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the leaves, and also of admitting them to a more free exposure to the air and 
light. 
The American specimens differ in no respect from the European ones, except 
in their shorter leaves and peduncles. 
2. S.roseus, hirtellus; foliis ciliatis, pedunculis recurvatis subbifloris, sepalis 
lanceolatis acuminatis, antheris bicuspidatis filamentorum longitudine, 
stigmatibus stylo 6-pló brevioribus, baccæ loculis 4—6-spermis. 
Streptopus roseus. Mich. Fl. Bor. Amer. i. p. 201. f. 18. (mala). Pursh Fi. 
Amer. Sept. i. p.232. Sm. in Rees Cyclop. in loco. Elliott Carol. i. p. 392. 
— Spreng. Syst. ii. p. 98. Schult. fil. Syst. vii. p. 312. 
Uvularia rosea. Pers. Syn. i. p. 360. Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1489. (bona). 
Hab. in Caroline borealis montibus, et in Canada (Michaux); in Vermontiá 
(Boott); in Sinüs Si Laurentii insulis Esquimaux dictis. Audubon. Y. 
Fl. Junio. (v.s. sp. in Herb. Boott.) 
Caulis erectus, teres, striatus, simplex v. ramosus, pedalis v. sesquipedalis, 
inferné nudiusculus, foliisque imperfect evolutis convoluto-vaginatis mu- 
nitus : striis pilis brevissimis patulis copiose? ornatis. Folia amplexicaulia, 
cordato-lanceolata, acuminata, multinervia, membranacea, margine tenu- 
issimé ciliata, utrinque glabra, suprà viridia, lævia, subtüs glauca, nervis- 
que prominulis subcostata, 3-pollicaria, pollicem et ultrà lata; suprema 
minis cordata, atque vix amplexicaulia. Flores rosei, parüm majores. 
Pedunculi capillares, subbiflori, recurvati, nec medio convoluti, dens? 
pubescentes, semi- v. pollicares, in superiore parte caulis plerumque sim- 
plices, uniflori, appendiculati. Sepala lanceolata, acuminata, apice recur- 
vato-patentia. Stamina perianthio vix dimidio breviora: filamenta lon- 
giuscula! hinc plana, inde linea elevatà carinata: antheræ filamentorum 
longitudine, basi sagittatæ, apice bicuspidato-aristatæ ! Stigmata 3, re- 
curvata, truncata, stylo 6-pló breviora. Stylus staminibus longior. Bacca 
sphaerica, præcedentis magnitudine, 3-locularis: loculis 4—6-spermis. 
Semina obovato-oblonga, parüm curvula, longitudinaliter sulcata, apice 
chalazà orbiculata fulyà aucta. 
A very elegant species, bearing numerous drooping pink blossoms, which 
are rather larger than those of the preceding species. It was discovered by 
