- = OUB; anthersepotted; 
_.. Younded at the base by a 
ly short, hid inthe umbilical Bs 
ma convex, orbicalar, disk an into, 
germ somewhat coni psule $-celled; septa medial, 
artificially” bipartile, Gelcecice below in the Teceptacular 
axis, margins of the valves "Mesatate of connecting fila- 
ments, beginning to open at the summit; receptacle 5-lo- 
bed, pendulous, lobes bipartile. Seeds similar to Pyfola. 
2. maculata —Scape 1t6 3-flowered, sometimes with 12 
stamina and 6 petals, flowers white; disk of the sti 
_ Which supports the filaments entirely villous; leaves ovat 
lanceolate, incisely serrate, discolored. Hab. Indigenous 
ulso to the North West Coast of America.—Menzies. 
Probably both species of this genus will be found also 
-in Bast Asia and Kurope.—The disposition of the pores at 
the base of the anthers in place of the summit, in this and 
» the preceding genus, ioe an additional affinity tothe = 
— ae. germ sur- 
ular r ‘Style extreme- 
n of the germ; stig > 
; onotropa; that there exists also a leaf- 
ess epi of Profan the — rest Coast, ». ‘En- 
cycl. - i 
__~ $91. LEDUM. ZL. (Labrador-tea) * <2 
e Calix 5-cleft. Petals 5. Stamina exserted. 
| NCapsule 5-celled, opening at the hoo Ee ae : 
na also 5.) | Ke 
‘  -* . Lew shrubs with coriaceous. leaves, whey nie terohdia: 
3 - on the margin, and common! niose on the under 
~~ surface; flowers white, in terminal corymbs, peduncles 
¥ long and 1 ‘ered, » brasseate. at the base. 
