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POLYANDRIA MOKOGYNU. 



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1. Mexic 



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psiil 



5 



vibus; foliis pinnatifi 



dis 



incisis 



floribus axillarib 



spmosis 



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Capsules 5rvalyed 

 leaves pinnatifid, not 

 ched. SDinv; flowers 



spiny 



Sp.pl. 2. p. 1148. Walt. p. 153. Pursli 2. p. 366. 



Annual. Stem erect, about 3 feet high, branching, armed with small 

 . prickles, and when broken or wounded discharging a coloured sap. 

 Leaves ahernate, sessile, embracing the stem, lobed and angled somewhat 

 glaucous, glabrous, but with the margins and veins underneath armed with 

 prickles. Fhwers solitary, axillary. Peduncles 1—3 inches long. Ca- 

 lyx caducous. Leaflets broad, oval, concave, prickly, with the dorsal horn 

 compressed and projecting beyond the summit. Petals 6, obtuse, much 

 larger than the calyx, yellow. Stamens very numerous as long as 

 the germ. Germ superior, furrowed, spiny. Style very short. Stigma 

 dilated, 5 lobed with the lobes reflected, forming 5 cylindrical tubes. Cap- 

 mle oval, spiny, divided about halfway dowp into 5 valves; 1 celled. Seed& 

 numerous, globose, reticulate, attached to the interior angle of the valve. 



The variety with white flowers is an ornamental plant, and is probably 

 a distinct species, but the notes which I formerly took have been mislaid, 

 and I have had no opportunity for a few years past of comparing the two 

 plants in a living state. . ' 



exotic 



and 



Augu: 



SANGUINAHIA. Gqn. Pl. 878, 



. Calyx 2 phyllus, ca- 

 ducus. Petala 8-14. 

 Capsula superior, utr- 

 inque attenuata,2val 



Calyx 2 leaved, ca-^ 

 ducous. Petals 8-14. 

 Capsule superior, ta-! 



pering at each end, 2 

 vis 1 locularis. Reeep- [ valved, 1 celled. Re- 



filiformia, ceptacles 2, filiform. 



taenia 

 marginalia. 



marginal. 



1. Canadensis, 



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Sp. pl. 2. p. 1 140. Gron. Virg. p. 80. Wah. p. 153. Mich. I. p. 309. 

 Pursh. 2. p. 366. Bigelow Med. Bot. 1. p. 75. i.j. 



Root perennial, oblong, tuberous, succulent, externally brown, emitting 

 ^hen cut or broken a bright orange coloured juice. Stem 0. A single 

 ?ai and flower generally proceed from each bud of the tuber enveloi^ 



t base wiUi glaucous and somewhat succulent sheaths. Petioles 2—4 



