CEKT. IV. 50 



very slender and crowded, flowers very small 

 but similar, seed minute .obovai compr, black, 

 edges white, crowq of 4 or 5 scariose scales 

 ovate a rotate. 



396, He/. Adentatum fja.m Louisiana, the 

 real kind sent me by Riddell with lower leaves 

 pinnatifid, disk ovate, 



397, BILAMISTA grandiflora Raf. n. fl. #76 

 Louisiana, Arkanzas r and Texas, beautiful plant 

 very near the }^isiantlius russdianus of Hook- 

 er, if not the same ; but his figure and descrip- 

 tion do not agree, and do not express the char- 

 acter of the N. G. nor the fine opposition Of sta- 

 mens as in all G'entianides. t 



398, SABBATIA nervosa or Neurolfr.cirkan- 

 zica Raf, n. fl. 975 fine subg. perhaps a Ge- 

 nus, Arkanzas. 



399, PLEIEXTA Snervia Raf. n, fl. 973 Lou- 

 isiana. 



400, fyleifaiMtha R. n. fl. 974. SaUatia 

 gracilis uonnulis non omnes maritimis Nova- 

 ces. ad Florida. 



This Century includes 17 New Gen. whereof 

 8 now first described, with 24 new species. 



CENTURIA V. 



EKDOGhNOUS OR MONOCOTYLES. 



REGGERIA Raf. (hot) perig. 6-8part. 

 persistens, sepalis 3nervisobl. obt. alt. angustior, 

 sepe omnis ineq. stam. G-8filam. ineq. filif. anth. 

 subrot. ovar. apice 31obo, stylo tngono clavato, 

 stigm. obt. Slobo, Bulbosa, 'scapis I-Sfiofis 

 bracteis foliosis Genus mediate between Ga- 

 gea andv Skilla, singular b/often 7 or 8 stamens. 

 REGGERIA bohemiea (vrL rupestris) Raf. 

 Ornithogalum do W. Bohemia on rocks,quite 

 peculiar habit, radical leaves filiform, stem or 



