278 DECANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
power. in a terminal subumbellate scape. Stamina 10 
to 15. 
Srzcres. D. muscipula, Ons. Scape about 10-flowered, 
flowers in an umbell by pairs, each pair subtended by a 
single bracte. Calix persistent, 5-parted, segments ovate- 
oblong, margin membranaceous and glanduliferous. Pe- 
tals 5, marcescent, cuneate-obovate and emarginate, with 
the margin somewhat lacerated, inserted with the sta- 
mina beneath the germ, rolling inwards on withering, at 
first convolute as in the flowers of Hypericum, in flower 
ing and incurved, numerously nerved, nerves dicho- 
tomal above, diaphanous.. Stamina 10 to 14 or 15, more 
farely 16, disposed without any order relative to the pe- 
tals, strictly polyandrous; filaments filiform, shorter than 
the the interior ones sometimes petaloid; anthers 
hi with 4 angles, diaphanous; bursting on the open- 
ing of the corolla; pollen nearly white, conspicuous, 3 or 
4-angled, lobes round. Style 1, tubular, stigma lobed» 
lobes lacerately fimbriate, at first involute towards the ori- 
fice of the style, after the manner of the coma in Valeria- 
ma. Germ roundish and depressed, partly 5-lobed, infla- 
ted, lobes emarginated, cell 1, vales none. Seeds 20, 25, 
or 30, black and polished, inversely conic-ovoid, destitute 
of perisperm? somewhat about the size and form of the | 
seeds of Hypericum perforatum, attached to the receptacle 
by so many minute umbilical filaments, umbilicus not 
—_ central, agreeing with the parallel of insertion upon 
€ convex and favulose receptacle, which centrally occu- 
ies the base of the capsule. “ee membranaceous, at 
shrinking away so as to leave the seeds exposed 
upon the polyphore. Taste of the plant sweetish and af- 
-terwards transiently pungent, sap somewhat resinous, at 
first yellow. In drying the plant becomes black. 
Hae. Hitherto exclusively found on the North side of 
Cape Fear river, North Carolina, and no where more abun- 
dant than round Wilmington. I have traced it for 50 
miles north of that place, and am informed that it extends 
to Fayetteville —This singular plant, notwithstanding the 
extraordi peculianty of its foliage, is evidently allied 
3 to the Hypericina, and more particularly to the genus 
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