ERICACEÆ. LXIV. Prerospora. 
York. Plant covered with brownish viscid hairs. Stems 
brownish red or purple, furnished with lanceolate scales at the 
base. Peduncles filiform, nutant. Corollas white, with a red 
border. 
Andromeda-flowered Pterospora. Fl. July. Pl. 1 to 2 
feet. 
Cult. The plant is not cultivatable. 
XXXVIII. SCHWEINI’TZIA (named after the Rev. 
Schweinitz, author of a monograph of the American species of the 
genus Carex, published in Annals of the Lyceum of New 
York). Ell. fl. car. vol. 2. Nutt. gen. amer. addend. 
Lin. syst. Decándria, Monogynia. Calyx 5-leaved ; segments 
N 
LXV. ScHwEINITZIA. 867 
concave, equal with the corolla. Corolla campanulate, with a 
5-cleft border, and a 5-cleft nectarium at the base of the corolla. 
Stamens 10. Anthers adnate to the filaments, 1-celled, opening 
from the inverted base by 2 naked pores. Stigma subglobose, 
closed, internally 5-cleft. Capsule 5-celled.? Seeds? A 
small, herbaceous, and probably parasitical plant, destitute of 
proper leaves and verdure. Scapes scaly. Flowers terminal, 
aggregate, sessile, bracteate ; bracteas large. 
1 S. Carontnia‘na (Ell. fi. car. vol. 2.) 
of North Carolina, in rich shady woods, 
scented, reddish-white. 
Carolina Schweinitzia. FI. Feb. March. 
Cult. The plant is not cultivatable. 
©. H. Native 
Flowers sweet- 
Pl. 4 foot. 
END OF VOL. III. 
GILBERT & RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, 
ST. JOHN’S SQUARE. 
