. LXIV. PTEROSPORA. LXV. SCHWEINITZIA. 



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York. Plant covered with brownish viscid hairs. Stems 

 brownish red or purple, furnished with lanceolate scales at the 

 base. Peduncles filiform, nutant. Corollas white, with a red 

 border. 



^nrfromerfa-flowered Pterospora. FJ. July. PL 1 to 2 

 feet. 



Cult. The plant is not cultivatable. 



XXXVIII. SCHWEINITZIA (named after the Rev. 



Schweinitz, author of a monograph of the American species of the 

 genus Carex, published in Annals of the Lyceum of New 

 York). Ell. fl. car. vol. 2. Nutt. gen. amer. addend. 



LIN. SYST. Decdndria, Monogynia. Calyx 5-leaved ; segments 



concave, equal with the corolla. Corolla campanulate, with a 

 5-cleft border, and a 5-cleft nectarium at the base of the corolla. 

 Stamens 10. Anthers adnate to the filaments, 1-celled, opening 

 from the inverted base by 2 naked pores. Stigma subglobose, 

 closed, internally 5-cleft. Capside 5-celled. ? Seeds ? A 

 small, herbaceous, and probably parasitical plant, destitute of 

 proper leaves and verdure. Scapes scaly. Flowers terminal, 

 aggregate, sessile, bracteate ; bracteas large. 



1 S. CAROLINIA'NA (Ell. fl. car. vol. 2.) 

 of North Carolina, in rich shady woods, 

 scented, reddish-white. 



Carolina Schweinitzia. Fl. Feb. March. 



Cult. The plant is not cultivatable. 



0. H. 

 Flowers 



PL \ foot. 



Native 

 sweet- 



END OF VOL. in. 



GILBERT & RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, 

 ST. JOHN'S SQUARE. 



