi.

Herba annua, erecta, pubescens, 6-10-uncialis. Radix descendens subramosa. Caalis simplicissimus teres cavus, crassitie penna? columbinae, fuscus, pilis acutis tenuibus patulis pubescens. Folia radicalia conferta, caulina alterna; omnia petiolata exstipulata pinnatifida (in plantis proce- rioribus bipinnatifida), circumscriptione lanceolata, laciniis lanceolatis integerrimis, inferioribus quancloque dentatis incisisve, plana utrinque viridia pilisque caulinis similibus pubescentia. Petioli foliis breviores super canaliculati basi parum dilatata semiamplexanti. Sjncte racemosa? breves secundae, ebracteatae, novelise arcuato-recurvae, ap- proximate?, terminates et e summis alis.

Calyx monophyllus, aequalis, quinquepartitus sinubus edentulis, foliaceus, persistens : lacinice lineares acutiuscula? plana?, trinervia? nervis lateralibus margini approximatis medio venoso, hirsuta? pilis acutis strictis marginalibus cre- brioribus longioribusque.

Corolla monopetala, hypogyna, regularis, subcampanulata, calyce sesquilongior, glabra limbo extus pube rara con- sperso, ceerulea immaculata, siccatione saepius albescens, decidua. Tubus intus nervis 15, ternatim cum staminibus alternantibus, lateralibus ternationis singula? infra medium auctis membranula lineari imberbi apice subtruncato medium fere tubi attingenti, basi ad or turn filamenti respondent is proclucta et cum eodem fere confluenti, versus nervum medium conniventi. Faux nuda. Limbus tubo brevior, 5 partitus, aequalis, patens, lobis subrotundis in- tegerrimis plains, venosis venis anastomosantibus, aesti-

1 [See note at vol. i. p. 187.]

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