Medeola.-] MELANTHACEiE. 1 79 



folk Sound, and from Sitcha, is merely a small flowered variety. The original V. parviflorum is a Carolina 

 plant. Agam, the F. angmtifolmm of Pursh (foliis longissimis linearibus carinatis), of which the ori-inal 

 specimens are from the high mountains of Virginia and Carolina, that author has, in his Suppl., considere°d to 

 be also a native of Canada, because he found a specimen in Sherard's herbarium, marked " Phalangium 

 Canadenser &c. ; but this, I fear, is not alone sufficient authority for introducing it into a Flora of British 

 America. I have a Mexican Veratrum ( F. officinale, Klotzsch, mst.) which, in the foliage, welfagrees with 

 PursVs F. angustifolia. Perhaps the F. viride is not really distinct from the European F album, Gawler 

 says the sepals are broader; but they vary in the American plant considerably. 



6. TOFIELDIA. Iluds, 



1. T. palustris {Ylxxik.) \ racemo ovato denso, floribus fructibusqiie erectis, pedicellis 

 ad basin tribracteolatis, scapo nudo vel raro inferne subunifoliato. E. BoL t 536. 

 Gray, l. c. p. 134 — T; borealis. Wahl.—T. pusilla? Ph. Am. 1. p. 246. ■ 



Hab. Labrador (Dr Morrison) , and Hudson's Bay to Bear Lake Rivers ; in the north, and to the Rocky 

 Mountains. Dr Richardson. Drummond. Lake Mistassins? PA.— Flowers pale yellowish-white. 



2. T. coccinea (Rich. App, p. H); racemo spicato ovato-globoso, floribus subsessili- 

 bus, fructibus arete reflexis involucratis, involucro triphyllo, scapo bi-trifoliato folio unico 

 supra medium. Hook, et Am. in BoL of Beech, p. 130. /. 30 (29 in text, by mistake). 

 Gray. L c. p. 135.— T. borealis. Cham, hi Linncua, 6. p. 584 {no7i WahL),—^. major; 

 pedicellis longioribus involucri foliolis alternis. 



Hab. a. Barren grounds from lat. 64=* to the shores of the Arctic Sea ; about Jasper's Lake on the Rocky 

 Mountains, and on the west coast, north of lat. 08°, to Unalaschka. Mr Menzies. Nelson. Dr Richardson, 



Drumrnond. Chamisso.—{i. Mackenzie River. Dr Richardson This plant is readily known from the 



preceding by its more flaccid leaves and leafy scape ; by the sessile flowers, deeply tinged with red, and the 

 larger bracteas, which form a complete involucre beneath the flower ; and, above all, by the singularly de- 

 flexed dark-purple fruit. I possess it from Siberia, from Pallas' herbarium, where it is mixed with T. palus- 

 tris, though most assuredly a totally distinct species. The var.' with more elongated pedicels, of which only 

 two specimens were gathered by Dr Richardson on the Mackenzie River, must not be confounded with T. 

 cernuat Sm;, a plant of Gmelin, which has the flowers drooping but the fruit erect ; but it is the same with 

 " S, cernua ? Sm." of Turczaninow, in Herb, nostr., gathered "in aipe Kawokta," in Siberia, 



3. T. glutinosa (Ph.); racemo coarctato, pedicellis 1-3-nis basi tribracteatis superne 

 calyculo seu involucro monopbyllo obscure trifido sub flore, scapo parce folioso apice 

 pedicellisque glanduloso-scabris. (Tab. CXCL)— P-^. Ain. I. p. 246. Sm. I. c. p. 246, 

 Gray. I c. p. 138.— Narthecium glutinosum. Mx. Am. 1. p. 210. L 8. /. 2. 



Hab. Throughout Canada, to Hudson's Bay and Bear Lake, Dr Richardsoii, and to the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. Drummond. N. W. Coast. Menzies. Stikine and Sitcha. Bongard, Tolmie.~l doubt if the 

 T.puhens of the United States be really different from this, except in the less viscid or not viscid glands. 



Tab, CXCL Fig. 1, Flowers : — magnified ; f. 2, Raceme of capsules: — nal, size ; f. 3, Young cap- 

 sule ; f. 4, Single ripe capsule : — mag?tified. 



7. MEDEOLA. L. 



L M. Virginica. L — Ph. Am. \. p. 244, Bot Mag. t. 1316. — Gyromia. Nutt. Torr. 



Hab. Canada. New Brunswick, Mr Kendal. 



