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HELONIAS GLABERRIMA. SMOOTH-LEAVED 
HELONIAS. 
Génerie Charaéier.—Vide No. 985- 
Specific Charatter and Synonyms. 
HELONIAS glaberrima; (hermapbhrodita ;) radice tunicato- 
bulbofa, ovato-oblonga ; foliis ligulato-clongatis, convoluto- 
canaliculatis, | attenuatis,  nervofo - ftriatis; | racemo 
diftante, pyramidato; bra€teis convoluto - lanceolatis ; 
corolla rotata, zquali, demum connivente ; Jaciniis laté 
ovatis cum acumine, bafi foffula gemina tranfverfe in- 
{culptis; capfula velata; feminibus lineari-oblongis, prif- 
maticis, integumento membranaceo quam nucleus ampliore 
atque fuperne alato. G. 
ZIGADENUS ¢glaberrimus. Michaux Bor. Amer. 1. 214. tab. 22, 
Purfh Amer. Sept. 1. 241. 
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As far as we are able to judge from the engraving in the 
above-cited work of MrcHau x, as well as from his defcription, 
we take our prefent plant to be the Zicapenus glaberrimus. 
It fhould be obferved, however, that the figure in that work 
has been done from a dried plant, in which there is not one 
corolla fhewn in its natural flate. We are really at a lofs to 
fay what may have induced the feparation of the {pecies into a 
genus diftinét from that which was left in poffeflion of Hetonras 
virginica (feeabove, No. 985). Excepting that the corolla in the — 
prefent plant is ultimately connivent, which is not the cafe there, 
we cannot deteét the flighteft point to juftify this innovation. 
According to us, Veratrum and the American {pecies of 
Metantuium form but one genus with Hevontas ; and 
we do not fcruple to add Zicapenus to the mais. Our 
_ drawing was made from a plant that flowered this fummer at 
Mr. Fraser’s Nurfery, in Sloane-Square, and which had been 
imported from North-America. If it be the Zicanenus gia 
berrimus, as we prefume, it is found in moift graily {pots in 
Virginia and Lower Carolina, attaining the height of two icct. 
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