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Dodecatheon Meadia. Mead’s Dodeca- 
theon, or American Cowslip. 
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C/rt/S* Order. 
Pentandria Mon’OGYNIA. 
Generic Character. 
Corolla rotata, reflexa. Stamina tubo infidentia. Capfula uni- 
locularis, oblonga. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
DODECATHEON Meadia. Lin. Syjl. Vegetab. p. 163. Sp. 
Plant, p. 163. 
MEADIA Catejb. Car. 3. p. 1. 1 . 1. Lrew. Ebret. t. 12. 
AURICULA urfi virginiana floribus boraginis inftar roftratis, 
eyclaminmn more reflexis. Pink. aim. 62. t. 79. 
f. 6. 
This plant grows fpontaneoufly in Virginia and other parts of 
North America, from whence, as Miller informs us, it was fent 
by Mr. Banifter to Dr. Compton, Lord Bifhop of London, in 
whofe curious garden he firft law it growing in the year 1709. 
It is figured by Mr. Catefby, in his Natural Hiftory of Caro- 
lina, among the natural produ&ions of that country, who be- 
ftowed on it the name of Meadia , in honour of the late 
Dr. Mead, a name which Linnaeus has not thought proper to 
adopt as a generic, though he has as a trivial one. 
“ It flowers the beginning of May, and the feeds ripen in 
July, foon after which the ftalks and leaves decay, fo that the 
roots remain inatlive till the following fpring. 
** It is propagated by offsets, which the roots put out freely 
" when they are in a loofe moift foil and a fiiady fituation ; 
the beft time to remove the roots, and take away tfie offsets, 
r is in Auguft, after the leaves and ftalks are decayed, that 
they may be fixed well in their new fituation before the froft 
comes on. It may alfo be propagated by feeds, which the 
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