SUPPLEMENT— LRWISIEiE. G?? 



Nuttall's specimens. Cliainisso's plant is from Unalasrhka I — " C. stoloni- 

 fera," mcntionotl umlcr tliLs species, slioiild liavc been C. sariiienlosa. 



14. C. porvifulia. — The drawin"; of Mo(ino, in l*rof. DeCandollc's pos- 

 session, accurately represents our plant. 



G. MONTIA, p. 202. 



M. fontana. — Add syn. i\I. lamprosi)cm]a, Cham. S^- Srhlcrhl. .' in f/,n- 

 naa, 6. p. 5G4. (Seeds larger, less tuberculate, shining. — Unalaschka.) — 

 Add also, Newfoundland, Ft/laic ! 



SuiioRDEu LEWISIEiE. Hook. 



Ord. SpaDlalumetc, Nutt. 



Sepals 6-8. broadly ovate, slightly united at the base, potaloid, 

 convolutn-imbricatc in a;stivation, persistent. Petals 8-lU (10-12, 

 Null.), imbricate in a;stivation, oblong-linear, or some of the outer 

 ones ovate, spreading, marcescent and at length twisting around the 

 stamens and pistil. Stamens numerous, inserted with the petals at 

 the base ot^ the calyx : filaments slender, shorter than the petals : 

 anthers linear-oblong, cleft at each end, introrse. Ovary globose- 

 ovoid, slightly stipitatc, striated, 1-ccllcd, with a free central pla- 

 centa, niany-ovuled : style persistent, short : stigmas 6-8, filiform, 

 downy. Capsule globose, coriaceo-membranaceous, l-cellcd, sepa- 

 rating transversely at the base, and there somewhat 6-valved. Seeds 

 numerous, campulitropous, reniform-globosc, on long funiculi, which 

 arise from the base of the cell : testa crustaceous, smooth and 

 shining. Embryo terete, curved around the outside of mealy 

 albumen : cotyledons long, unequal. — An herb, with large and thick 

 fusiform roots, which branch below : the bark (brownish externally) 

 bright red withiti : the inner portion white and farinaceous. Leaves 

 densely imbricated on the short thick caudex, linear-oblong, thick 

 and succulent. Scapes (short) fleshy, articulated above the middle, 

 where they arc involucrate with 5-7 subulate membranaceous 

 scales, 1-flowered. Flower large : petals rose-color. 



7. LEWISIA. Pursh, Jl. I. p. 3C8 ; Nutl. in jour. acad. Philad. 7. p. 

 23, t. 2; Hook. hot. misc. 1. p. 344, t. 70, ty hot. Bcecheij, suppl. p. 

 334, t. 86. 



Character same as of the Suborder. 

 L. rediviva (Pursh, 1. c.) 



Throughout the interior of Oregon, near the mountains, in dry prairies 

 along n\'er»^ Leivis, Douglas! Drummond ! Mr. IVijelh ! J\Ir. Tohnic ! — 

 This very singular plant has been examined by Nutfall, who received rather 

 imperfect specimens from Mr. Wyeth, and recently by Hooker (who had 

 previously figured the llower-liud-^, &c.), whose excellent specimens were 

 furnished by Mr. Tolmie. The ])lant proves, as Hooker long ago suspected, 

 more nearly allied to Porlulacaceae than to anv otiier family, (iiiiic too 

 nearly, wc are convinced, to render its complete separation allowable ; and 



