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SAROTHRA HYPERICOIDES.
GROUND PINE.
Pentandria Trigynia, Linn. Caryophillese.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calix 5-parted, connivent. Petals 5, linear-oblong. Capsule oblong, acute, coloured,
1-celled,3-valved, margin of the valves seminiferous.
SYNONYMS.
Sarothra hypericoides, Nutt. Gen Am. pi. vol. i. p 204.
S. gentianoides, Willd.
H ypericum sarothra, Mich.
H. nudicaule, Walt.
An annual plant, varying in height from three to eight inches, very
much branched, so as to form a dense cluster resembling a bunch of
pine leaves, hence the common name, stem and branches four-sided.
Leaves very minute, scale-like, erect, embracing the stem, opposite,
obtuse. Root fibrous, stem simple, for about one or two inches from
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