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 MENYANTHES CRISTA-GALLI. 



Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Gentiane^. 



Gen. Char. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. infundibuliformis, intus hirta 



(vel cristata). Stigma bilobum. Capsula bivalvis, valvis axi 



placentiferis. 

 Menyanthes Crista-Galli ; foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis renifor- 



mibus crenatis, scapo corymboso, laciniis corollae undulatis cris- 



tatis. (Tab. XXIV.) 

 Menyanthes Crista-Galli, Menzies MSS. 



Hab. In ora occidentali Americas Septentrionalis. D. Menzies. 



Radix horizontalis, crassa, fibrosa, superne squamis magnis, ovatis, 

 fuscis, basibus vaginantibus petiolorum foliorum vetustorum. 

 Folia omnia radicalia, longe petiolata, duas uncias Jonga, qua- 

 tuor lata, reniformia, crenata, nervosa : petioli pollicares, superne 

 canaliculati, basi insigniter dilatati vaginantes. Scapus pedalis 

 teres, glaber, superne rubicundus. Mores corymbosi, pedunculis 

 petiolisque bractea ovata munitis. Calyx profunde quinquefidus, 

 laciniis ovato-lanceolatis. Corolla infundibuliformis, alba, 5-fida, 

 laciniis ovatis, acutis, patentibus, margine undulatis, superne la- 

 mella erecta undulata cristatis. Stamina 5, exserta: Anthercs 

 oblongae, flavae. Pistillum : Germen conicum. Styhis cylindra- 

 ceus, deciduus ; Stigma bilobum, flavum. Capsula conico-oblonga, 

 calyce cincta unilocularis, apice dentibus 4 dehiscens. 



This charming plant is another of Mr. Menzies's interesting 

 discoveries on the north-west coast of America, growing in 

 marshy mountain pastures in Prince William's Sound, and 

 about Cape Edgecombe, in lat. 57°. The crest on the seg- 

 ments of the corolla in this species is exactly similar to that 

 on the flowers of Roxburgh's Menyanthes cristata, which has 

 also white flowers, but with the habit and mode of growth 

 of a Fillarsia. Here, however, there are no hairs upon the 

 corolla, not even at the mouth of the limb, whilst in M. cris- 

 tata that part is hairy. 

 J'^^.l. Flower, i^^^. 2. Capsule. Fig. S. ^^cixon oUhc s^mc: magnifed. 



