Hyprastis Canapensis. AMERICAN ~ 
Hyprastis. : ie 
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Class and Order. 
PoLtyanprRIA Potyeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Ranuncutace2. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 3-sepalus, sepalis ovatis ; Pet. 0. Stamina ovari- 
aque plurima. Cariopsides baccate, plurime in capitulum, 
stylo terminate, 1-loculares, 1—2-sperme. Semina obo- 
voidea levigata. D.C. 
For Specific Name and Synonyms and Description and 
Figure of the Flowering Plant see our Tab. 3019. 
Under the remarks at the Figure just quoted, I mention- 
ed the great rarity of this plant, and that, notwithstanding 
the extensive correspondence | enjoyed with the Botanists of 
North America, it had never been in my power to examine 
a native specimen. Through the kindness of Dr. Dartine- 
ton of West Chester, Pennsylvania,I have lately been placed 
in communication with Dr. SHorr of Lexington, Kentucky, 
and amongst a very extensive collection which that gentle- 
man had the kindness to send me, (unquestionably one of 
the most beautiful I ever received,) I had the great pleasure 
to find specimens of Hyprastis Canadensis, and what was 
still more valuable, a beautiful drawing of the fructified 
state, as it is here given, taken from the living plant. 
If in the flowering state, Hyprastis Canadensis, has little 
beauty to recommend it to general cultivation, such is not 
the case when it has arrived at maturity; at which period, 
the two ample leaves terminating the erect and unbranched 
stem, are crowned, as it were, with the rich scarlet berry as 
large as a raspberry. It is composed of about a dozen 
obovate, 
