PLATE CCCLII. 
HELONIAS BULLATA 
Spear-leaved Helonias. 
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CLASS VI. Ot DesR: II. 
HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
EMPALEMENT, none 
Caryx nullus. ; 
Bossom. Six petals, oblong, equal, deciduous. 
Corotra. Petala fex, oblonga, zqualia, de- 
Curves, Six threads, awl-fhaped, a little longer 
than the bloffom. Tips lying on the 
threads. 
Pointat. Seed-bud roundifh, three-fided. 
Shafts three, fhort and reflexed. Summits 
Filamenta fex, fubulata, corolla 
paulo longiora. Antherz incumbentes. 
Pistittum. Germen fubrotundum, trigonum. 
Styli tres, breves, reflexi. Stigmata ob- 
tufa. 
Pericarrium. Capfula fubrotunda, trilocula- 
Semina bumerofa, angulata, minima. 
obtufe. 
SzEp-vesseL. Capfule roundith, three-celled. 
Seeps numerous, angulated, very {mall. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
’ Helonias foliis lanceolatis, nervofis; braéteis Helonias with lance-fhaped, nerved leaves ; floral 
cordato-lanceolatis, _ | ] bet d fhaped. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. Flower, complete. 
2. The Chives and Pointal, natural fize. 
3. The fame, magnified. 
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At the fpecies of this genus, yet difcovered, are natives of North America, and are confidered as 
hardy herbaceous plants; the winters of this country not being too fevere for them; although they 
are found as far fouth as Carolina, yet they are more plentiful in Penfylvania, about Philadelphia. 
flourifh moft in a fhady, moift fituation; and increase, freely, by parting the roots in the month 
of March. The flowers are produced in May, the flower-ftem increafing in length, till the flowers 
are entirely decayed. The Helonias bullata has been an inhabitant of our gardens ever fince the yeast 
1758, when it was introduced by Mr. Ph. Miller, and cultivated by him at Chelfea. See Mill. ic. 
181. t.272. 
Our drawing was made at the Nurfery, Hammerfmith, in June 1801. 
