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TlARELLA CORDIFOLIA. HEART-LEAVED 



TlARELLA. 



CXj/J tf#<i Order. 

 Decandria Digynia. 



Generic Charatler. 



Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. 5-petaIa, calyci inferta : petalis integris. 

 Cap/, l-locularis 2-valvis : valvula altera majore. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



TlARELLA cordifolia ; foliis cordatis; fcapo erecto nudo. 

 TlARELLA cord/olid; foliis cordatis. Sp. PL 580. Reich. 2. 



322. JVilld. 2. 659. Hort. Kew. ed. ait. 3. p. 72. Mw. 



Mill.. Die! . Gron. Virg. ed. 2. ^.63. Michaux FL Bor.-ylm. 



1. p. 270. 



TlARELLA cordifolia ; foliis cordatis acute lobatis dentatis, 

 dentibus mucronatis, fcapo racemofo. Purjb FL Bor.-Am. 



P- 3^3- 

 MITELLA nudo fcapo. Hort. Cliff. 167. 

 MITELLA floribus fpicatis albis, foliis Heuchera?, valva cap- 



fulae fuperiore alia multo breviore, feminibus lucidis nigris. 



Clayton Mff. n. 554. Gron. Virg. ed. 1. p. 160. 

 CORTUSA americana flore fpicato, petalis integris. Hernu 



Parad. 129. fine icone. 

 CORTUSA indica vel Hedera terreftris. Stapel T'heophrajl. 



p. 366. cum icone bona. 



Tiarella cordifolia ufually, if not always, puts up a 

 flowering ftem immediately from the root, without leaves. 

 Retzius has defcribed, as a diftincl fpecies, one with a fmgle 

 feflile leaf on the fcape. In the Bankfian Herbarium are fpeci- 

 mens gathered by Mr. Archibald Menzies, at Port Trini- 

 dad, on the north-welt coaft of America, which have very long 

 Ample afTurgent Items, terminated with a fpike of flowers, and 

 having five or fix leaves, placed alternately, and a pair of 

 membranaceous ftipulze beneath each. This may well be con- 

 sidered as a diftinft fpecies, efpecially as the flowers arc on 



pedicles 



