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obtusis. Stamina pistillumque anthophoro, germinis longitudine, suflfulta. Filamenta 10, subsequalia, exerta: 

 AnihercB obloiigo-ovales, Germen ovale, obtusura. Styli tres, petalorma unguibus vix loDgiores. Cupsula 

 membranacea, calyce minor. Semina subtrig^inta. 



Hab. North-West Coast of America. Mr, Menzies. Straits of Juan de Fuca, in lat. 48°. Dr, Scouler, 

 Under the shade of solitary pines, on the low hills of the Oakanagan. Douglas. Portage d* embarras. Slave 

 Piver. Dr. Richardson. — This species is totally unlike any other with which I am acquainted, somewhat 

 resembling a slender state of Saponaria ocymoideSy nor indeed does it accord with any of the divisional 

 characters of the genus given by De Caudolle : for here the peduncles are throughout solitary and single- 

 flowered, and the stem is leafy to the very summit. Dr. Richardson's specimens are smaller than those 

 from the east side of the Rocky Mountains, and have fewer flowers : but they are not otherwise different. 



Tab. XXX. Plants : — natural size. Fig. 1, Flower ; Jig. 2, Stamens, pistil, and their stalk ; fig. 3, Capsule : 

 — magnified. 



Sect. VII L Atocion. Otth MSS. Caulcscentes. Flores corynibosL Calyx clavatus, 10- 



striatus. DC, 



11. S. Armcria; glaberrlma glauca viscosa, caule ramosoj foliis ovato-lanceolatis, flori- 

 bus paniculato-corymbosis, calycibus longe clavatis, petalis obcordatis coronatis. — Linn, 

 Sp. PI, p, 601. Engl, Bot, L 1398. De Cand. Prodr, v, 1, p. 384. 



Hab. Among the plants gathered at Pentanguishene, on Lake Huron, by Dr. Todd: probably intro- 

 duced from Europe, 



2. LYCHNIS. Zinn. 

 Cal. tubulosus, S-dentatus, nudus. Pet 5, unguiculata, fauce saspius coronata, Hmbo 

 plerumque diviso. Stam, 10. Styli 5. Caps, l-S-locuIuris, anthophoro longo vel nullo. 



1. L. apetala; pubescens, caule siniplici, calyce cylindraceo pubescente striato demum 

 inflate et corollam includente, serainibus arillatis. 



*. caule subunifloro brevi. — Linn, Sp. PL p, 626. H. Lapp, t 12, f, 1. PL Dan, t, 303. 



Wahl, Lapp, p. 135. t 7. Rich, in Frankl 1st Journ, ed, 2, App. p. 18. Br, in Parry^s \st 



Voy, App, p, clxx. Hook, in Parry's 2d Voy. App, p, 389. De Cand, Prodr, v, 1. p, 386. 



Cha7n, et Schlecht in Linnma^ v, 1. p. 42. — L. uniflora. " Ledeb, Mem, Petersb, v, 5. 



p. 537." 



^. caule 3-6-floro elongato. — L. apetala; /3. pauciflora. De Cand, Prodr, v, 1. p. 386. 

 L. pauciflora. Fisch. — L. brachypetala. Cat. Hort, BeroL ' 



■ Hab. Labrador {Mr. Morrison) seems to he its most southern latitude in the plains to the east : Fort 

 Norman, (var. /3.,) in the interior. Dr. Richardson. Abundant every where beyond the Arctic Circle, and 

 as far west as Bebring's Straits. On the more elevated parts of the Rocky Mountains, between lat. 52° and 

 bQ^. Dmmmond.—A very variable plant, with a stem scarcely a finger's length in height, to a foot, or a 

 foot and a half, almost naked, or with three or four pairs of linear obtuse leaves, the lowermost ones spathu- 

 late ; with from one to six flowers, which are sometimes erect, oftener drooping ; the petals more 

 or less esserted, varying ia breadth, almost a deep red: the calyces more or less pubescent. When the 

 capsule is ripe it is always erect, it fiUs^he previously inflated calyx, is five-toothed, one-celled, with the 

 seeds arillated, as described by Wahienber^ and as observed by Dr. lUchardson in recent specimens. 



2, L, alpina; glabra, paniculis capitatis, calycibus fructibusque obovatis basi attenuatis, 

 petalis bifidis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis ac utis. —Z.znw. Sp. PL p, 626. Ft, Dan. t, Qb. 

 Pursh, FL Am, v, 1. p, 321. EngL Bot. t 2254. De Cand. Prodr, v, 1. p, 387. 



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