72 15EUBEU1DACE.E. Dip/u/Ilcki. 



leaflets : flower white ; fruit obovate or rather uru-shaped, thick-walled aud at maturity 

 coriaceous, transversely dehiscent about two tiiirds way rouud above the middle, the persist- 

 cut top forming a lid. — J. dipltylla, Pers. Syn. i. 418; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1513; Lodd. Bot. 

 Cab. t. 10.36; Gray, I.e. 86, t. 34. ./. Bartonis, Michx. Fl. i. 237; Kaf. Med. Fl. ii. II, f. 5.5, 

 with J. odorula & J. lubitta, tiie latter (also Nutt. Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 99) with outer 

 margin of leaflets siuuate-Iobed. /'odo//liijlliun diphi/llum, L. ii]>(iv. i. 505. — Kich and moist 

 soil in woodi?, X. New Yoric to Illinois ^ and adjacent Canada, south to Virginia and Ten- 

 nessee, mainly along the mountains; fl. early spring. Also called Kheumatisji-uoot. 



6. DIPHYLLEIA, Michx. (At's, double, and <l>vWov, leaf.) — Fl. i. 203, 

 t. 19, 20; Gray, Geu. 111. i. 83, t. 33. — Single species; for the B. Gnuji, F. 

 Schmidt, of Suchalin aud Japan, seems to be no more than a variety, with some 

 pubescence on the leaves. 



D. cymosa, Micnx. l. c. Eootstock horizontal aud with large contiguous scars on upper 

 side left by annual growths: stout flowering stem a foot or two high, above bearing two 

 alternate approximate petiolate leaves aud terminated by a small corymbiform cyme of 

 white flowers : leaves thin, very veiny, accrescent, at first 5 or 6 inches, at length a foot or 

 two wide, with acutely denticulate margins ; cauline with shallow basal and deep central 

 sinus, very excentrically peltate ; large radical ceutrally peltate and more equally 9-13-lobed : 

 berries as big as peas, blue or black-purple with a bloom. — Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1666; Pursh, 

 Fl. i. 218; DC. Syst. ii. 30; Gray, 1. c. 84, t. 33, & Am. Jour. Sci. xlii. 23.-— Springy 

 ground in woods, higher mouutains of Virginia, Carolina, and E. Tennessee; fl. sj)ring. 

 (N. E. Asia.) 



7. PODOPH"^LLUM, L. May-apple, Mandrake. {Uov^, foot, and 

 (f>v\Xov, leaf, probably in reference to the very large footstock of the radical 

 leaves.) — Eobust perennial herbs (Atlantic N. Amer. and Asiatic, in 3 or 4 

 species), with strong running rootstocks, sending up in spring single centrally 

 peltate leaves from an undeveloped stem, also mostly 2-leaved one-flowered stems 

 with their leaves very eccentrically peltate : flower large, mostly white : woody 

 bundles in stem scattered. — Syst. Nat. ed. 1, & Gen. no. 426; Gray, Gen. 111. 

 i. 87, t. 35, 36. Anapodophyllum, Tourn. Inst. 239, t. 122. 



P. peltatum, L. Kadical leaf of sterile shoots with petiole a foot or more high, about 

 tMjually 7-9-parted into ol)long-cuneate and emarginate divisions; leaves of flowering stem a 

 pair at summit, with a short-peduucled flower between them: stamens 12 to 18: pulpy 

 fruit ovoid, nearly 2 inches long : sometimes flowering stem leafless, a naked scajie ; some- 

 times 3 alternate leaves or 2 uuequal ones, the smaller 2-3-lobed, sometimes 2 or 3 addi- 

 tional carpels ! — Spec. i. 505 ; Michx. Fl. i. 309 ; Lam. 111. t. 449 ; Bigel. Med. Bot. ii. .54, 

 t. 23; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1819; Gray, 1. c. 88, t. 35, 36; Porter, Bot. Gaz. ii. 117, with 

 figures of variaticma.'^ P. mnntanum & P. cnJJicarjmtii, Raf. Med. Fl. ii. 59, 60. Aiutpodo- 

 phi/llttm ]>elt(itiiiii, Ma'uch, Meth. 277. — Low and alluvial ground, borders of Canada to 

 Minnesota, Missouri, E. Texas, and Florida. (Japan ?) 



Order VI. NYMPHiEACE^. 



By a. Guav ; tliC genus IViiphar by B. L. Robin'son. 



Aquatic perennial herbs ; with naked and one-flowered scapes or peduncles, 

 commonly peltate leaves which are involute in the bud ; hermaphrodite flowers, 

 with the floral envelopes commonly in threes or fours, or indefinitely numerous, 



1 Wisconsin, Lapham. 2 Add Lloyd Bros. Am. Drugs & Med. ii. 120, 121. 



3 Also Foerstc, Bull. Terr. Club, xi. 02. 



