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Vinca calicima
Stem herbaceous procumbent. Leaves egg-shaped serpentine at the edge; flowers on fruit slalks.
After the grass has been burned this is the first plant that appears, and only to be found in such places. It put forth several stems from one root, which are 4 square, and of a darkish color, and but of a few inches in length
Leaves opposite, thickish, mostly egg shaped, of a dark green color, more or less serpentine at the edge, tapering at the base into leaf stalks, uppermost narrower, and more spear shaped, inclining to be bluntly crenated. Segments of the calyx spear-shaped, upright with 2 similar opposite leafets at the base - Blossom blue.Tube longer than the cup, Germen very smooth, shining, green, conical, seated upon a fleshy base. Style cylindrical Summits 2, expanding, one considerably longer than the other. Conceptaeulum of 2 cells, opening on each side
Mr Brown thinks it is a Ruellia.
April 1802