PEl?fTANDIllA. MONOGYNIA. 14j 



3.) Capsule 2-ccI!efl, 2-sceded, not opening. 

 Seed ovate, attached to the summit of the recep- 

 tacular axis by means of an umbilical filament. 



Shrubs with subverticillated branches, verticills distant; 

 leaves alternate, entire, without stipules; racemes terminal, 

 clustered; flowers small and white, pedicells bibracteolate. 



Species. 1. C. carolhdana. Of .his genus there i6 ano- 

 ther species described by Michaux or llichardas grosving 

 in the islands of the Antilles. 



223. GALAX. L, Euythrorhiza. Mich, So- 



lAXANDRA. Persoon, (Beetle-weed.) 



Calix 5-parted, persistent. Coro/^a twice the 

 length of the calix, 5-pctalled: petals affixed to 

 the base of the stamina. Anthenjerous tube 10- 

 cleft, the 5 shorter segments bearing the anthers. 

 Stigma S-lobed. Capsule S-celled, 3-valved, 

 valves septiferous in the centre. Seeds many, 

 affixed to a central axis. 



Herbaceous, perennial and sempervirent; leaves coria- 

 ceous, all radical, reniform, and crenate on the margin; 

 scape naked, many flowered; flowers small and white, 

 disposed in along spike. ((snot Ginmera mageUanictr. 

 and the Laupanke of Feuillee, 2. t. 31. allied to this genus?) 



Species. 1. G. aplnjlla. A subalpine plant, abundant 

 en the margins of running springs, beneath the shade 

 of Kalmia latif'Aia or Hhodotkndrum maxirnvm, through- 

 out the high mountains of Virginia, Tennessee, Carolina 

 and Georgia. Tiie root is red and astringent. The 

 whole plant spontaneously exhales a stercoraceous odor, 

 which is not sensible in the bruised leaf! It is from 

 this singular pi'operty that it has obtained the name of 

 Beetle-weed, or a vulgarism equivalent to it by the inha- 

 bitants and hunters in the mountains of North Carolina. 



TJiere is but one species of this genus and peculiar to 

 North America. 



224. IMPATIENS. L. (Balsam, Touch-me-not.) 



Calix 2-leaved. Corolla 4-petaiIed, irregular; 

 the 2 interior petals unequally bilobed,- lepan- 

 thium (nectarium L.) hooded, calcarate. An- 







