gulatus, acuminatus persistens; stigma minim:t staminibus breve. - _Semina ‘nuda, magua, velut 
rotundata, purpureo et flavo variegata, in receptaculo apangieg immersa, Habitat a Canada ad 
—— tenus, in mo et ad ect rivulorum. ~~” Barton’s FL. Phe MS. 
though few perhaps, have noticed. its singular inflorescence. The 
multitude of large, rank, feetid leaves, which grow from a single 
root, together with the fe aon pre 1% rE may use such an ex- 
pression,) of the plant, attract the. every one” who passes 
— fevnned — ppt seman where it arom ‘but at the 9 
ries 
oe = followed Mr. Nuttall, in ‘eases the generic term Sym- 
plocarpus, imposed by Salisbury ;* but not having had access to the 
volume of the work containing the epaper of this s gentleman, T have 
founded. 
