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ENNEANDREA, TRIGYNIA. 26t 
nenf@sum produces an erect and dichotomous stem, and 
verticillated leaves.) 
Species. 1. E. tomentisum. Called wild Rhubarb. 2. fa- 
vum. Fras. Catal. 1813. E. sericeum. Pu. 1. p. 277. 
3. parviforum. (E. pauciforum. Pu.2. p. 735.) 4. parvi- 
folium. Galix naked; leaves petiolate, alternate, ovate, re- 
volute; stem suffruticose.—Rees Encycl. under Eriogo- 
num, with the following. Has. Collected on the N. West 
coast of America, by A. Menzies, Esq. Involucrum very 
many flowered, proliferous; peduncles smooth. 5. latifoii- 
um. Calix naked; leaves petiolated alternate, cordate, 
undulated, petiole amplexicaule; stem suffruticose. Han. 
North West coast of America—Menzies. Ons. Leaves 
_ 2 inches long, tomentose beneath, often aggregated to- _ 
wards the summit of the divisions of the caudex. 
A North American genus, allied to Rhewm, and also to 
the Plegorhiza adstringens of Molini. 
876. PLEEA. Michawa, 
Calia none. Corolla 6-parted, stelJately — 
Spreading; segments linear, acute. Capsule 
roundish, with 3 angles, S-celled, dissepimen' 
gbsolete. Seeds numerous, minute, subterete 
‘ and caudate, attached to the margins of the 
Roots cespitose, fibrous; leayes irideous, compres: 
and attenuated, sempervirent, very narrow, furnished 
with distinct sheathes and distichallyimbricated. Scape 
sheathed, nearly naked; flowers few, racemose, pedun-. 
cles solitary, separately sheathed, about the middle bi- 
bracteate. Stamina 9 to 12, — 
Species. 1. P. ifolia. Rare. A 
uth of Wilming 
cality, a Glebe $ $0 
bres of he rot nearly scarlet, sheathing base of the 
leaves ofa fine pink red, leaves deep green, tenaceous and 
arid; racemes 6 to 9 flowered; flowers nearly saffron yel- 
low, persistent. This plant ven cine allied to the 
‘section of Tofieldia, which [have called Triantha, but dif- 
~ fers much inthe form of the flower as well as in the, habit, 
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