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bracts J flowers pedicellate, rotate, five lobed, corolli- 

 form ; capsuls smooth. 



DESCRIPTION— Root perennial, large, one inch 

 thick, two feet long, yellowish. Several Steins from 

 two to five feet high, simple, round, erect, often 

 smooth. Leaves sessile, entire scattered, often crowd- 

 ed, oblong, obovate, cuneate or linear, flat or revolute, 



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smooth or hairy, A large terminal umbel with five 

 rays, and as many leaves in a whorl, similar to the 

 stem, leaves. Rays Itifid and next dichotomous, each 

 fork has two obiong bracts. Perianthc (mistaken for 

 the Calix by Linnseus, &c-) large, rotate, white, with 

 five rounded flat segments, looking like a corol. Five 

 small inner segments (nectaries of Lin.) like obtuse 

 projections at the base of the segments. A dozen of 

 Stamina, evolving gradually, each is a true flower 

 on a pedicel, with an articulate filament and a bilobe 



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anther. Many perianthes without pistil, when ex- 

 isting it is central, stipitate, nodding, rounded, with 

 three bifid Styles. Capsul three cocca or formed by 

 three valves rolkd in and making three cells, each 



with a seed convex outside, angular inside, ivhere it 

 U inserted. 



LocALiTT — From Canada to Florida and Louisi- 

 ana, in dry soils, barren fields, among stones and 

 rocks, also in gUdes, seldom in woods and never near 

 waters, nor in rich alluvial soils. 



HISTORY 



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article shall include three species, which have equi- 

 valent properties, the two others are 



1- JS. Jpecacuana Lin. Ipecacuana Spurge. Pe- 



