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Pist. Germen oblong, Style thread shaped. Summit blunt.
S. Vess. brussa covered by the calyx, semi-white branched a little on each side towards the base.
Seed, a nut of 2 cells, notched at the end, Nucleus 1 in each cell.
A trailing suffruticose plant. Stem & branches covered with small wart-like tubercles. Leaves spear-shaped, smooth, with a few small teeth towards the end. Flowers axillary on short fruit stalks; calyx with a few small transparent dots. Blossom blue soon falling of. It is not unfrequent to see some of the leaves with glandular dots. According to the numbers of leaves of the calyx, & the segments of the blossom, would induce me to think it belonged to the class Pentandria - I examined several flowers & always found 4 stamens. Fruits dotted, smooth - It may be a considered as one of the rarer plants of this country. Grew at the foot of a large stone on the top of Prospect Hill.
December 31st 1801
Since the above was written I have met with it in several places more backward in the country.