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SESELI DIVARICATUM. SHINING SESELI 
Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA Diecynra. 
Generic Charafter. 
Umbelle globofe. Involucrum nullum, vel foliolo uno alteroves 
Fraus ovatus ftriatus. 
Specific Charaéler and Synonyms. 
SESELI divaricatum ; caule ramofiffimo divaricato, foliis bi- 
pinnatifidis: laciniis lanceolatis incifis, involucris nullis : 
involucellis linearibus. Purfo Flor. Am. Sept. 732. Suppl. - 
SESELI /ucidum, Frafer’s Catal, 181 3. 
Had we not feen a fpecimen of this plant, marked by 
Mr. Pursa himfelf, in Mr. Lamsert’s Herbarium; the ob- 
fervation of this Botanift, that it “refembles Szsext tortuofum 
very much,” would have led us to doubt if it could poffibly be 
his drvaricatum, as it appears to us to refemble nothing lefs than 
tortuofum. In thet mall plants that we have feen cultivated in 
pots, the ftem is notmuch branched, nor are the few branches 
very divaricate. = a 
We fhould have preferred the name of lucidum, under which 
it was offered to fale in Mr. FRaAseEr’s Catalogue, and which 
we imagine was given it by Mr. Nuttaxt, by whom it was 
firft introduced into this country. 
The flowers have a fweet fcent, refembling that of the Starch 
Hyacinth. Y | 
Perhaps a hardy Perennial. Native of Upper Louifiana. 
Communicated by Meffis, J. and J, Fraser, of Sloane- 
Square, ig 
