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coniiiventlbus. Capsiila I connivent. Capsule 3 an- 



3-angularis, 3 locularis. | gled, 3 celled. 



1. Capitatx. M[CH. 



T- floribus in capitulo [ Flowers in a terminal 

 terniiiiali ; germine an* head; angles of the germ 

 gulis subaptero. E. | scarcely winged. 



Mich. 1- p. 19. PUrsh, 1. p. 28. 

 Anon, capital. Walt, p, 69. 



Root fibrous, annual ? Stem erect, setaceous, 6 — 8 inches high, g?a* 

 brous. Leaves alternate, subulate, very minute. Corolla white, di- 

 lated at base, clothing and adhering to the capsule. 



Grows in damp soils in the middle districts of South -Carolina. Da^ 



Macbride— -Mr. Herbemont. 



Flowers September. Cluster 'flowered Tripterella^ 



2. CCBRULEA, 



T. floribus paucis | Flowers few, in a ter- 



acemo termi- J minal raceme: angles of 



(2-5) 



nali ; germine angulis I the germ distinctly 

 alato. I ed. 



Burmania biflora, Sp. pi. 2. p. 16. Pursli, 1. p. 217. 

 Clajton, 49. No. 248. 



Root fibrous, annual ^ 5fem herbaceous, erect, setaceous, 2 — 4 tncTies 



ler segments 



liigh. Leaves minute, subulate. Bracteas ? 2, unequal, small, lance- 

 olate, concave, the lower one longer. Valyx 0. Corolla one petalled, 6 

 parteil, bright azure; base clothing the jrerm; tube contracted; bor- 

 der six parted ; 3 segments apparently eiterior, large, acute, erect, co 

 naceous in the centre, memtiranaceous along the margin; the 3 smal- 



_ !nts linear, coriaceous, inflexed, connivent. Filaments 3, vei-y 

 short, thick, inserted into the tube of the corolla. Anthers 2 \obed, 

 yellow. Germ inferior.' oblong, 3 sided, angles prominently winged; 

 wings and germ azure. %/« filiform, rather thick, as long as^thft 

 stamens, 5 cleft. Stigmas 3, globose, apparently cleft on the sides. 

 Capsule 3 celled, 3 valved, winged. &eeds many in each cell, oval, 

 attached to a central receptacle. 



Grows id wet ground among Sphagnum palustre, &c. near Savan- 

 liah, Mr. Oemler ; also 1 mile from Bee's Creek, along the road t» 

 Purysburgh. * 



Flowers October— November. , Blue Trlpierella. 



I have no hesitation in referring to this plant the Burmannia bifloia 

 Lmnseus. The description of Clayton applies minutely.' The "S 

 segments from the side of the pericarp resemblini; the feathered, of au 

 arrow," agree with the dilated, t ough not actually fcatlierd wings of 

 the capsule. The size, the habitat, the time of ttowerin-, all accord. I 

 should, therefore, at once have placed the genus Burmaunia here; 



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