ENNEANDRIA. TRIGYKIA. £61 



.nentosum produces an erect and dicholonious stem, and 

 verticillated leaves.) 



Species. 1. JE. ?omen?&5ww7. Called wild Rhubarb. 2.fa' 

 viwi. Fras. Catal. 1813. E. striceum. Ph. 1. p. 277- 

 3. paivijlorum. {E. pajiciforam. Ph. 2. p. 735.) A.parvi- 

 folium. Calix naked; leaves petiolate, alternate, ovate, re- 

 volute; stem suilruticose — Rees Encyc!. under Eriogo- 

 .'iiim, with the following. Hab. Collected on the N. "A est 

 coast of America, by A. Menzies, Esq. Involucram very 

 many flowered, proliferous; peduncles smooth, o. latifoU' 

 um. Calix naked; leaves peiiolaied alternate, cordate, 

 undulated, petiole amplexicaule; stem suffruticose. Hab. 

 North West coast of America — Menzies. Obs. Leaves 

 2 inches long, tomentose beneath, often aggregated to- 

 wards the summit of the divisions of the caudex. 



A North American genus, allied to Jiheumf and also to 

 tlie Plegorhiza adstriyigeiis of Molini. 



376. PLEEA. Mkkaux, 



Calix none. Corolla 6-parted, stellately 

 spreading; segments linear, acute. Capsule 

 roundish, with 3 angles, S-celled, dissepiment 

 obsolete. Seeds numerous, minute, subterete 

 and caudate, attached to the margins of the 

 valves. 



Roots cespitose, fibrous; leaves irldeous, compressed 

 and attenuated, sempervirent, very narrow, furnished 

 with distinct sheathes and diuichally imbricated. Scape 

 sheathed, nearly naked; fiowers few, racemose, pedun- 

 cles solitary, separately sheathed, about the middle bl- 

 bracteate. Stamina 9 to 12. 



Species. 1. P. f(f?r?/it/b/ia. Rare. Abundant in a single lo- 

 cality, a few miles south of Wilmington, N. Carolina, near 

 the entrance of an extensive and open swamp. Obs. Fi- 

 bres of the root nearly scarlet, sheathing base of the 

 leaves of a fine pink red, leaves deep green, tenaceous and 

 arid; racemes 6 to 9 flowered; flowers nearly saflTron yel- 

 low, persistent. This plant is very closely allied to the 

 section oi'Tofeldia, which I have called Triantha^ but dif- 

 iers much in the form of the flower as well as in the habit 

 and number of stamina. 



