foldered at the lower part: Axtbers the length of the free part 
of the filament, ere€t, four-cornered, hollowed at the bafe and 
affixed over the point of the filament like an extinguifher, 
covered with a dark green pollen. Germen ftraight, obfcurely 
three-cornered : Style three-furrowed : Stzgma three-lobed. 
In the figure of the flower given in the Tranfaéions of the 
Linnean Society, the germen is very much curved, which does 
not feem to be natural to the plant. 
We were informed that the ftem began to fhoot the preceding 
fummer, and reached to the height of three or four feet; that — 
then, the winter coming on, it remained quiefcent till the fol- 
lowing fpring, when it again refumed its growth, and the flowers 
began to expand by the end of July. 
