oT SANDE A. TRIGYNI 
spot. Filaments very short, inse 
vted upon the 
gittate, erect. 
1. C. elegans, Purch, Flo: 
orthern Andes or Rocky 
te, 
Root (in the American species) truncate and horizontal — 
or rarely bulbous; leaves gramineous, flaccid; scape often 
tall, and py ramidally paniculate; petals conspicuously ungu- _ 
_-  iculate, Calicine, progessively changing colour, bimaculate. — 
a _ Species, 1. M. virginicum. 2. monoicum. 3. hybridum, — 
Nearly allied to Veratrum. Leaves elliptic-oblong, some-— 
what plaited. Upper part of the panicle feminine in an 
- elongated raceme; petals unguiculated, but without the = 
char: ic glandular spots, interior ones roundish ovate, 
acute in the male, obtuse, and a little undulated in the 
~ female, both nearly smooth. Styles uncinate, alittle short- 
_ er than the germ. Capsule large, appearing like 3 uni-— 7 
ted by the inner margins, cells 3, 5, and probably some- | 
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times 6 seeded, seeds imbricated, flat, subelliptic, with a 
double alated margin, about the size of the seeds of some 
"species of Pinus, v. v. In the mountains of North Caro- 
‘lina. 4 *elaucum. Root a tunicated bulb; leaves glau- 
€ous, gramineous, marginaied; raceme mostly simple, 
_few-tlowered; flowers hermaphrodite, petals roundish, un- 
uiculate, bimaculate; seeds subulately alated. Has. On 
he gravelly banks of the St. Laurence in calcareous soil; 
round the Cataract of Niagara, on the borders of Lakes 
Erie, Huron and Michigan and up the Missouri to Fort 
Mandan. It appears to be considerably allied to ntheri- 
eum in habit; scarcely a foot high; leaves almost similar 
to M. virginicum; flowers whitish, raceme’ sometimes a 
ome divided at the base. Flowering in July and Au- 
