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 Galax Aphylla. Carolina Galax. 



Oafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Charafler. 



Cal. i-phyllus5-partitus. Cor. 5 -petal a. Neclarium tubulofum 

 ftaminiferum. Filam. 5 fertilia, 5 caftrata. Cap/. 3-locularis, 

 3-valvis. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



GALAX aphylla. Linn. Sp. PL 289. Reichard. 1. 562. lYilld. 



Sp. PL 1. 1146. 

 ERYTHRORHIZA rotundifolia. Michaux Flor. Bor-Am. 2. 



p. 35. /. 36. 

 BLANDFORDIA cordata. Bot. Repof. 343. 

 VITICELLA. MitcheL Gen. 24. 

 BELVIDERE. Gron. Virg. 25. 

 PYROLA floribus albis fpicatis, caule aphyllo ; folio fub- 



rotundo, ferrato, pediculo longiffimo infidenti. Clayt. 



Virgin, n. 31. 



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Desc. Root creeping, according to Michaux of a deep 

 red colour throughout. Leaves all radical, petioled, fubpeltate, 

 round-heart-fhaped, crenate-dentate with glandular teeth, rigid 

 lilft: the frons of an adiantum, ftrongly veined underneath, 

 margins coloured blackifh red by age. Petiole ere8, rounded, 

 3 — 6 inches long, inferted into the under furface of the leaf 

 very near the bafe. Scape leaflefs, a foot and half high, riling 

 from a fquamofe egg-fhaped bud or kind of bulb, rounded, 

 naked except a few minute fubulate fcales towards the bafe. 

 Flowers fmall, milk-white, in a fimple fpike on very mort 

 pedicles, with a fingle very fmall bra&c below each. Calyx 

 one-leafed, five-cleft, coloured at the points of the fegments, 

 perfiftent. Corolla five-petaled, or at leaft feparating by a very 

 fmall force, though frequently falling off together with the 

 ne&ary flightly attached at the bafe. Petals lanceolate, fub- 

 emarginate, attached to the receptacle. Netlary tubular, half 

 the length of the petals, divided at the upper part into ten 

 fegments : five longer, erecl, dilated at the points, without 

 anthers ; five fhorter, bearing as many fuborbicular yellow an- 

 thers attached to the inner furface, which is fomewhat hollowed 



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