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the upper side nearly to the base. Anthers united into 

 a tube. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule inferior, or semi- 

 superior, 2— 3-ceIled, 2-valvtd at the apex. Gen. pL 

 1363. R. Brown Prod. I. p. 561. Nu 1 1. Gen. 

 II. p. 75. Juss. p. 165. Lam. Ill t. DCCXXIV, 

 Roem. ^ Schiilt. Gen. 873. Nat. Ord. Lobe- 

 LiACEiE Jii s s>-[ olim Campanulace^e. 



1. L. Dortmanna L. : leaves linear, 2-ceIled, fleshy, ob- 

 tuse ; scape nearly naked ; flowers racemed, remote. W it ld» 

 Spec. I. p. 938. E)ig. Bot, t. 140. Mich. Ft. II. p. 153, 

 Pursh Ft. II. p. 446. Muhl. Cat. p. 2^2. Big. Bost. 

 p. 36. Roem. k- S chut t.\. p. 37. L. paludosa N utt. 

 Gen. II. p. 75. R. ^ S. L c. 



Root perennial, consisting of numerous matted fibres. Leaves ira» 

 mersed, 1—2 inches long, growing in a tuft about the root, ob- 

 tuse, spreading and recurved, consisting of 2 united tubes, with a 

 longitudinal dissepiment. Scafie a foot and a half high, emerged, 

 bearing 3 — 4 very remote pedicellate nodding flowers. Pedi- 

 cel-1 haif an inch long, with a small bract at the base. Calyx 

 smooth, with 5 oblong teeth. Corolla pale blue, half an inch 

 long ; segments of the lower lip pubescent at the base. Style 

 persistent. Ca/2««/(? erect, 2-celled. "Seec/* oblong, numerous, 

 scabrous. Water Gladiole. 



Hab. In fresh water ponds and deep swamps. Near Boston. 

 Big e low. Chester, Massachusetts. £w m 72*. In New> 

 Jersey. Muhlenberg. In deep sphagnous swamps, from 

 Sussex cou7ity, in Delaware, to Georgia, 'j\'u 1 1 a 1 1. July, 



The Noith-American plant is scarcely a distinct species. 

 On comparing it with my European specimens, I could per- 

 ceive no important difference. In the latter, the inferior seg- 

 ments of the corolla are distinctly bearded at the base. 



2. L. Kalmii L. : whole plant smooth ; slem slender, 

 erect, branched; leaves linear, remotely denticulate ; radical 

 ones spathulate ; raceme lax, few-flowered, leafy ; peduncles 

 longer than the fruit, with 2 minute bracts near the flower ; 

 capsule attenuate at the base. Willd. Spec. I. p. 939 

 Mich. Fl.\\.^.\53, Pursh FLU. p. 446. Mutt. 

 GcH. 11. p. 76. fF a//. Cor. p. 218. Ro em. ^ S chult\ 

 V. p. 38. 



Root biennial? Stem a foot or 18 inches high, very slender. 

 Leaves 1 — 2 inches long, and about a line and a half broadi 

 with a few remote minute teeth. Peduncles nearly an inch in 

 length. Calyx smooth j segments lanceolate, shorter than the 



f Annal. du Mus. XVIII. p. 1. et seq. 



