Galax. PLUMBAGINACE^. 53 



D. Lapponica, L. Plant forming very dense cushion-like tufts, glabrous : leaves im- 

 bricated on the short shoots, cartilaginous, spatulate (3 to 5 lines long), with mostly revo- 

 lute margins : peduncle at length an inch or two long : sepals and 2 or 3 bractlets oval, 

 rigid : corolla white, open campanulatc ; the tiibe (2 lines long) not longer than the calyx, 

 nearly equalled by the rounded lobes: filaments linear. Fl. Lapp. t. 1 ; Wahl. Fl. Lapp, 

 t. 9; Fl. Dan. t. 47; Bot. Mag. t. 1108. Labrador, Alpine summits of White Mountains, 

 New Hampshire, Mount Mansfield, Vermont, and N. W. arctic coast. (Greenland eastward 

 to Japan.) 



3. SH6RTIA, Torr. & Gray. (Dedicated to the late Dr. Charles W. Short, 

 of Kentucky.) Gray in Amer. Jour. Sci. xlii. 48, ser. 2, xlv. 402, & Proc. Am. 

 Acad. viii. 246; Maxim. Mel. Biol. ix. 19; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 620. 

 Two species, one Japanese, from which the character .of the corolla, stamens, &c., 

 were drawn by Maximowicz. 



S. galacif olia, Torr. & Gray. Rootstocks slender and apparently stoloniferous : leaves 

 (2 inches wide) orbicular, moderately cordate and retuse, repand-serrate and the teeth 

 mucronate : peduncles in fruit a span high, not surpassing the long petioled leaves, scaly 

 bracteate towards the summit : style elongated, persistent. High mountains of N. Caro- 

 lina, Michaur. In fruit only. 



4. GALAX, L., Sims. (If from j''P., milk, an unmeaning name.) Linn. 

 Gen. ed. 5, 93, excluding all the character and the synonymy ; these wholly of 

 ViticeUa, Mitchell, which is Hydrophyllum appendiculatum. Anonymos s. Bel- 

 vedere, Clayt. Virg. ed. 1, 25, with good character, which is wholly omitted by 

 Gronovius himself, in Fl. Virg. ed. 2, because quite incongruous with the generic 

 character of Galttx by Linnaeus. Single species. 



G. aphylla, L. Glabrous herb, with reddish creeping and matted rootstocks, sending up 

 leaves and scape : leaves round-cordate, thickly crenatc-dentate, veiny, thin but persistent 

 over winter, rather sinning, 1A to 3 inches broad, long-petioled : scape a foot or two high, 

 slender and very naked, almost bractless : raceme virgate and spike-like: bractlets minute, 

 deciduous: flowers numerous, small: corolla 2 lines long, white. Spec. i. 200 (excl. syn. 

 Mitch.) ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 754 (where the true char. gen. first appears with the name) ; DC. 

 Prodr. vii. 776. Erythrorhiza rotund ifolia, Michx. Fl. ii. 36. Blanfordia cordata, Andr. Bot. 

 Rep. t. 343. Solcnarulria cordifolia, P. de Beauv. ex Vent. Malm. t. 69. Wooded hillsides 

 and in mountains, Virginia to Georgia ; fl. early summer. 



ORDER LXXX. PLUMBAGINACE.E. 



Herbs, occasionally somewhat woody, agreeing with Primulacece in having the 

 stamens isomerous with the petals or divisions of the corolla and opposite them ; 

 the filaments adnate only to their base or completely hypogynous ; the free ovary 

 one-celled, with a solitary anatropous ovule pendulous on a slender funiculus 

 which rises from the base of the cell ; styles 5 and distinct or united ; the single 

 seed with a large and straight embryo surrounded by (or sometimes destitute 

 of) a sparing mealy albumen. Chiefly affecting saline soil. Leaves alternate, 

 mostly rosulate. Flowers regular and symmetrical, 5-merous, perfect. Calyx 

 gamosepalous, costate, plaited at the sinuses, persistent. Corolla with claws to 

 the nearly distinct petals, or these united into a tube, convolute or rarely im- 

 bricated in the bud. Anthers 2-celled, opening longitudinally. Disk none. 

 Fruit dry, utricular or akene-like, sometimes dehiscent by a lid or by valves. 

 Innocent, with astringent roots or rootstocks. 



