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superantia, erecto-patula. Filainenta subulata. Antlicrac bi- 

 loculares, cordatae, apiee emarginatae, dorso affixae, intror- 

 sae. Ovariuni libcruin, scssile, subglobosum, triloculare; 

 ovula in loculis geinina, collateralia, peltatim affixa j Co- 

 luinna stylina brevissima. Stigma truncato-obtusuni, integruin, 

 papillosum. Bacca subglobosa, 1-2-sperma. Scmina subglo- 

 bosa, laevia, fusccscentia ? ; testa tenuissima, albumini carti- 

 lagineo-carnoso arctissiine adnata. Einbryo parvus, subcla- 

 vulato-cylindraceus, rectus, subaxilis, in extremitate albuminis 

 cbalazae opposita inclusus. tthixoma crassiusculum, hori- 

 xontale, fibris radicalibus ramosis dense obsitum. Caulis 

 erectus, simplex, foUatus. Folia sparsa, brevissime pctio- 

 lata, oblouga, acumiuata, striato-ncrvosa, nervis snbtiliter 

 rcticulato-anastomosantibus, membranacea ; petiolo busi am- 

 plcxicauli. Panicula terminalis, simplex, erecta ; jiores 

 pediccllati, solitarii, in ramis racemosi, albidi; pediccllis 

 basi bracteolatis. 



1. S. RACEMOSA Desfonl. in Ann. du Mus. Paris.9. p. 51. 

 Redoute, Lil. 4. /. 230. Pursh. Flor. 1. 234. Nutl. Gen. 1. 225. Ell. Bot. 

 1.395. Beck. Bot. 358 Schidt. Syst. 7. 303. Hook. Flor. Bor.-Am. 

 2.176. Torrey.Flora ofNew-York. 298./. 130 AsaGray'sBotA91. 

 Caule altcrnc folioso ; foliis sessilibus, obiongo-ovalibus, acumi- 

 natis, nervosis, pubescentibus ; floribus ferniinalibus, racemoso- 

 paniculatis. Pursh. Convallaria racemosa Linn. Spec. 452. (Corn. 

 Canad. t. 37. Moris. Sect. 13. /. 4. /. 9.) IVilld. Spec. 2. 1G2. 

 Bol. Mag. t. 899. Mich. Flor. 1. 202. 2%. Bot. 80. Torr. Flor. 

 1. 354. Majanthemum racemosum Link. Enum. 1. 343. Polygo- 

 nastrum racemosum Moench. Melh. 637. — In moutosis sylva- 

 ticis Americac borcalis. (A Canatla atl Carolinam, in California, 

 Rocky - Mountains, Fl. Saskatehawan.) 24. — Rhizoma horizon- 

 tale, fibris crcherrimis ramosis tlensissime ohsitum. Caulis suh- 

 bipedalis, ereclns, tcres, glaher, apicc pilosiusculus, foliatus. **) 

 Folia sparsa, oblonga, acuminata, hasi obtusa ct hrevissime pe- 

 tiolata, striato-nervosa, nervis 7 robustioribus, memhranacea, 

 utrinque pilis minutissimis ohsita, ciliolata, 4|-5i-poIlicaria, 21- 

 25 lin. lata. Panicula tcrminalis, simplcx (racemus compositus), 

 pcdunculata, erecta, 2-3-pollicaris ; pedunculo (1-1 j-pollicari), 

 rhachi ramisque hirtellis; his simplicihus, sparsis, patulis, |-1- 

 j)ollicarihus, a hasi ad apicem racemoso-niultifloris. Flores pc- 

 dicellati, sparsi, minuti (magnitudine Majanthenii hifolii); pctli- 

 ccllis lineam longis, basi unibractcolatis. Pcrigonium 6-phylluni, 

 alho-flavescens vel viridi-alhum (Schult.) ; foliolis angusto-ohlon- 



°) Ovula anatropa. Entll. 



*) Caulis compresso-angulosus, sulcatus, 1-3-pedalis. Sclnilt. 



