Obs. ft baud nobis nifi in Hetbario Bankfiano et eitatis Tabulis fpcfiatd 

 Icon in Korto Kewenii a plant a fpontanca dejiccata fait delincata. ^iiibui 

 umbella prolifera -pauci flora iis faciei fere racemoja. G. 



Desc. Root perennial, creeping ; toofjfock about the thicknefs 

 ofacommonquill, flefhy, running horizontally within the ground, 

 with long internodes ; leaves 3 — 4 radical, or one fubcauline ; 

 oblong-obovate, of a deep green, upwards rounded with a 

 point, downwards tapered, ambient, from upright diverging, 

 twice fhorter than fcape, fomewhat channelled concave, ob- 

 fcurely ftriate, underneath polilhed, paler, villoufly ciliate at 

 the edge and the keel of the midrib; /cape central, fimple, 

 fubaphyllous, upright, round, villous, about afoot high, ter- 

 minating in a thinly-flowered corymb, the pedicles, in which 

 are alio villous, arranged fubverticillately and clofely round 

 a very fhort, nearly obfolete Yachts, whence they converge 

 aflurgently in the manner of an umbel ; bracles very fmall, 

 caducous ; corolla hexapetaloufly parted, ftellately patent ; 

 fegments deciduoufly feparable, nearly equal, oval- oblong, 

 fhortly tapered at the bafe, having a green glandular mark 

 towards the top on the infide ; filaments, filiform fubulate, 

 rather longer than corolla, from upright diverging, inferted 

 by their bafe between the germen and corolla; anthers upright, 

 ovate-fagittate, fixed by their bafe ; germen fmall, oval, even, 

 fhining, without ftreak or furrow, pale green ; flyle continuous, 

 filiform, thicker, Uriel, fmooth, whitiih, equal to ftamens, 

 three times longer than germen, terminating in a blunt fub- 

 pubefcent ftigmatofe point; berry fpherical, blue; cells dif- 

 permous ; fome of the feeds generally abortive. The leaves, 

 when viewed through a magnifier, appear fhagreened or 

 roughened with fmall clofe puftules. As the germen fwells the 

 fegments generally divide at the bale and fall off. Michaux 

 defcribes the bloom as fragrant ; this we did not obferve ; he 

 alio fays, that the corolla has fometimes a purple tinge on the 

 inner fide; and that in the Canadian fpecimens, the corymb 

 or umbel is often proliferous ; it may then be miftaken for 

 a raceme. Native of Hudfon's-Eay, Newfoundland, and 

 Canada; found by Michaux on the Alleghany Mountains: 

 |3 was introduced into Kew Gardens by Dr. Solan der, in 

 1778, from Newfoundland. Our drawing was taken at Mr. 

 Loddiges's nurfery, Hackney. Hardy. Requires to be 

 kept in peat-mould. Flowers in June. Its Indian name is 

 alecojlote, hunter's phyfic. G. 



