Rhexia
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Rhexia (Greek, rupture, referring to its supposed properties of healing). Melastomaceae. Meadow Beauty. Low perennial often bristly herbs suitable for border and wild-garden planting. Leaves opposite, sessile or short-petioled: fls. terminal, solitary or cymose; calyx-tube urn-shaped, adherent to the ovary below, and continued above it, persistent, 4-cleft at the apex; petals 4, oblique, falling early: stamens 8: caps. 4-celled, with 4- to many-seeded placentae.—About 12 species, N. Amer.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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