S3S DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



S. ViRClNICtJM. 



A. foliis solitariis, ro- 

 tundato-cordatis, glabiis, 



coriaceis ; flore subsessi- 

 li ; calyce extus glabro, 

 breviter campanulato. 

 Mich. 1. p. ^79. 



Sp, pi. 2. p. 83S. Pursh, 2. p. 597. 



Very similar In habit to the preceding species. Leaves spotted or 

 lather clouded, and handsomelj variegated. 

 Grows in shaded, rockj soils.^ 

 Flowerg 



Leaves solitary, cor- 

 date, nearly round, gla- 

 brous, coriaceous ; flower 

 nearly sessile ; calyx ex- 

 ternally glabrous, shorty 



npanulate. 



3. Aripolium. Mich. 



A. foliis subl\astato-cor- I Leaves somewhat has 

 datis ; calyce urceolato, tate, cordate ; calyx urce 

 limbo trifido, conniverite, [ olate, with the border I 



pubescente. E. | cleft, connivingj pubes 



cent within. 



- Mich- 1. p. 280. Pursh, 2. p. 597. 

 A. Virgiuicum, Walt. p. 14 



Root tuberous, creeping, thick. Leaves several from each root, 

 generally acute, the young ones pubescent on the margins and under 

 surface, variegated. Fetiofes long, pubescent. Flotbers just rising 

 to the surface of the ground. Calijx dark purple. Filaments 12* 

 very short. Anthers 2 lobed, linear, attached to the sides of the fila- 

 ments ; lobes distinct. Germ occupying the bottom of the calyx^ 

 thick, cylindrical, concave at the eummit. Styles? six, eiect, at- 

 tached to the margins of the germs, scarcely longer than the stamens. 

 ^tigma obliquely truncate, 2 horned. Capsule coriaceous. Sesds. 

 Jew in each cell, attached to a central receptacle. 



J his species, which I have most carefully examined, appears to m 

 evidently hexagynous. 



Grows in fertile, loose soils. Very common. 

 Flowers March— April. 



BEJARIA. Gen. PL. 811. 



Calyx 7-fidus. Petala j Calyx 7 cleft. Pefa^^ 

 7. Stamina 14. Capsula I 7. Stamens 14. C(^P' 



74ocularis, pol>sperma. | ade 7 celled, many seed- 

 ed. 



