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UVULARIA LANUGINOSA. GREEN-FLOWERED 

 DOWNY UVULARIA. 



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Generic Character. — Vid. No. 916. 



Specific Chamber and Synonyms. 



UVULARIA lanuginofa ; (flos e majoribus ; capfula haccata $ G.) 

 incana, foliis feffilibus, fubcordatis, pedicellis geminatis. 

 Perfoon Syn. 1. 360. 



STREPTOPUS lanuginofus t fubcandicanti-lanuginofus : foliis 

 feffilibus bafi vix cordatis : pedicellis in breviffimo ftipite 

 geminatis ; floribus majufculis, virefcentibus. Michaux 

 Flor. Bor. Amer. 1. 201. 



Desc. Root as in the reft of the genus; Jlem about a foot 

 high, terminating in two or three divergent branches, from green 

 becoming brown, adpreffedly downy ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 far acuminate, three-ribbed, reticulately veined, downy on the 

 under, naked on the upper furface ; -peduncles dichotomous, two- 

 flowered; capfule berried, red, tritorofe, fometimes oblong, with 

 one cell only fertile. Native of the high grounds of South- 

 Carolina. We loft the opportunity of infpecting the flowers for 

 defcription. 



The drawing was taken from a plant brought to this country 

 from America by Mr, Lyon, with whom it bloomed in Mav 

 laft. Hardy. G. 



