174 SMILACE^. • lUvularia, 



Hab. From Lake Huron to the Saskatchawan. Dr Todd. Dr Richardson, Drummond. N. W. Coast, 

 from the Columbia to lat 58°, Douglas, Tohnie, Br Scouler. Bongard, — Readily distinguished fiom the 

 -preceding by the ciliation, and by the colour of the under surface, by the shorter and not peculiarly distorted 

 pedicels, and by the smaller flowers, with narrower, more erect, and more distinctly placed sepals ; and 

 especially by the bifid anthers and trifid stigma, in which latter particular it seems to connect this genus with 

 the following. 



Tab, CLXXXVIII. B. Fig, 1, Flower ; f, 2, Sepal and stamen ; f, 3, pistil : — magnified, 



3. UVULARIA. Z. 



1. U. lanuginosa (Pers.) ; foliis ovatis acuminatis sessilibus impunctatis ciliatis inferiori- 

 bus amplexantibns junioribus subtus pedunculisque binis terminalibus pubescentibus, 

 perianthii basi acuta foliolis lineari-lanceolatis, stylo glaberrimo. Ker. BoL Mag. L 



1409 Streptopus lanugin. Mx. — Ph, Am, 1. p. 232. Torrey. 1. p, 353. — Uvularia 



puberula. Rich, App, p. 10, cum desc7\ {certe,) an Mich, Am. \. p. 199 ? — ^. major ; foliis 

 majoribus basi cordatis amplexantibus sepalisque obtusissimis distincte reticulatim venosis. 



Hab. Woody country, Lake Winipeg, to the Rocky Mountains. Dr Richardson. Drwmnond, — Columbia 

 River, N. W. Coast. Tohnie. Gairdner, — j3. Between Norway House and Cumberland House Fort. Dr 

 Richardson. — This plant is certainly rather an Uvularia than a Streptopus ; and, besides the following, 

 there are several nearly allied species in Northern India, such as Uvularia Hamiltoniana and U. calcarata, 

 &c. of Wallich. The stem in all is rather tall, dichotomously branched, the leaves broad, distichous, the 

 flowers more or less drooping, more or less clustered, and terminal ; the sepals nectariferous, the anthers 

 oblong obtuse, the stigma trifid. What Michaux*s Uvularia puberula is, I am unable to say, probably, as 

 Dr Richardson conceives, the present plant ; but Michaux says, ** affinis U, sessilifolia" which is certainly 

 not the case with our plant. Sir James Smith confounded it with the following species, from the shores of 

 the Pacific. 



2. U. Smithii s foliis ovatis acuminatis sessilibus nitidis punctatis ciliatis glabris juniori- 

 bus subtus ad nervos puberulis, pedunculis terminalibus binis styloque pubescentibus, 

 perianthii basi lata truncata foliolis lanceolatis. (Tab. CLXXXIX.) — U. puberula. 

 Sm. in Rees. Cycl. {not Mich.) 



Hab. Nutka Sound. Mr Menzies. Dr Scouler, — This appears to be a very distinct species in the flowers, 

 of which we find a remarkable approach to the U. calcarata, where the base of each sepal forms a nectari- 

 ferous spur, while in ours it forms an angle, thus giving the peculiar truncated appearance to the base of the 

 flower. The leaves are shining, very pellucid, beautifully reticulated with transverse veins, and marked all 

 over, and on both sides, with small brown dots. It is probably rare. I possess but one specimen from each 

 of the above travellers ; but I must observe, that the species of this genus appear liable to much variation ; 

 and some of the western specimens of U, lanuginosa are a little more obtuse than usual at the base, and a 

 little downy at the lower part of the stj'le. 



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Tab. CLXXXIX. Fig, 1, Portion of a leaf;/. 2, Sepal and stamen; /. 3, ThiW '.^magnified. 



3. U, perfoliala (L.); foliis perfoliatis ellipticis cum acuminulo, flora terminali soli- 

 lario pendulo, perianihio campanulato intus papilloso, antheris aculis. Snu Ex, Fl. \, p, 

 95. L 49. Ph. Am. 1. p, 231. Bot Mag, t. 955.— U. perfoliata, minor. Mx. Am. 1. p. 199. 



Hab, Canada. Pursh. — I possess garden specimens of this species, which appear distinct, and others from 

 Boston, United States ; but I have received none from Canada, or any part of British N. America. 



