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HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
- situations a few miles thisin St. Louis, Louisiana, and more 
‘recently yery plentiful on the lowest banks of the Ohio. 
The late governor Lewis brought specimens of this plant 
yallies of the Rocky Mountains, and informs us 
‘that the roots form a favourite article of diet amongst the 
aborigines of the mountains. The distribution of this 
plant from east to west is over an extent of more than 
2000 miles, but from north to south not more than 300, 
if so much.—This species appears to be somewhat allied 
to P. glaucum of Peru. 
2. croceum. Oss. Leaves arid, gramineous; raceme - 
few-flowered (10 to 12 or more), lower flowers half an | 
Pn tt; bractes very obtuse and membranaceous, - 
sut a line long, obvallate; ‘pedicells: erect, filiform, 
rin ee inch; flower about the size and colour of JVar- 
_ thecinxm americanum, or saftron yellow, the centre of the 
~ petals, particularly on the exterior, being deeper coloured 
_ or brownish; petals, (or rather. segments “persistent,) 
ovate-oblong, rather narrow, spreading; filaments of the 
stamina subulate, smooth, somewhat shorter than the pe- 
tals; anthers pale, oblong; style subulate, distinctly trifid 
at the summit; stigmata subulate, connivent, As the 
inflorescence differs so materially from Michaux’s plant, 
which he describes as producing “a pyramidal “reg 
_ it may justly be doubted whether these remarks apply to 
322, 
it, or to a distinct species; at all events { am fully satis- 
wpe Bs isa Phalan 
gium. 
ensive genus is principally confined to the Cape 
there are, however, a few species in the 
- south-of Europe, and 4 in Peru, 
. NARTHECIUM. f. 
Corolla inferior, petals 6, spreading, persis- 
tent. Filaments filiform, hirsute. Capsule pris- 
matic, 3-celled, many pecties, Seeds filiformly 
, subulated at each extremity. Calia none. 
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