9ECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Q75 



ous; anthers spotted, pores truncate, divergent; germ sur- 

 rounded at the base by a glandular ring. Style extreme- 

 ly short, hid in the umbilical depression of the germ; stig- 

 ma convex, orbicular, disk cloven into 5 angular segments; 

 germ somewhat conic. Capsule 5-celled; septa medial, 

 artificially bipartile, coalescing below in the receptacular 

 axis, margins of the valves destitute of connecting fila- 

 ments, beginning to open at the summit; receptacle 5-lo- 

 bed, pendulous, lobes bipartile. Seeds similar to Pyrola. 



2. maculata. — Scape 1 to 3-flo\vered, sometimes with 12 

 stamina and 6 petals, fliowers white; disk of the stipe 

 which supports the filaments entirely villous; leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, incisely serrate, discolored. Hab. Indigenous 

 also to the North West Coast of America. — Menzies. 



Probably both species of this genus will be found also 

 in East Asia and Hlurope.— The disposition of the pores at 

 the base of the anthers in place of the summit, in this and 

 the preceding genus, adduces an additional affinity to the 

 genus Monotropa; we learn that there exists also a leaf- 

 less species of Pyrola^ on the North West Coast. V. En- 

 cycl. 



391. LEDUM, i. (Labrador-tea.) 



Calix 5 -cleft. Petals 5. Stamina exserted. 

 Capsule 5-celled, opening at the base. (Stami- 

 na also 5.) 



Low shrubs with coriaceous leaves, which are revolute 

 on the margin, and commonly tomentose on the under 

 surface; flowers white, in terminal corymbs, peduncles 

 long and 1-floWered, bracteate at the base. 



Species. 1. L. palustre. 2. latifolium. The leaves of 

 this species are said to be a good succedanum for tea. 

 Indigenous also to Greenland. 3. buxifolium, capsule 

 ovate, opening at tlie summit; leaves smooth on both 

 sides. Probably a distinct genus, but requires further ex- 

 amination. This species is extremely abundant on the 

 highest summits of the Catawba ridge in North Carolina. 



Of this small genus L.palustre, is also indigenous to the 

 north of Europe. 



392. CLE THRA, L. 



Calix 5-parted, persistent. Petals 5. Style 

 persistent; Stigma short and trifid. Capsule 3- 

 celled, 3.valved, enclosed by the calix. 



