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5. Gram IN E A. IToit. Kcw. 

 H ? scapo folioso, pan- I Scape leafy, pa nicled; ra- 

 iculato ; raceniis diNaii- cemes cHvaricate : leaves 



catis ; foliis linearibus, 



g 



CIS. 



lineal*, channelled, glau 

 cons underneath. 



Bot. Mail. No 1599. Pursh, 2. p. 733. 

 Jtoot a ^rnall bulb. Scape about 2 feet hi^h, with small, and fre- 



quently recurved branches. Petals oblong, acuminate. Stamens 

 much fthorter than the petals. 



Found on the mountains of Georgia, \)y Mr. Lyon. Saluda moun- 

 tains, Dr. Macbiide. 



Flowers July — August. 



6. DioicA. 



H? foliis lanceolatis, I Leaves lanceolate, some- 

 ^u!>carnosis, enervi'nis, what succident, without 



radicalihus spathulatis ; 



raccmis simphcii)us, con- 

 fertis, dioicis. E. 



nerves, the radical leaves 



Sim 



d 



Melanthium dioicum, Walt. p. 126. 

 Veratrum luteum, Sp. pi. 4. p. 807. 

 Ilelonias lutea, Hurt. Kew. 2. p. 530. 



^ Hoot tuberous ? pr^morse, perennial. Stem herbaceous, 1 — 2 feet 

 high, slightly angled, i^labrous. liadical leaves 3 — 4 inches long, the 

 stem leaves narrower, becoming almost linear, all entire, veiy gla- 

 brous j pedicels shorter than thf flowers. Petals linear, obtuse, 

 white. In i\\it sterile f.o wets the Jilaments arc longer than the corolla; 

 anthers 2 lobed, affixed Lo the sides of the filanuMits, no rudiment of a 

 germ. In the fertile Jlowers Vmt ftlamentsi are short, imperfect ; germ 

 ilceply 3 furrowed ; sli/le ; stigmas 3, rellected; capsules ovate, ap- 

 pressed to the receptacle, 3 furrowed, 3 celled; seeds many in each 

 celL angled, acute. 



The Linneean specific name is inapplicable, as the flowers are per- 

 fectly white ; when dried^they becfmieycllow. 



Professor Ives, of Xew-Haven, has frequently used the root of this 

 plant, which is very bitter, as a tonic, and much commends its efficacy 

 in checking nausea and vomiting. He exhibits it in the form of in- 

 fusion. 



Grows in damp, poor soils ; vcl'y common. 



Flowers ^Jay. , DevWs hit — Blazing -star. 



The Helonias and its kindred genera, (Melantiuura, VeratruiU and 

 Zigndenus), appear to me yet to require a careful examination. In- 

 stead of forming but one j^enus, as has lately been suggested by some 

 European botanists, the Ilelonias, as now described, soems to contain 

 the rudiments cf three distinct genera., I have bad no opportunity 



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