_Class and Order._

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Corolla_ infundibuliformis. _Capsula_ didyma. 2-locularis,
polysperma.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

SPIGELIA _Marilandica_ caule tetragono, foliis omnibus oppositis. _Lin.
Syst. Veg. p. 197._ _Mant. 2. p. 338._

LONICERA _Marilandica_, _Spec. Pl. ed. 3. p. 249._

PERICLYMENI virginiani flore coccineo planta marilandica spicata erecta
foliis conjugatis. _D. Sherard Raii Suppl. p. 32._ _Catesb. Carol.
11. t. 78._

ANTHELMIA Indian pink. _Dr. Lining. Essays Physical and Literary, Vol.
1. and Vol. 3._

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This plant, not less celebrated for its superior efficacy in destroying
worms[A], than admired for its beauty, is a native of the warmer parts
of North America; the older Botanists, and even LINNÆUS, at one
time considered it as a _honeysuckle_, but he has now made a new genus