m/dropeltis.] PODOPHYLLE^. 3 j 



tri-quinqueloba, tenuia, membranacea, pallide viridia, margine uervisque sub lente pilosa, iutegerrima, sed 

 subsinuoso-uiidata, nervosa, ad basin non raro tri-quinquenervia. Scopus solitarius, vel duo ex eadem radice, 

 subpedalis, erectus, gracilis, simplex, omnino glaber, apice florifer. Flores in racemum laxum dispositi, 

 pedicellis basi minute bracteatis, uni-biuncialibus, recnrvibus, simplicibus vel furcatis, uno vel duo, rara tres 

 ex eoJcm puucto, apice incrassatis clavatis. Calyx: Sepala 8, exteriora parva, interiora seusim raajora; 

 omnia ovalia, concava, pallida, membranacea, tenuissiraa, ante Uorescentiam decidiia. Petala 6, inaimiiter 

 reflexa, oblongo-obovata, apice cucullata, alba, intus appendice spathulata valde concava, flava aucta. Stamina 

 6, recta, petalis oppositis: 7^27amento Hnearia, plana, extus minute glandulosa: ^nZ/icrtc louge mucronatae, 

 loculis laterallbus, valvulis debisccutibus. Pistillum: Gemien vel ovarium oblongum, glandulosum, glandulis 

 rufis, stylo subaeque longo attenuatum: Stigma capitatum, ad apicem perforatum, subobliqnum, Ovula 

 unilatcralia, in dnas lineas imbricatas parallelas approximatas oblique inserta, 



Hab. Nortb-West coast of America. Mr, Menzies. Common in shady pine woods at Fort Vancouver 

 on the Columbia, Puget Sound, and North Cilifomia. Dovglas. Scoulcr, — This interesting plant has too 

 long Iain undescribed in our Herbaria, having been discovered by Mr. Menzies during the Voyage of Dis- 

 covery of Captain Vancouver. It has again been gathered by Mr. Douglas and Dr. Scouler, and, as far as 

 I know, by no other Botanists. Notwithstanding that the number of the parts of the flower differs from 

 that of our Europaean Epimedium alpinmjij yet, in all that is essential as regards genus, there is the most 

 perfect accordance. The appendages, or nectaries, to the petals, are mucli longer and less inflated. IVobaWy 

 some of the smaller sepals would be considered by De Caudolle as bractese, for be looks upon the two outer 

 ones in B. alpinum as such, but they have all the same insertion, and gradually pass from the smaller into the 

 larofer size of the innermost ones. 



Tab. XIII. Fiff, I, I, Plant, nat size; ^g. 2, Bud;y?y. 3, Flower;^//. 4, Stamen;^//. 5, Pistil ;^^. G, do.; 

 Jig. 7, The same, with the germen laid open to show the ovules,* Jiffj 8, Ovule ; — magnified. 



Ord. IV. PODOPHYLLE^. DC. 



TrIB. I. PoDOPHYLLEiE VERiE. DC. 



1. PODOPHYLLUM. Zim. 



CaL 3-sepalus. Petala Q-^. Stam, 12-18, Ovarium I, ovatum. Stigma subsessiie, 

 ' peltatum. Bacca subcarnosa, l-locularis, indehiscens. Semina plurima, placentJE lateral! 

 unicae carnoste latse adfixa. — Herba perennis, foliis peltato-lohatis oppositis, floribus soli- 

 tariis albis, habitu Meconopsidis. DC. 



1. P. peltatum; caule erecto bifolio unifloro, fructlbus ovatis. — Linn. Sp. PL p. 723, 

 Mich. Am. v. 1. p. 309. Pursh, Fl Am. v. 2. p. 366. Bigel Fl. Bast ed. 2. p. 215. Elliott, 

 Carol. V. 2. p. 14. Bot. Mag. t. 1819. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 111. 



Hab. Near Montreal, Mrs. Perdval. Mr. Cleghom. Lake Huron. Dr. Todd. — This plant flowers very 

 early in the year, in March and April, and the fruit ripens in May, whence the name of May-apple, given to 

 it by the settlers in North America. The root is medicinal, and employed in lieu of Jalap. 



Trie. IL Hydropeltideje. DC> 



2. HYDROPELTIS. Mich. 



Cal. 3-4 sepalus. Petala 3-4. Stam. 18-36. Ovaria 6-18. Semina intra pericarpium 

 pendulum, ovato-globosum. — Herba aquatica, undique gelatina viscosissima lubrica, radici- 

 bus fibrosis humo adfixa. DC. 



