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Rh externally margined with light yellowish-brown. Tail-feathers dusky, margined externally with yellowish-brown. The under parts pale yellowish-grey, the breast, sides, and throat, spotted with brownish-black.

Length 5 inches, bill along the ridge $1/3$, along the gap nearly $1/2$; tarsus $2/3$, middle toe $2/3$, hind toe the same.


 * , Pursh, Fl. Amer. vol. i. p. 139. Fig. 1. of the Plate.—, Linn., Juss.

Stem tetragonal, all the leaves opposite, ovate, acuminate. Flowers rich carmine, in a terminal spike. This plant is perennial, flowers in the summer months, and grows in rich soil by the margins of woods, in the Middle States. The roots are used as a vermifuge.


 * , Pursh, Fl. Amer. vol. i. p. 130. Fig. 2. of the Plate.—, Linn., Juss.

This species is characterized by its erect, feeble stem, its linear-lanceolate leaves, lax fastigiate panicle, twin pedicels, oboval segments of the corolla, pubescent curved tube, and long subulate calycine teeth. The corolla is rose-coloured, but varies in tint, being sometimes nearly white, and sometimes deep red. It is perennial, flowers in the summer months, and occurs in the Middle and Atlantic States.