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JUSSIEUA GRANDIFLORA. GREAT-FLOWERED 
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Class and Order. 
Decanpria Monocynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 4—~s. b-partitus, superus. Petala4d—s.5. Caps. 4—s. 
5—locularis, oblonga, angulis dehiscens. Sem. numerosa, 
minuta. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Jussieva grandiflora ; erecta, foliis integerrimis : inferioribus 
spathulatis : superioribus lanceolatis, floribus decandris, 
eae calycibusque villosis. Pursh. fl. am. Sept. 
. 304. 
Jue grandiflora, radice perenni repente, caulibus erectis, 
pedunculis calycibusque villosis, foliis integerrimis : in- 
ferioribus spathulatis: superioribus lanceolatis, floribus 
maximis decandris. Michaux fl. am. bor. 1. p. 267. 
Persoon Syn. 1. p. 469. 
The flowers of Jussteva grandiflora are very large and 
shewy, but extremely fugitive. It is an aquatic and may be 
cultivated in a pond in the open air, in which situation it 
blossomed two years following at Chelsea; but it produces 
finer and more plentiful flowers, when planted in a pot, and 
placed in a pan of water, in the stove. The economy of 
this plant, when growing in water is very curious, and was 
pointed out to us by Mr. Anperson, in the Chelsea Garden. 
It sends out long runners, from every joint of which grow 
erect, flowering branches and thick tufts of short, fibrous 
roots, of a dark colour, and above these long branched, 
spongy, extremely light substances, about the size of a goose 
uill, and not unlike the pith of elder, which may be called 
oaters or buoys; as their use appears to be to ee ae 
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