116 NEW GENERA OF PLANTS. [October. 



lent and somewhat fragile, erect, subcylindric- filiform, a 

 little compressed and obtuse towards the point, mem- 

 branaceousiy sheathing and radicant at the base, radical 

 fibres white, compressed, and flaccid. Scapes or peduncles 

 shorter than the leaves, one-flowered, radical, axillary, 

 terete, at first erect, in fruit deflected. Calyx cylindric- 

 campanulate, border f6ur and five-toothed, dentures acute. 

 Corolla monopetalous, tubular, white, shaded with gray- 

 ish blue outbide, tube yellowish and glandular withm, 

 border spreading four and five-lobed, lobes oblong-oval, 

 or oval, obtuse. Stamina four, approximating by pairs, 

 included in the tube ot the corolla, filaments short; an- 

 thers pale blue, two-celled. Style included, stigma capi- 

 tate. Capsule nearly spherical, smooth, bursting the 

 calyx, bivalve, subbilocular, many-seeded. Seeds nu- 

 merous, angular, somewhat gibbous, attached to a large 

 and rounded receptacle, compressed at its base, and dila- 

 ted on two sides, producing imperfect dissepiments, 

 w hich are continued to the margin of the valves, hence 

 the capsule is bilocular near its base, and only one- celled 

 above. 



Does this plant with a lateral mode of growth and al- 

 ternate leaves, germinate with two cotyledones? 



Habitat, — With the above, also in Connecticut; — Dr. 

 Ives, in a letter to Z. Collins, Esq. with the preceding. 

 Flowermg from July to beptember. 



