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5.) Capsule 2-cclled, 2-seeded, not opening. 

 Seed ovate, attached to the summit of the recep- 

 tacular axis by means of an umbilical filament* 



Shrubs with subverticillated branches, verticills distant; 

 leaves alternate, entire, without stipules; racemes terminal, 

 clustered; flowers small and white, pedicells bibracteolate. 



Species. 1. C. curoliidana. Of ihis genus tliere is ano- 

 ther species described by Michauxor Richard as growing 

 in the islands ot the Antilles. 



223. GALAX. L, Ertthrorhiza. Mich. So- 



LANANDRA. Fcrsooiu (Beetlc-wecd.) 



Calix 5-parted, persistent. Coro//a twice the 

 length of the calix, 5 petalled: petals affixed to 

 the base of the stamina. Anthci^feroiis tube 10- 

 cleft, the 5 shorter segments bearing the anthers. 

 Stigma 3-lobed. Capsule 3-cellcd, 3-valved, 

 valves septiferous in the centre. Seeds many, 

 affixed to a central axis. 



Herbaceous, perennial and sempervircnt; leaves coria- 

 ceous, all radical, reniform, and crenate on the margin; 

 scape naked, many flowered; flowers small and white, 

 disposed in a long spike ^ (Is not Gvnnera inagellanica 

 and the Laupanke of Feuil'ee, 2. t. 31. allied to this genus?) 



Species. 1. G. aphylla. A subulpine plant, abundant 

 on the margins of running springs, beneath the shade 

 of Kalmia latifoUa or Jihododemh^um maximvm, through- 

 out the high mountains of Virginia, Tennessee, Carolina, 

 and Georgia. The root is red and astringent. The 

 whole plant spontaneously exhales a stercoraceous odor, 

 which is not sensible in the bruised leaf! It is from 

 this singular property that it has obtained the name of 

 . Beetle- weed, or a vulgarism equivalent to it by the inha- 

 bitants and hunters in the mountains of North Carolina. 



There is but one species of this genus and peculiar to 

 North America. 



224. IMPATIENS. /.. (Balsam, Touch-me-not.) 



Ccdix 2-leaved. Corolla 4-petaliod, irregular; 

 the 2 interior petals unequally bilobed^ lopan- 

 thiura (nectarium L.) hooded, calcarate. Jin- 



