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looking for it, but where experience had led me to expect that 
any or every peculiar Atlantic States type gy oa recur, namely in 
Japan. That is, I identified the genus with the Schizocodon uni- 
aa of Maximowicz, which, singularly enough, W was known _ 
by apemens in the same oe i. e. with ca alyx and gyne 
Bt a Ecce restoration of the missing organs; and I ven- 
tured the opinion that Shortia (of 1842) and Schizocodon beets 
whether of one genus or two, were most related to pensia. 
ibe, 
the genera Gal, oats Shortia, and adopted the idea of a sa 
identity of PA aE with the latter. The next year Maxi- 
mowicz decided that the two genera should be distinct, founding 
this conclusion upon the sone: seed-coat (confirmed in "the apa- 
nese Shortia uniflora) and the campanulate sain with lobes 
m. 
r I now received, at first indirectly from Mr. a a 
Congilon, and at length directly ree Mr. M. E. Hyams, of States- 
ville, Carolina, a floweri ecimen of the long-sought 
. imen o 
Shortia giacifolia Mr. Heya or more strictly his son, George 
i Quee ar bea collected it on a hill-side in McDowell County, 
unless other species afford transitions; and that the squam 
are like those of igetanasions and fully as large, but broader, nar- 
rowed or almost unguiculate at base, and attached to the very 
base of the corolla, while er filaments (said by Maximowicz to 
be “libera,” p robably in the sense of free from the corolla, as 
they are represented in the oo fee are adnate to the 
corolla for most of their length. is, the phrase “ filamentis 
