S36 HEXANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. 



persistent, spreading". ^Inthei^s compressed. Seeds very 

 numerous, terete, caudate. (Nearly allied to JWirthecinr.i.) 



Roots horizontal, ag-J^regate; leaves enslform gramine- 

 ous, arid; scapes naked, often pubescent and scabrous; 

 spike lohed, flowers mostly agg-reg-aied by 3s. 



2. pnsilla. 3. fnibescens. v. v. in Sussex county, Dela- 

 ware. Obs. Petals greenish-white. lincru--obovate, obtuse; 

 scape scabrous and pulverulently pubescent; flowers ag- 

 gregated in 3s, subtended by as many minvite bractes; 

 anthers roundish-cordate, flat, grayisli -purple; capsule 

 brown and indurated, margin of the valves inflected, se- 

 miniferous above, stimmit' bifid. Seed caudate. 4. glu'i- 

 noso. V. V. Abundant around Deti-oit, Michigan territory. 

 -Nearly allied to the preceding; but the petals are oblong- 

 oval. 



Of the genus Tofieln'iai besides the above, tliere is 1 

 species in Europe and another in the Andes of Teru. — '1 lie 

 section here denominated Iriantha is unquestionably a 

 genus distinct from ilie European TofichUa, as well as from 

 the plant of Carolina, 7'. glabra; it approaclics to J\'artliC' 

 ciiim by the seed, but the flowers are calculate, and tiie 

 filaments of the stamina smooth. 



349. SCHEUCHZERIA. L. 



Calix 6-partc(]. Corolla none. Jlnthcrs linoa!*. 

 Stigmas sessile, lateral. Capsules inflafed, dis- 

 tinrt, mostly S-seeded. Seeds smootli, cyliiidric- 

 ovate. with a longitudinal carinate suture, 

 (black.) 



A plant indigenoTis to sphagnosa morasses, with some- 

 Avhat horizontal roots, or a lateral mode ol'growtli; leaves 

 distichally sheathing, those of the infertile sliools very 

 long and attenuated, convex and carinate; on fertile stenus, 

 short; sheaths distinct; flowering stem flexiiosc, fVondose, 

 numerously jointed; peduncles distant, solitary, sheathed; 

 flowers greenish and inconspicuous. 



Species. 1. S. pali/stna v. v In spliagnose cranberry 

 swamps, New Jersey, near Philadelphia, plentiful, but I 

 have not seen it in any other part of America. Oas. Leaves 

 of t!ie infertile shoots near 18 inches long, very narrow 

 and linear. Roots loaded with persistent vestigise; raceme 

 5 to 7-flowered, lowest peduncles longest and subtended 

 by sheathing leaves, which diminish upwards into short 

 bractes. Capsules 3, oval, inflated, with compressed mar- 

 gins. Seeils almost uniformly 2 <n each capsule, '^^ large 

 as those of Garden Balsam {Impatiens chinensis) black and 



