BiRCA* OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 399 



D. palustris L. Wi 1 1 d. Spec. II. p. 424. Bot. Reg, 

 292. M i c h. Fl. I. p. 236. Pursh Fl. I. p. 268. £ I- 

 iiott Sk. I. p. 448. Big. Med. Bot, II. p. 154. t. 37» 

 Walt. Car. p. 131. .4moeiu Acad. W . ■^. 12, t. l.f. 7. 

 Duham. Arb. I. p. 2I2<, 



A shrub about 2 feet high, with exceedingly tough and flexible 

 branches, and a yellowish bark. Leaves alternate, ovate, pale 

 green, on long petioles, very entire, obtuse. Buds 3-flowered, 

 densely villous. Flowers appearing before the leaves. Corolla 

 about half an inch long, yellew ; border irregularly toothed. 

 Stamens 8 ; filaments capillary, inserted into the tube of the 

 Corolla about half way down ; anthers oblong, erect, 2-celled. 

 Style filiform ; stigma sessile. Berry ovate, about the size of 

 a pepper-corn, yellowish when ripe. Seed solitary, large, com- 

 pressed. 



Hab. In shady woods, especially about the base of mountains, 

 April. 



274, JEFFEKSONIA. Barton. 

 Calyx 5-leaved, coloured, deciduous. Corolla 

 8-petallcd, incurvately spreading. Stamens inserted on 

 the receptacle. Capsule obovatc, substipitate, 1 -celled, 

 coriaceous, opening below the summit by a semicircu- 

 lar foramen. Seeds numerous, oblong, arillate at the 

 base. Bart, in Amer. Phil. Trans. III. p. 328. cum 

 icone. Podophylli sp. L. Nat. Ord. Papave- 



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J. diphylla Bart. I.e. Pursh Fl. I. p. 268. Muhl, 

 Cat. p. 40. Bot. Mag. 1513. J. Bartoni M ich. Fl. I. p. 

 237. Podophyllum diphyllum L. JVilld. Spec, II. p. 

 1141. 



Root perennial. Leaf radical, binate, on a long naked footstalk ; 

 leaflets 4—6 inches long, and about 2 broad, truncate at the 

 base, on short petioles, smooth, glaucous beneath ; margin un- 

 dulate, with several large obtuse teeth towards the extremity. 

 Scafie about a foot long, naked, terete, smooth, bearing a single 

 large terminal flower. Calyx sometimes 3 — 4-leaved ; leaflets 

 lanceolate. P^ra/s white, lanceolate, a little longerthanthe calyx, 

 spreading, and somewhat incurved. Stamens much shorter 

 than the corolla; anthers oblong. Gerrnen obovate; style 

 short; s^z^ma peltate, crenate. Ca/2s;i^f' subturbinate, oblique, 

 coriaceous, on a thick pedicel about 2 lines long, which is arti- 

 culated to the scape, opening with a semicircular foramen below 

 the summit, and thus appearing operculate. Seeds numerous, 

 attached to a longitudinal line on the back of the capsule, 



Hab. In Pennsylvania. Muhlenb e rg. 



