[+] Crown fleshy, merely 10-crenate, or the crenatures bidentate.
3. G. oblìquus, R. Br. Leaves rounded- to ovate-cordate with a narrow sinus, abruptly acuminate (3–8´ long); umbel many-flowered; corolla in bud oblong-conical; its lobes linear-ligulate (5–6´´ long, 1´´ wide), crimson-purple inside, dull or greenish and minutely pubescent outside.—River-banks, mountains of Penn. and Va., to Ohio and Mo. Flowers said to be fragrant.
4. G. hirsùtus, Michx. Commonly more hairy; leaves with the basal lobes sometimes overlapping; peduncles fewer-flowered; corolla in bud ovate, its lobes elliptical-oblong (3–4´´ long), barely puberulent outside, dull or brownish-purple.—Md. and Va. to Tenn. and Fla.
[+][+] Crown thinner, the border lobed or toothed; leaves as in the preceding.
5. G. Shórtii, Gray. Resembles n. 3, but larger-leaved; corolla oblong-conical in bud, dark crimson-purple, its lobes ligulate (fully 6´´ long); crown about 10-toothed, the alternate teeth thinner, narrower and longer, either emarginate or 2-parted.—Along the mountains, E. Ky. (Short) to N. W. Ga. (Chapman).
6. G. Carolinénsis, R. Br. Flower-bud oblong; corolla brownish-purple; its lobes oblong or linear-oblong (4–5´´ long); crown undulately and very obtusely 5-lobed and with a longer bifid subulate process in each sinus.—From Va. to La., extending north to Ark. and central Mo.
Order 68. LOGANIÀCEÆ. (Logania Family.)
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with opposite and entire leaves, and stipules or a stipular membrane or line between them, and with regular 4–5-merous 4–5-androus perfect flowers, the ovary free from the calyx; a connecting group between Gentianaceæ, Apocynaceæ, Scrophulariaceæ (from all which they are known by their stipules) and Rubiaceæ, from which they differ in their free ovary; our representatives of the family are all most related to the Rubiaceæ, to which, indeed, they have been appended.
[*] Woody twiners; leaves evergreen, stigmas 4.
1. Gelsemium. Corolla large, the 5 lobes imbricated in the bud. Style slender.