236 HEXANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. 



persistent, spreading-, ^^iithevs compressed. Steels very 

 nunnerous, terete, caudate. (Near!}- allied to J\'artkechim.) 



Roots hoiizonlal, ag-gregate; leaves ensiform j^ramine- 

 oi!s, arid; scapes naked, often pubescent and scabrous, 

 spike lobed, flowers mostly ap^g-reg-aled by 3s. 



2. piisilln. 3. pnbescens. v. v. in Sussex corinty, Dela- 

 vare. Obs. I'etals .^-reenish-white, linear-obovate, obtuse; 

 scape scabious and pulverulently pubescent; flowers aj^- 

 grepi^ated in 3s, subtended by as many minute bractc-s; 

 anthers rotmdish-cordate, flat, grayish-purple; capsule 

 brown and indurated, margin of the valves inflected, se- 

 miniferous above, summit-; bifid. Seed caudate. 4. ^luii- 

 nosa. V. V. Abundant ai'ound Detroit, Michigan territory. 

 Nearly allied to the preceding; but the petals are oblong- 

 oval. 



Of the genus Tofelma, besides the above, there is 1 

 species in Europe and another in the Andes of Peru. — Tiie 

 section here denominated 'I liantha is unquestionably a 

 genus distinct from the European T-fehUa, as well as from 

 the plant of Carolina, T. glabra; it approaches to JWirthe- 

 ciitm by the seed, but the flowers are caliculate, and the 

 filaments of the stamina smooth. 



349. SCHELCHZERIA. L. 



Callx 6-partct]. Corolla none. Anthers linop.r. 

 Sf}g<nas sessile, lateral. Capsules inflated, dis- 

 tinct, mostly 2-seeded. Seeds sniootii, cylindric- 

 ovate. with a longitudinal carinate suture, 

 (black.) 



A plant indigenous to sphagnose morasses, with some- 

 wlvit horizontal roots, or a lateral mode of growtli; leaves 

 distichally sheathing, tlmse of the infertile shoots v^ry 

 long and attenuated, convex and carinate; on feitlle stems, 

 short; sheaths distinct; lowering stem flexuose, fi-cnciose, 

 - numerously jointed; ])eduncles distant, solitary, sheathed; 

 ilowers greenish and inconspicuous. 



Species. 1. S. pahistris. v. v. In sphagnose cranberny 

 swamps, New Jersey, near Pliiladelphia, plentiful, but I 

 have not seen it in any other part of America. Obs. Leaves 

 of the infertile shoots near 18 inches long, very narrow 

 and linear. Hoots loaded with persistent vestigia;; raceme 

 5 to 7-fiowered, lowest peduncles longest and subtended 

 by sheathmg leaves, which diminish upwards into short 

 bractes. Capsules 3, oval, inflated, with compressed mar- 

 gins. Seeds almost uniformh 2 in each capsule, as large 

 Sib those of Garden Balsam {Impatiens chinensia) black and 



