calyx nmny-leaveJ, simple, ovate; pistil longer thn the cornllot ; seeds terminated 

 J)y two coloured bristles. Jt has tlie apj>earaiice oi' a verbesina. Liitmns. S'loah-i 

 says this plant lays us-iial!y ylonijj the surface ut' tije earth, pinled, nine inches Ituj. ^ 

 Jirovvne made it a species of tanacetum, or tansev, and it is ihi; colulu vcrki.siji^ oi 

 1-iniieus, transt'erred to this genui; by Suartij. 



Lead-Wort Sic Toothwort. 

 Leeks Sie Eschalot. 



- 'No English Name. LFERSIA. 



Cl. 3, OR. 2. Triandria digynia^ Nat. or. Gramlna. 

 ^o named from Joha Daniel Leers, author of a botanical work. 



^EN. CHAR, Calyx none; corolla a bivalve glume ; valves navicular, concave, coi'rt- 

 pressed, ciliate, prickly on the back, ncarlj- equal ; the exterior larger, oblont,', 

 mucronated; the interior twice as narrow, linear, acute; nectary two-leaA'ed; 

 leaflets lanceolate, acute ; stamens from one to six capillary filaments, with oblong 

 ssntliers ; the pistil has an ovate compressed germ, two capniary short styles, with 

 feathered stigmas ; there is no pericarp, the corolla includes .the seed, which is 

 single, ob-ovate, compressed. Two species are natives of Jamaica. 



I. WONANDRA. ONE-sTAMENEn. 



iPanicle -spreading ; spikes remote, loose ; spikelets directed all one wa}', rounds 

 ish, one-stamened ; glumes even. Sw. 



a. IIEXANDRA. SIX-STAMENEB. 



panicle spreading ; spikelets alternate, six-stameaed ; plaraes almost even, 

 Sw. 



No English Name. LEGNOTIS. 



Cl. is, or. 1. Polyandria monogynia. Nat. or. 

 This name is derived from a Greek word signifying fringed, the petals teing fringed, 

 <Jen. char. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, bell-shaped, half four or five-cleft, per- 

 manent ; corolla four or five petaled, longer than the calyx, border ovate, fringed; 

 claws slender, inserted into the receptacle ; stamens from sixteen to twenty fila- 

 jnents, or more, with oblong upright anthers; the pistil has a roundish germ, a 

 cylindric style, and headed stigma ; the pericarp is a large three-cornered cajisule, 

 three-cellecl, three- valved, elastic ; the seed solitary, on one side convex, oii the 

 .other cornered. One species is a native of Jamaica. 



elliptica. elliptic, 

 Xeaves elliptic j flowers pedicelled. Sw, 



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