Tab. 5395. 

 LEWISIA REDIVIVA. 



Spat'lum, or Reviving Lewisia. 



Nat. Ord. Portulace.e. — Polyandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx ampins, snbseptempartitus, segmentis interioribus late 

 obovatis 2 exterioribus oppositis bracteiformibus omnibus herbaceo-membra- 

 naceis. Petala numerosa, ante anthesin contorta, subinaequalia, patentia. Sta- 

 mina numerosa, hypogyna; fdamenta gracilia ; antheris extrorsis, erectis, linearibus. 

 Ovarium subglobosnm ; stylus columnaris; stigmata 8, lineari-filiformia, pubes- 

 centia. Capsula globoso-membranacea, unilocularis, basin versus circumscissa. 

 Semina numerosa, erecta, funiculata, receptaculo carnoso centrali inserta, al- 

 bumine farinaceo ; embryo horizontalis, curvatus, externus. — Hcrba carnosa, 

 boreali-occidentali- Americana. Padix fusiformis, lignosa, edulis ; foliis radiculi- 

 tis, carnosis, teretibus, glaucis, stellato-patentibus ; scayHsbrevibns, \-bifloris, brac- 

 teolis subulatis involucratis ; flore maximo pulcherrime roseo. 



Lkwisia rediviva. 



Lewisia rediviva. Ph. Tl. Am. v. 2. p. 368. Hoole. Bot. Misc. p. 344. t. 70, 



and Book and Am. in Bot. Beech Toy. Suppl. p. 334. t. 86. Torr. and Cray, 



Fl. N. Am. ». 2. p. 177. 

 Xnr.Jlore albo. 

 Lewisia alba. Kellog, in Proc. of Calif. Acad, of Nat. Sc. 1861. t. 36. 



We have at length the satisfaction of giving a figure, from a 

 living plant, of Lewisia rediviva, or Spaflum of the Indians of 

 North-west America, of which hitherto little has been known, 

 save what is derived from dried specimens : and in so succulent 

 a plant the distinguishing characters are very apt to be fallacious. 

 The specific name, " rediviva" is given by Pursh in consequence 

 of the root, long preserved in the herbarium, and apparently 

 dead, having been planted, revived in a garden in Philadelphia. 

 We have ourselves had dried specimens, preserved two or more 

 years in the herbarium, still sending up fresh crops of leaves. 

 The specimen from which our figure was taken at Kew, is one 

 of many which, when gathered with a view of being preserved for 

 the herbarium, in British Columbia, by Dr. Lyall, R.N., of the 

 Boundary Expedition, was immersed in boiling water on ac- 

 count of its well-known tenacity of life. More than a year and a 



august 1st, 1863. 



