Spigelia Marilandica. 77 
LontceRra Marilandica spicis terminalibus, &c. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 249. Gron. Virg. 142. 
PeRicLYMEN! Virginiani flore coccineo, &c. Rai. dendr, 32. 
PHARM. 
Off. The root, 
Rapix Spigelie Marilandice. Edin. 
SpiGeL1z Radix. Lon. Dub. 
DESCRIPTIO UBERIOR. 
Radix perennis. Caules simplices, erecti, scabri, quadrangulares, rigidi, annui, Folia 
opposita, sessilia, ovato-lanceolata, integerrima, glabra, patentia, Spica soli- 
taria secunda. Bracteis parvulis oppositis. Calia pentaphyllus: foliolis subu- 
latis, persistentibus. Corolla superne 5-angulata, fauce gibba, basi dilatata: 
Limbus 5-partitus: laciniis lanceolatis revolutis. Stamina 5, corolla breviora. 
Antherae sagittate, conniventes, Germen superum. Stylus teres, inferne ar- 
ticulatus parte superiore decidua. Stigma attenuatum. Capsula subrotunda, 
didyma: loculis bivalvibus. Semina plurima, angulata, scabra. (¢Willd.) 
To a celebrated professor of anatomy and surgery at Padua, Dr. 
Adrian Spigelius, the genus, of which a species is now to be particu- 
larly described, was dedicated by Linneeus. Spigelius was a distin- 
guished botanist* in his day, in consequence of which he was thus 
* Dr. Spigelius was a profound anatomist and distinguished surgeon. He was boru 
at Brussels in 1578, and died professor of three branches at Padua, whither his fame 
