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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.

Rhexia virginica is found wild in company with side-saddle plants 
(Sarracenia purpurea) and cranberries in the low meadows of 
Massachusetts. It is what would be called a bog-plant. It is a pretty, 
low-growing, tuberous-rooted plant blooming in summer and chiefly 
interesting as being one of few species of a genus belonging to a 
family almost wholly composed of shrubby plants from tropical 
countries, such as Centradenia, Pleroma, and Medinella. It increases by 
means of tubers and seeds, and under suitable conditions soon makes 
large clumps. Tubers potted in the autumn and kept in a coldframe force 
nicely in springtime. (T. D. Hatfield.)
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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