— HEXANDRIA, DIGYNIA. = 229 
axillary, deflected and incrassated during the maturing 
of the fruit.—Calix persistent, conspicuous, petals and 
stamina minute; fruit di or tricoccus, naked. .Corculum 
- erect, flat; cotyledones convex, peltate; radical inferior. 
Perisperm none. 
Srecres. 1. F. palustris. (F. proserpinacoides, Willd.) 
Oss. Stem terete. Leaves somewhat succulent, alter- 
~ nate, pseudopinnate; segments mostly 5, narrow, oblong- 
lanceolate, simple, ultimate divisions confluent at the 
base, lateral ones 2 or 3-lobed, somewhat obtuse, di or 
trichotomously and numerously nerved, (when held to the 
light;) petiole long, semicylindric, channelled. Peduncles 
axillary, at first short, but gradually elongated nearly to 
2 inches. Calix 3-parted, segments ovate, ‘acute, thickish 
and green. Petals 3, white, alternating with the calix, 
and much smaller, oblong, somewhat obtuse, and persis- 
tent, pubescent at the base (seen through a lens), insert- - EI 
ed upon the calix. Stamina 6, minute, irre dis- 
posed, arising from the base of the calix; fi races, ae 
ry, alternately articulated upon 3 glands. near thei 7 
anthers roundish. Style 1, inserted between the fruit, and 
unconnected with itin ¢very direction, apex bifid, stigmas — 
2, small, roundish. Fruit withinthe persistent ca ‘con- 
if sisting of 2, 7 J and rarely 3 Os roundish, naked, but membra- a. 
haceow coated seeds; integument papillosely rugose. — 
com The seed Sepeath tefl Bepillelte 2ellip- 
~ convex, fleshy lobes, a littte acrid tothe tasteybutthe — 
r disposition of the embryon, immersed, and includ- % 
=u near the base of the‘lobes, in a small cavity, so as to 
render the cotyledones very excentrically De se are cir- 
cumstances which lead me to doubt the validity of these 
apparent seed-lobes, apd { must recommend to further 
examination. x 
Hag. In Pennssi¥aniay (9 (on the banks of the 
i near Phil ee: 
a is not pt ogee sae the natul : 4 
a genus, the present, it can ot be 
some order without any distinct relation; as i % may E 
be_referred to the end of the PorTULAcsa, With Nectris 
it appears to have no : sa whatever. 
“ Oxver U.—DIGYNIA. 
338, NECTRIS. Willd. — 
Calia 5 inferior, the si 1 ier 
“ments nae — and e. 
