PENTANDLI Ae MONOGYNIA, 145° 
3.) Capsule 2- celled, 2-seeded, not opening. 
Seed ov ate, attached to the summ{t of the recep- 
} tacular axis by means of an umbilical filament. 
Shrubs with subverticillated branches, verticills distant; 
leaves alternate, entire, without stipules; racemes terminal, 
clustered; flowers smali and white, pedicells bibractedlate. 
Svecies. 1. C. caroliniana. Of this genus there is ano- 
ther species described by Michaux or Richard as growing 
in the islands of the Antilles. 
£23. GALAX. L. ERyTHRoreiza. Mich. ~ So-* 
LANANDRA. Persoon. (Beeile-weed.) 
Calix 5-parted, persistent. Corolla twice the 
Jength of the calix, 5-petalied: peials affixed to 
the base of the stamina. .dntheriferous tube 10- 
cleft, the 5 shorter segments bearing the anthers. 
Stigma S-lobed. | ule ‘s-celled, 8-valved, | 
valves septiferous in the cei a AE | 
_ ailixed to a central axis : 
Piss coria- 
Herbaceous, 5 rene and sem’ 
~ eeous, all radical, reniform, and crenate on the margin; 
scape naked, mapy flowered; flowers small and white, — 
disposed in a long spike. fs not Guanera magellanica — 
and the Lanpank nke of Feuiliée, 2. t. 31. allied to this genus?) 
Species. 1. G. aphylia. A subalpine plant, abundant _ 
“ont the margins of running springs, beneath the shade — 
of Kalmia latifolia ov Rhododendrum maximum, through-_ 
put the high mountains of Virginia, Tennessee, Carolina 
and Georgia. Yhe root is red and astringent. The 
~ whole plant spontaneously exbales a stereoraceaus odor, — 
which is not sensible eae hcigsine leaf! from 
this singular property that it has o 
pach 2 or a vulgarism equivalent to by the inha-_ 
bitants and hunters in the mountains of North Carolina. 
There is but one species of this genus and peculiar to 
= _IMPAT TENS. I. (Balsam, Toscheaeaey, 
Calix 2-leaved. Corolla 4-petalled, i 
a 2 interior petals unequally bilo 
thium. Cae a wil al 
