106 Frasera Walteri. 
two expanded flowers in the plate. The peduncles are from one 
to three inches long, one-flowered; calacine segments lanceolate, 
shorter than the corolla, Filaments four, shorter than the corolla, 
attached to the base, and alternating with the segments of the co- 
rolla. Anthers oblong, incumbent. Germ superior, ovate, tapering 
above. Style only the attenuated germ, bifid. Stigmas two, diverging. 
The capsules are compressed, somewhat margined, one-celled, and 
contain about eight or twelve diaphanous flat seeds, with a membra- 
naccous margin, and are imbricately attached to the attenuate mar- 
gins of the capsule. These capsules (in the dried specimens) are of 
the colour represented in the plate, (Fig. 2.) The habitat of this plant 
is variously described by different botanists. Michaux, it appears, has 
observed it in wet or swampy places “in Paludosis Caroline.” 
Pursh says it is found “in the swamps of Lower Carolina, and on 
the borders of the lakes of Pennsylvania and New York.” Mr. 
Nuttall says, “in the dry and open woods of western Pennsylvania, 
and New York, in certain localities it is abundant: and Dr. William 
Short, in a letter* to me, says it grows inthe barrens or prairies of 
* The following is an extract from the letter of this gentleman, which will, I am sure, 
be interesting in this place. «* The flowers of the Frasera are by no means showy 
at-a distance, but exquisitely delicate upon minute examination. 
« The Columbo, for so it is universally denominated here, grows abundantly in the 
country in which I reside, particularly those portions of it called barrens or prairies, 
where, from the annual passage of fires over them, the forest growth is stunted and 
sparse, but affording in the summer, rank and luxuriant growths of annual plants, and 
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