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MENYANTHES CRISTA-GALLI. 



-Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Gentiane^. 



Gen. Char. CaL 5-partItus. Cor. infundibuliformis, intus hirta 



(vel cristata). Stigma bilobum. Capsula blvalvis, valvis axi 

 placentiferis. 



Menyanthes Crista-Galli ; foliis radicalibus longe petiolatls rcnifor- 



mibus crenatis, scapo covymhoso, laciniis corolla? undulatis crls- 

 - tatis. (Tab. XXIV.) 



Menjanthes Crista-Galli, Menzics MSS. 



Hab. In era occidentali Americge Septentrionalis. Z). Menzics. 



Radix horizontalis, crassa, fibrosa, superne squamis magnis, ovatis, 



fuscis, . basibus vaginantibus petiolorum foliorura vetustorum. 

 Folia omnia radicalia, longe petiolata, duas uncias longa, qua- 

 . tuor lata, reniformia, crenataj'nervosa: pdioli pollicares, superne 

 canaliculati, basi insigniter dilatati vaginantes, Scapiis pedalis 

 teres, glaber, superne rubicundus. Flores corymbosi, pedunculis 

 petiolisque bractea ovata muiiitis. Calyx profunda qulnquefidus, 

 laciniis ovato-Ianceolatis. Corolla infundlbuliformis, alba, 5-fida, 

 laciniis ovatis, acutis, patentibus, margine undulatis, superne la- 

 mella erecta undulata cristatis. Stamina 5, exserta: Anther<s 

 oblongae, flavae. Pistillum : Germeii conicupi. Sti^Ius cylindra- 

 ceus, deciduus ; Stigma bilobum, flavum. Capsula conico-oblonga, 

 calyce cincta unilocularis, apice dentibus 4 dehiscens. 



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This cliarming plant is another of Mr. Menzies's interest!] 

 discoveries on the north-west coast . of America, growing in 

 marshy mountain pastures in Prince William's Sound, and 

 •about Cape Edgecombe, in lat. S;"*-^ The crest on the seg- 

 ments of the corolla in this species is exactly similar to that 

 on the flowers of Roxburgh's Menyanthes cristata^ which has 

 also white flowers, hut with the habit and mode of growth 

 of a Vlllarsla. - Here^ however, there arc no hairs upon the 

 corolla, not even at the mouth of the limb, whilst in M. cris- 

 lata that part is hairy. 



jP/^. 1. Flower, i^^^. 2. Capsule. i=^;V. 3. Section of the same : ma^n//^^^. 



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