158 PEXTAN^DRIA. MOXOGYNIA. 



uniting' with the pflandulous and nectariferous g-erminai 

 disk; disk 5-toothed, obtuse. Petals 5, calycine, often 4 

 and 6, with the same number of stamina, ovate, acute, per- 

 sistent, growing- to the margin of the calix, white, internal- 

 ly villous (seen through a kns), before expansion parallel. 

 Stamina seated at the base of the petals, alternating with 

 the dentures of the g-landulous disk; filaments subulate, 

 about half the lengih of the petals; anthers oval, 2-celled, 

 connected at Uieu- summits to the petals near their base 

 by a fascicle ot yellow filaments — Style terete, simple; 

 stig'ma round, entire; g-erni about 3-seeded, ovula pendu- 

 lous, attaclied to tiie apex of a filiform contractile funicu- 

 lus arising fromihe base of the capsule. Capsule nearly 

 globular, and angular, 1-seeded, not opening, thin and 

 brittle, not osseous, coated by the base of the calix. Seed 

 round, about the size of a small pea, consisting almost 

 entirely of a large rarnose and oily perisperm, embryon 

 inverted, small, iiat, nearly in the axis of the penspcrm; 

 radicle superior, thicl&and oblase; cotyledons linear and 

 acute. 



Obs. The connecting fibres of the petals, appear to be 

 a sejiaration of a portion of tlie central vessels, for at that 

 ])oint the petal is greenish and callous, and the central 

 Jierves there commencing trichotomously, disappear above 

 the connectilo fibres, and the rest of the petal is then 

 white. 



'I'his plant has some relation to the preceding, and they 

 both appertain to the Natural Order Sant Ai.ACEiE of R. 

 Brown, approaching at the same time very nearly to the 

 Rham.vki of Jussieu. The genus here proposed may 

 j)robably include some of the species of Theiium indige- 

 nous to the Cape of Good Hope. 



234. QUERIA. L, Anychia. Michaux, 



. Calix comiiveiit. 5-])ar(c(l, segments oblong, 

 apex subsaceatc (or furnished with an arched 

 callosity.) Corolla none. Filaments of the an- 

 thers distinct; intermediate, setai none. Stigma 

 subcapitate. Capsule utriculai*, not opening. 

 Seed It subreniforni. 



Herbaceous and dichotomous; leaves opposite, stipu- 

 late; stipules scariose, flowers minute, bracteolate, dicho- 

 tomal and terminal; stamina 3 to 5. A genus scarcely 

 distinct from Paronychia^ intermediate with it and Her' 

 niaria. 



Species. \. Q. canadensis. Stem erect or spreading, 

 dichotojnous, much branched, retrorsely pubescent; leaves 



