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TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



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JE. foliis elliptico-acuminatis membrana- 

 ceis, paniculk terminalibus, calycibus 

 pubcscentibus. Willd, Sp, Pi, 1. p. 



616. 



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Spirit-weed. Hughes. 156. 

 Tall iEgiphila. Sweet. 



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Lygistum flexile fruticosum. Br. 142 





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meat in apparent opposition to Willdenow (1. p. GIG), who de- 

 scribes the inflorescence—'' Paniculsc axillares terminalesque fo- 

 liosic compositiie strictgo. Flores aibi/* The flowers, when full 

 blown, are indeed white, but the panicle of half-blown flowers 

 is greenish yellow. This plant commonly g:oes by the name 

 Spirit Weed, as does also the ^Eg-iphila elata, the general ap- 

 pearance of which is very similar. * 



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* The reference in Browne to t. 3./. 3. for a representation of 

 his Knoxia scandens. No. % p. 140. is unquestionably wrong; 

 and should have been to U 3. /. 2. The Lygistum flexile fruti- 

 cosum is very evidently represented in t> 3. f, 3. and not in t, 3, 

 /. 2. as erroneously stated. Of this there can be no doubt, after 

 comparing the very full description of the parts of fructilication 

 of Lygistum flexile fruticosum with the representations in t. 3. 

 This unfortunate error, perhaps only of the engraver, has been 

 productive of much confusion. 



" Knoxia scandens foliis cordato-ovatis," as a sjnonym to ^gi- 

 phila elata " foliis elliptico-acuminatis;" and he has also fallen 

 into error under the head Manettia Lygistum, which he identifies 

 with Lygistum flexile fruticosum. Now,of the Manettia Lygis- 

 tum, Willdenow, after Swartz, states " Pedunculi axillares sao- 

 pius gcmini uniHori. Calyx octophylus" and the character of 



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