178 BECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 



mis distantlbus ; flore e- I scales distant ; flowers 

 recto. Midi. i. p. ^^66. | erect. 



Pursh, I, p. 303. 



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Flowers soVitar J, constantly erect Caimile glokosc. Mich. 



Grows in shad/ woods. Carolina. Midi. 



Flowers 



3. Lanuginosa. Mich. 



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M. scapo spiiifloro ; j Scape bearing flowers 

 bracteis floribusqiie iin- j in a sjilke ; bracteas and 

 dique lanuginosis. Mich. [ flowers hairy on all sides 

 4. p. 260. 



Pursh, I. p. S03. 

 llonotropa hjpopithjs, Walt. p. 15G. 



iJoafsasin all the species, parasitic, growing from the roots of 

 trees. Stem 8— launches high, simple, a little hairv. Leaves mere- 

 ly scales, membranaceous, ovate, obtuse, sessile, croVded at base, ft 

 little hairy. Flowers-ui a terminal spike, on sliort peduncles. Brac- 

 teas resembling the scales, retah oblong, erect. Stamens shorter 

 *iian the petals. Whole plant of a light tan colour. 



Orows in shaded, rich soih, in the middle and upper countty of 

 Carolina and Georgia. St. Stephens ; Dr. Macbride. 



J* lowers 



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Althotigh not strictly within the limits assigned to this work. I in- 

 sert the description of a new genus of plants closely .allied to the 

 Monotropa, which has been nolitely communicated to me bv the Rev. 

 Lew.s de Schweimtr, of Salem, North-Carolina. 

 Mr ^ f' ^"•T^r'"' J'^^.* »"«t^«*» «f tl'e compound name by which 



^ili oltecT'S^'h' ^'^?S"f «^.t!^i« g«""s, to wh.cli Botanical critics 

 ivill oi>jext, tJie name of bchweinitzia may be eiven to it. to comwie- 



re Unit d sttoT' "'"'^ its discovered is rl^nderllVthe botany of 



sivelv known V T\'r f 'f ^^'" ^««" ^e ^^"'^'■^^"J ^"^^ '^^^^"- 

 St&o been ;r;n.- S^^^T^\ ^^ ^^^^"^i^'^ "^^»«-- ^^chweinitz has 

 yet no branch nfn.;Pf^^ ^''^'^"^ ^° *''« "'-^tural order of the Fungi, 



^lONOTROPSIS. ScnwEiNiTz. 



^"^^Ss'Tv\^to"'ou"Sn'^^^^^^ ^"^'^^ ^-' "nguiculato-glbbosls, furnica- 

 adiquant. ' ^''^^ ''^^'^'''' ^"^«"^' 1"^»» longitudine 



^'"l%7^i'^Il\Tir^^'^^ '':r'^ ('• - -^'^^tantl^ Monotro- 

 pwj, ruDro-alba ; hmbo quinn-iefidn. nIKn .u a i„.:,.;;a 



s^ coroUam 



quefid 



