_ interior, alternately difpofed, are longer, more patent and 
even recurved at the extremity, and of a deeper purple, 
Stamens many, 15—30: filaments ereét, half the length of the 
petals, inferted into the receptacle: anthers linear, ereét, 
purplifh red, the length of the filament, and both together 
equaling the petals. Germens feveral, 8—16, ereét, oblong, 
ftyle the length of the germen, pointed. Receptacle flat, rofe- 
coloured, with mammillary points, to which the feed-veffels are 
attached. Follicles oblong-ovate, contained within the per- 
fiflent corolla, one-celled, two-feeded, but one frequently 
abortive, Seed oval, when unripe of a delicate rofe-colour 
and fmooth, filled with a uniform flefhy albumen, the fhape of - 
the feed, in which we could not deteét the embryo; but our 
friend, Mr. Kinic, having fome time fince diffeéted ripe feeds 
with great care, difcovered the minute embryo at the apex of © 
the feed, beneath an orbicular lid which, when highly magnified, 
appeared fluted at the margin and exa€lly fitted the conformably 
rifled orifice in the tefta of the feed. Having difcovered, this 
part in fome other monocotyledonous feeds (as alfo in feveral 
Guettardas, &c.) he diftinguifhes it from the papilla embryofega 
of fome carpologifis, by the term of Embryopoma. The feed- 
yeffels which he examined, all contained one feed only, thofe 
of our fpecimen were two-feeded. 
Whilft our draughtfman had the branch of this plant under 
his care, floating in a bafon of water, he obferved that in the 
evening the anthers connived over the ftigmas, the petals clofed, 
and the peduncle was bent down, fo that the flower came to 
the furface of the water; in the morning the peduncle became — 
again ereét, the flower opened, the anthers diverged, and the 
piftils were expofed to the air and light. After fun-fet the 
fame fleeping flate, as on the preceding evening, returned, 
and the flower again funk down to the furface of the water. 
Only one fpecies of this plant has been hitherto difcovered ; 
an inhabitant of lakes in North-America, from Upper-Canada — 
to South-Carolina, ee a: 
- From the fate of the capfules, we have no doubt but this 
plant will readily ripen its feeds in the ciftern in an airy part 
of the ftove or greenhoufe : perhaps, being found in. Upper- 
Canada, it may not be injured by the feverity of our winters. 
For the fpecimen of this very rare plant, we are indebted 
to E. J. Wooprorn, Efg. of Springwell, who ftill continues 
his botanical purfuits witb the fame ardour as he formerly did 
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