boggy or swampy ground, and hence requires a moist soil. It flowers in
August.




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TRADESCANTIA VIRGINICA. VIRGINIAN TRADESCANTIA, OR SPIDERWORT.


_Class and Order._

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Calyx_ triphyllus. _Petala_ 3. _Filamenta_ villis articulatis.
_Capsula_ 3-locularis.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

TRADESCANTIA _Virginica_ erecta lævis, floribus congestis. _Linn. Syst.
Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 314. Sp. Pl. 411._

ALLIUM five moly Virginianum. _Bauh. Pin. 506._

PHALANGIUM Ephemerum Virginianum Joannis Tradescant.

The soon-fading Spiderwort of Virginia, or Tradescant his Spiderwort.