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MICHAUXIA* laevigata. 

 Smooth Michauxia. 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Campanulace^e Juss. § Campanulerc Alph. De Cand. 

 {Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 183.) 



MICHAUXIA L'Herit.— Catyx 8-(idus (v. lO-fidus), sinubiis appen- 

 dicibiis obtectis. Corolla 8-partita (v. 10-partita), rotata. Stamina 8 

 (v. 10), inter se \\ho\"\\ filamentis latissimis, meinhranaceis, basi approxi- 

 niatis ; anlheris flavis, apice leviter cuspidatis. Stylus pilis collectoribus 16 

 (v. 20) ordinibus dispositis tectus. Stigmata 8 (v. 10), filiformia. Ovarium 

 totum iuferum, 8- (v. 10-) locularc, loculamentis lobis calycinis oppositis. 

 Capsula nutans, 8- (v. 10-) valvis, basi del\iscens. Scmina indefinita, ovata, 

 f'errui^inea, receptaculis carnosis ad angulos intcrnos loculanientoium sitis 



inserta. Herbae bicnncs, in Oriente hahitantcs, habitu Campanulis sinubus 



calycis obtectis ct foliis lyratis proximce. — Alph. De Candolle, Monogr. des 

 Canipanulces, p. 211. 



M. Icevujata ; caide leevi, foliis radicalibus indivisis, laciniis calycinis ap- 



pendicibus brevioribus. D. Don MSS. 

 M. laevigata. Vent, hort. eels. p. et tab. 81. Alph. De Cand. I. c. 

 M. decandra. Fischer, sec. eel. Don. 



Folia infcriora oblongo-lanceolata, sessilia, dentata, indivisa, piloso- 

 scabra. Caulis erectus, teres, l(Evis, pallidr viridis, internodiis ramulis 

 paniculcB lomjioribus. Bracteir ovata, denticulalcc, scabrce. Pedunculi 

 subtrijlori. Flores ccrnui, ochroleuci. Calyx 5-Jidus, laciniis ovatis, pa- 

 tentibus, appendicibus sinuum rejlexis ciliato-scabris brevioribus. Petala 10, 

 linear ia, patcntissima, costu dorsali scabru. Stamina \Q, circa slylum con- 

 nivcntia ; fiiamentis rigidis, basi dilatatis, marginatis, ciliatis, antheris 

 linearibus. Stylus antheris duplh longior, cylindraccus, inci'assatus, pilis 

 collectoribus densissi7ni: tectus, polline semper onustis. Stigmata 10, brevia, 

 radiata, glabra. 



A native of Persia, where it was orifrinally found upon 

 Mount Albourg by the French travellers Olivier and 

 Bruguiere, according to the testimony of M. Ventenat. 



• So called after Andre Michaux, a celebrated French Botanical tra- 

 veller in America and Africa. His History of American Oaks, and the 

 materials collected by him for tlie work published by the elder Richard, under 

 the name of Flora Boreali-Americana, are all that remain of him. 



