'SMIBILE X & m
RHEXIA MARIANA.
MARYLAND RHEXIA.
( Generic. Character, £s?c. fc?c. see page 13 o f this work.)
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Hirsute; leaves lanceolate, acute at each end, 3-nerved; calix tubular, nearly glabrous.
Mich.
A p e r e n n ia l plant, from one to two feet high; stem erect,
sub-terete, hirsute, channelled. Leaves ovate, lanceolate, serrate,
ciliate. Flowers situated in the fork and termination of the branches.
Calix urceolate, purplish, slightly hirsute with stellated hairs, persistent,
including the capsule. Segments long, reflexed. Petals fugacious,
irregularly ovate, or oval, hairy externally, peach-blossom
red, or white dilated with rose-red. Filaments as in R. Virginica,
inserted into the rim of the calix. Anthers yellow, long, slightly
arcuate, opening above. Style larger than the stamens. Seeds numerous,
attached umbilically to a central receptacle. Grows in
