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THALIA DEALBATA. MEALY THALIA. 
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Clafs and Order. 
MonanpriAa Monocynia. 
Gynanpria Monanpria. Pur. 
Generic Charaéfer. 
Anthera fimplex, ovata, filamento proprio depreffo inixa, Stylus 
brevis, ab anthera deflexus. Stigma perforatum ringens, Bacca — 
monofperma. Semen evitellofum. Fe 
Specific CharaGer and Synonyms. 
THALIA dealbata; panicula albido-pulverulenta, fpathis bi- 
floris, foliis ovatis apice revolutis, Purfh Fl. Amer. Sept. 
84. 
THA LIA dealbata; calyce bifloro, culmo arundinaceo pulve- 
rulento, foliis apice revolutis. Ro/coe in Lin, Soc. Tranfad, 8. 
p- 34%. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 3. — 
THALIA? dealbata. Frafer, fingle plate, 
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We received a very fine fpecimen of this beautiful plant in 
flower, feveral years ago, from our friend Tuomas Furry 
Forster, Efq. but we could not make it expand any of the 
buds, though covered with a bell-glafs and a bright fun; and 
-confequently, from the fugitive nature of the bloffom, we could 
not at that time get a drawing made of it. This fpecimen, 
however, afforded us the opportunity of obferving that the 
anther burft, and difcharged its globular pollen, before the ex- 
panfion of the flower, and whilft it was clofely embraced by the 
membranous ftigma. This accounts for the circumftance, men- 
tioned in the generic character, of the ftyle being bent away 
from the anther; for this organ having already fhed its pe 
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