^TfiiLLiuM. HEXANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. 377 



jg. album Ph.: flowers smaller: petals Avhite. Pursh 

 I.e. Elliott I.e. Bot. Jl/ag-. 1027. T. rhomboideum 

 f, album Mich. 1. c. 



Hab. In similar situations; rare. Near Albany, New-York. 

 Eights, See. 



G. T. pendulum IVil I d.: peduncle inclined ; flower pen- 

 dulous ; petals ovate, shortly acuminate, flat, spreading, 

 nearly equal to the ovate acuminate calyx ; leaves roundish- 

 rhomboid, acuminate, subsessile. Willd. Hort, Berol, I. 

 t. 35. Pursh FL\.^,^Q, E I li o 1 1 Sk\ I. p. 42Q. 



Root perennial. Stem a foot high. Leaves acute at the base, 

 but sessile, with a short abrupt acuminalion. Peduncle about 

 an inch long, inclined or recurved. Leaflets of the calyx ovate- 

 lanceolate. Corolla white, with pink veins, a little longer than 

 the calyx. 



Hab. On the mountains of Pennsylvania. May, Pursh. 

 This species strongly resembles T. cernuum. 



7. T. grandiflorum Sal i s b. : peduncle inclined ; flower 

 somewhat erect ; petals spathulatc-lanceolate, connivent at 

 the base, much longer than the calyx ; leaves broadly rhom- 

 boid-ovate. Hort. Kezo. ed. 2. II. p. 329. Parad. Lond. 

 LI. Bot. Mag. B35. Pursh F/. I. p. 246. Elliott 

 Sk. I. p. 427. J^ utt. Gen. 239. T. rhomboideum o. gran- 

 (lijlorum M i c h, Fl. I. p. 216. 



Root praemorse, with large fasciculate fibres. Stem about 10 

 inches high. Leaves sessile, acute at the base, abruptly acu- 

 minaie. Peduncle somewhat inclined, an incli and a half in 

 length. Leaflets of the calyx ovate-lanceolate, acute. Co- 

 rolla white, becoming dark rose-coloured ; fietals an inch and 

 a half, or 2 inches in length, obovate, with a very short abrupt 

 acumination. Stigmas nearly as long as the gernien, spread- 

 ing. Berries dark purple, 



Hab. In Pennsylvania. Muhlenberg. In Vermont. E a- 

 ton. May. 



My specimens are from Black Rock, Lake Erie, where 

 they were collected by Prof. Douglass; so that the geo" 

 graphical range of this species is from Canada to Carolina. 



^Qi. RUMEX. L. 



Perianth 6-leavecl. Nut triquetrous, covered by the 

 3 interior valviform leaves of the perianth. Stigmas 

 many-cleft. Gen. pi. 613. .Viitt. Gen. J. p. 240. 

 .Tuss. p. 82. Ijum. III. t. 271. Nat. Orel. Poly- 

 gon E/e J u s s, . Dork. 

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