534 Prof. Don’s Monograph of Streptopus, &c. 
tached in the capacity of naturalist. It bears a close resemblance to some 
species of Disporum; and it moreover agrees with that genus in its sepals 
being produced into a pouch at their base. The flowers, which are also ter- 
minal and in pairs, are twice the size of those of the preceding, and the style 
is copiously hairy. | 
Sir J. E. Smith, in * Rees’s Cyclopedia,” refers to this under Uvularia 
puberula of Michaux, a plant with which the American botanists of the pre- 
sent day appear to be entirely unacquainted. It is unquestionably true that 
several examples do occur of plants being common to the mountains of the 
Southern States, and the western regions of North America ; but it is scarcely 
probable that Michaux could have overlooked the striking peculiarities of the 
terminal inflorescence, saccate sepals, and hairy style; indeed his description 
seems to be wholly at variance with the present plant, 
