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CLAYTONIA PERFOLIATA. PERFOLIATE 
CLAYTONIA, 
Cla/s and. Order. 
PENTANDRIA MoNOCGYNIA,. 
Generic Charader. 
Cal, a-valvis. Cor. 5-petala. Stigm. 3-fidum. Cap/. 3-valvis;. 
1-locularis, 3-fperma. 
Specific Charager and Synonyms. 
CLAYTONIA perfoliata; folio caulino fuborbiculari per- 
fohiato. 
CLAYTONIA perfoliata. Donn's Catal. ed. 4. p. 50. Willd, 
Sp. Pl. 1a. p. 1186 ? 
CLAYTONIA cubenfis. Bonpland in Annales du Muf, d’Hift. 
Nat. v.7. p 82. ¢. 6. Humb. et Bonpl. Plantes 
Equ:noxtales, p. 91. t. 26. 
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Desc. Root annual, fibrous, Radical leaves on long foot- 
ftalks rhomboid-ovate. Séems many, erect, fimple, fucculent, 
naked, except the orbicular, perfoliate involucre or cauline 
leaf. Common peduncle generally fimple, fometimes branched, 
jointed, bearing {mall white nodding flowers, upon pedicles 
varying in length, feveral from the fame point at the 
upper part and fewer at the lower, chiefly looking one 
way, without bra&es, except a {mall ovate one at the bafe 
of thofe pedicles which grow ithmediately above the in- 
volucre ; thefe are ufually few. The flowers are white, very 
{mall : petals flightly emarginate. Cap/ule roundifn, three- 
valved: valves burfting firft at the apex, afterwards their fides 
fuddenly curl inwards with elafticity, which difperfes the feed. 
Seeds three, fhining, lenticular, notched at the bafe, which 
notch is filled up with a white.caruncle projecting beyond the 
feed and terminating in a ftring, by which the feed is attached 
