PRiNos. HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 339 



An evergreen shrub, 3 — 4 feet high. Leaves alternate, very- 

 smooth, and of a leathery texture, acute, with several obscure 

 teeth at the extremity. Floivers perfect? white. Pedicels 

 half an inch long. Segments of the corolla ovate, rounded. 

 Berries globose, black, shining. Seeds naciform, oblong, com- 

 pressed. 



IIab. In svfamps and in barren sandy woods. July. Ink-berry. 



230. FL£ERKEA. JVi lid enow. 



Calyx 3-leaved. Corolla 3-petalled, shorter thaQ 

 the calyx. Style bifid. Utricidi 2 — 3, united, l-seed- 

 ed, superior. JFilld. in Act. Nat, Cur. Berol. III. 

 1801. Nutt. Gen.\.^.'22'^. Muhl Cat.^. ^^. 

 Nat. Ord. JuNCi ./z^ j^. (Correa,)\ 



F. uliginosa Muhl. \. c. N ut t. Gen. I. c. R af. in 

 Sill. Jour. I. p. 373. F, proserpinacoides WiUd. I. c. F. 

 lacustris P er s. St/n. I. p. 393. Nectrjs pinnata P ursh 

 fL I. po 229o 



Root annual. Stem decumbent, slender, terete, very smooth, and 

 a little succulent. Leaves alternate, on long petioles, trifid and 

 pinnatifid ; segments about 5, lanceolate, with dichotomous 

 nerves; the superior ones confluent. Peduncles axillary, at 

 iiength elongated and reflexed. Calyx deeply ,1-parted, per- 

 sistent ; segments spreading, ovate, acute, obscurely 3-nerved. 

 Petals white, scarcely half the length of the calyx on which 

 they are inserted, oblong, pubescent at the base. Stamens 

 very short, inserted at the base of the calyx ; the alternate 

 ones seated upon 3 minute glands ; anthers minute, roundish, 

 2rcelled. Style inserted between the fVuit, bifid ; stigmas mi- 

 nute, capitate. Utriculi generally 2, roundish, papillose. Seed 

 roundish; " corcu^wm erect, flat ; cotyledons convex, peltate; 

 radicle inferior ; /leris/ierm none.*' JV'k 1 1. 



Hab. In marshes on the banks of rivers. On the Hudson, near 

 Troy. James. Near Hudson. Abbot. Banks of the 

 §chuylkillj near PhilEydeliihia. R afi nesque, April — May. 



231. AMARYLLIS. L, 



Corolla superior, 6-p2talled, irregular. Filaments 

 arising from the orifice of the tube, declined or straight, 

 unequal. Gen. pi. 554^. JYutt. Gen. I. p, 214. 



f Mr. JVuttall informs ma, that, from a recent examination of tliis 

 plant, lie is of opinion, that it should be tha type of a new Natui-al Order, 

 allied to the CHccirEP.aj. 



