530 Prof. Don’s Monograph of Streptopus, &c. 
Michaux in Canada, and on the mountains of North Carolina; and Pursh 
states it to be likewise a native of the mountains of Pennsylvania. It is 
evidently a scarce plant, having been seen by but few American botanists in 
a wild state; and Elliott, in his interesting Flora of South Carolina and Georgia, 
was obliged to describe it from a dried specimen sent him by a botanical cor- 
respondent at Philadelphia. 
The plant flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew in May 1812, having 
been introduced by the late Mr. John Lyon from North Carolina, and a figure 
of it was published in the September number of the Botanical Magazine for 
that year. In Dr. Boott’s Herbarium there are specimens collected by him in 
the State of Vermont, and others gathered by Mr. Audubon in the Esquimaux 
Islands, a group of islets in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off the south coast of 
Labrador. Michaux’s figure of this plant erroneously represents the peduncles 
as convolute at their middle. 
3. S. simplex, glaber; pedunculis rectis! nudis, sepalis obtusis, antheris cor- 
dato-lanceolatis obtusis, stigmatibus styli sublongitudine, baccæ loculis 
10—12-spermis. 
Streptopus simplex. Don Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 48. Schult. fil. Syst, vii. 
p. 312. 
S. candida. Wall. Cat. n. 5112. 
Hab. in Emodi montibus ad Gosaingthan (Wallich) ; in montibus Kamaon- 
ensibus, R. Blinkworth. V. (v.s. sp. in Herb. Wall.) 
Caulis erectus, ramosus, teres, glaber, lævissimus, bi- v. tripedalis, inferné nudi- 
usculus. Folia amplexicaulia, cordato-oblonga, acuminata, multinervia, 
membranacea, utrinque margineque glabra, suprà lætè viridia, lævissima, 
subtüs glauca, nervisque prominulis subcostata, 3-pollicaria, sesquipol- 
licem lata: lobis posticis rotundatis, invicem se imbricantibus. Flores 
majores, nivei, Pedunculi capillares, glabri, uniflori, sesqui- v. bipol- 
licares, recti, recurvati, nudi, nec appendiculati, nec medio convoluti, 
Sepala elliptico-oblonga, obtusa, semuncialia, apice patentia, nec recurvata. 
Filamenta brevissima, hinc plana, inde angulo elevato carinata. Antheræ 
cordato-lanceolatæ, obtuse, filamentis tripló longiores. Stylus trigonus, 
` ovario duplo longior. Stigmata 3, longiuscula, recurvato-patentia, stylo 
