Heionias Viripis. GreEN-FLowrerep 
~ HELONIAs. 
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Cla/s and Order. 4 Pm” 
Hexanpria Monocxynia, 
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Generic Chara@er,—Vid. No. 985. 
Specific Charatter and Synonyms. 
HELONIAS viridis ; caule paniculato, floribus confertis 
fubfeffilibus eglandulofis, foliis ovatis nervofis 
fubplicatis. eae 
VERATRUM viride ; racemis paniculatis, bra€tcis ramorum _ 
- oblongo-lanceolatis, partialibus pedunculo fub-— 
pubefcente longioribus. Willd. Sp. Pl. v» 4» 
. 896. = pare ae 
. VERATRUM. cee racemo fupradecompofito, corollis 
_ campanulatis: unguibus latere intus incraffatis, _ 
Hort. Kew. v. 3. p. 422. Mart. Mill. Did. 
VERATRUM aléum : foliis lato-ovalibus fulcatis; floribus fube 
| feffilibus virefcentibus; calycis laciniis oblongos 
ovalibus, acutis. Michaux Fl. Bor.- Amer. v. 2 
ME p. 249- ee 
ELANTHIUM byébridum; petalis plicato-undulatis imma- 
Ci culatis, floribus mafculis et famineis mixtis. 
Walker Flor. Corolin. 125 ? 
We have elfewhere, No. 985, remarked that VERATRUM 
could not be feparated from Hrxontas. The fpecies here 
8ured is a native of Norih-America, from Carolina to Canada, 
pn has confiderable affinity with our HELontas virginica, 
ut has more numerous flowers, which fit almoft clofe to the 
©, and have not the yellow excavated {pots of the former s 
™ leaves are very different being broad-ovate, many-rjbbed 
and as It were plaited, 
nS Micuayx 
