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ed with imbricate scales, ovate acuminate and yellow- 

 ish — Leaves evergreen, on long slender petioles, pro- 

 ceeding from the caudex, with ternate folioles, ses- 

 sile, rounded or obovate, base acute, margin with 

 unequal acuminate crenatures and lobes, surface 

 smooth, firm and veined. Scapes as long as the leaves, 

 slender filiform, with one flower and a minute mucro- 

 nate bract under it.- 



Flowers about half an inch wide, with a white co- 

 rolliform calix of five, six or seven sepals or folioles, 

 oblong, obtuse, concave. Petals as many^ shorter, 

 nectariform, obovate, hollow, yellow at the top. Sta- 

 mina many, filaments slender and white, anthers 

 rounded, adnate and yellow- Pistils fromfive to eight, 

 stipitate germs shorter than the gynophore or base, 

 oblong, acute, compressed. Styles short and curved, 

 stigmas acute. Capsules like the pistils naked, the ca- 

 lix having fallen off, umbellate, on long divaricate pe- 

 dicels, oblong rostrate, unilocular, dehiscent on the 

 inner side, and many seeds attached to the other 

 side. 



HISTORY — This plant was erroneously united to 



HelhhoriLS by Linnaeus. I proposed to call it Chry- 

 za^ in 180S : it was since called Copiis by Salisbury; 

 although my name is anterior and more descriptive, 



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I am so little tenacious as to admit the Copiis which 

 has already been adopted by many. The principal 

 distinctions are found in the stipitate pistils and cap- 

 sules, besides petals not bilabiate. My new genus 

 Enemion bitematum^ differs from Contis bv want of 



