m BOTROPHIS. ^0. IG, 



jagged J raceme terminal, very long, more or less 

 bent: flowers scattered, peduncled, bracteolate. 



DESCRIPTION— Koot perennial, blackish, thick, 

 with long fibres, — Stem simple straight, from three 

 to six feet high^ smooth, angular, furrowed, often 

 Crooked — leaves few^ and alternate, one nearly radical, 

 remote, ample, decomposed, tripinnatc, .upper one 

 bipinnate; folioles sessile, opposite, three to seven on 

 each last division of the petiole, oval or lanceolate, 

 acuminate, smooth, pale beneath, with yellowish re- 

 ticulated veins, margin unequally, jagged, or sharply 

 serrate, particularly outside : the last foliolc is Irifid. 

 Flowers in a long terminal raceme, from one 

 to three feet long, often with one or two shorter ones 

 near its base- This raceme is cylindrical, while, al- 

 ways bent or crooked at first ; the flowers are scatter- 

 ed, lax, often geminate or fasciculate, on short pedun- 

 cles, with a subulate bract. The calix is white, like a 

 corolla, with four thick rounded and obtuse sepals ; 

 the petals are very small, shorter than the calix 

 and stamina : these last form a pencil, the filaments 

 are white, club shaped ; the anthers yellow, oblong, 

 terminal. Pistil oval, without style, stigma sessile, 

 Jateral and flattened. Capsul blackish and dry, with 

 one cell and a longitudinal receptacle, opposite to the 

 opening, to which many flat seeds arc attached. 



^Thls plant has many varieties, one is dwarf, a foot 

 high, with a triangular stem, leaves small, biternate, 

 and with several racemes : growing in the moun- 

 tains of New York. If it is a peculiar 'Species; it migbt 

 be called H: T)umitfw 



