MENYANTHES. C. GENTIANACEZ. 455. 
single large, terminal, blue flower. Jn.—I understand that this interesting plant 
has been rediscovered on the White Mts. by Mr. Abel Storrs. 
9. FRASERA. Walter. 
In honor of John Fraser, an American cultivator of exotics. pa 
Flowers mostly tetramerous; petals united at base, oval, spread- 
ing, deciduous, each with 1 or 2 bearded, orbicular glands in the mid- 
dle; style 1; stigmas 2, distinct; capsule compressed, I-celled ; seeds 
few, imbricate, large. elliptic, margined—% Showy and tall, with oppo- 
site or verticillate leaves. 
F. Carouinensis. Walt. (EF. Walteri. Mz. and 1st edit.) Columbo. 
St. tall, erect, glabrous, branched above; lvs. verticillate, oblong-lanceo- 
late, acutish, sessile, feather-veined, entire or wavy ; panicle compound, pyra- 
midal, leafy, verticillate ; cal. segments acute, shorter than the oblong, obtusish 
etals; gland solitary, oval-orbicular.—A tall and showy plant, in moist woods, 
Wooice: N. Y. to Car. W. to Ohio! Ia.! Ky., Ill. Stem dark purple, 4—7—9f! 
high, perfectly straight, 1 -2’ thick at base. Leaves smooth, subcarnose, 3—12! 
by 1—3’, in whorls of 4—6, rarely opposite. Branches of the panicle also 
whorled, spreading-erect.. Flowers tetramerous, 1}’ diam. Petals greenish 
with blue dots and a large purple gland near the base. June, July —Highly 
valued as a tonic. : 
Trizsg2. MENYANTHE #&.— #stivation of the corolla induplicate. Aquatic 
or marsh herbs. Sheaths of the leaves alternate. 
10. LIMNANTHEMUM. Gmel. 
Gr. Avy, a lake, avSos, a flower; from its aquatic habitat. 
Calyx 5-parted; corolla subcampanulate, with a short tube and 
spreading, 5-lobed limb, deciduous, segments obtuse ; stamens 5, alter- 
nating with 5 glands; capsule l-celled, without valves; placentz 
fleshy, many-seeded.—% submersed, generally in stagnant water. Lvs. 
floating, on long petioles. 
L. racunoésa. Gmel. (Villarsia. Ph. V. trachysperma. Mz.) Lake-flower. 
Floating; dvs. reniform, subpeltate, scabrous above, spongy and lacunose 
beneath; fs. umbellate, from the summit of the stem (petiole ?); cor. smooth; 
glands from the base of the petals, stipitate ; cal. shorter than the capsule; seeds 
muricate.—A curious aquatic, in ponds and lakes, N. Y.! to Car. The stems 
are 1, 2 or 3f long, according to the depth of the water, bearing at the top three 
kinds of organs; the summit is prolonged into a petiole bearing a leaf about an 
inch in diameter, resembling that of Nymphza; on the upper side is an umbel 
of small white flowers, blossoming successively at the surface of the water, and 
beneath, a cluster of short, simple, tuberous radicles, each of which is capable 
of producing a new plant. July. 
ll. MENYANTHES. Tourn. 
Gr. pnvn, o month ; avsos ; in allusion to its supposed properties as an emenagogue. 
Calyx 5-parted; corolla funnel-form, limb spreading, 5-lobed, vil- 
lous within; stamens 5; style 1; stigma bifid; capsule 1-celled. 
M. Trirouista. Buck Bean. ae 
Lws. trifoliate—Grows in swamps, margins of ponds, &c., N. Am. N. of 
latitude 38°. This fine plant arises from large, black roots descending deep 
into the boggy earth. Stem 8—12’ high, round. Leaves on long, round foot- 
stalks stipuled at base. Leaflets obovate. Peduncle long, naked, terminal, 
bearing a pyramidal raceme of flesh-colored flowers. Pedicels thick, bracteate 
at base. Sepals obtuse, about a third as long as the corolla. Petals acute, 
about as long as the stamens, remarkably and beautifully distinguished by the 
soft, fringe-like hairs at the base and in the throat of the tube. Bitter herbs, 
actively medicinal, sometimes substituted for hops. May. . 
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