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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



YII. FLOEEKEA SERIES. 



The only species for a long time known as the genus Floerkea^ has 

 flowers in three or more rarely four parts; it is better to study 

 another whose flowers are pentamerous, or exceptionaUy tetramerous, 



T'lo^Tcea {JJimnanthes) Bouglasii. 



Fig. 50. Floriferous branch. 



which is often cultivated in gardens under the name of lAmnanthes ^ 

 Douglasii^ (fig 50-54). The floral receptacle is surbased and bears 

 a calyx of five valvate sepals and a regular corolla of five alternate 



1 F. proserpinoides W. in Neue Schr. Ges. 

 Nat. Fr. Berl. iii. 448.— Torr. et Gray Fl. N. 

 Amer. i. 210. — E. Br. in Land, and JBdini. Phil. 

 Mag. (1833), ii. 70.— Lindl. in Soolc. Journ. of 

 Sot. ; i. t. 1 (ifoMC.).— Endl. Gen. n. 6065. — A. 

 Gray, G-en. III. t. 154; Mm. ed. 6, 108.— B. H. 

 Q-en. 275, n. 9. — H. Bn. in Adansonia x. 362. — 

 Waip. Rep. i. 467. — F. tiUgimsa Muelh. Cat. 



36. — F. lacustris Peks. Enchirid. i. 393. — F. pa- 

 lustrii NuTT. Sen. i. 228. — Kectris pinnata 

 Phrsh, Fl. Bor.-Amer.i. 239. 



^ E. Br. in Lond. and Fdinb. Phil. Mag. he. 

 eit. (1833).— Endl. Gen. n. 6066.— Payer, 

 Organog. 51, t. 10.— B. H. O-en. 374, n. 8. 



' E. Br. loe. crt.— Lindl. in Bot. Meg. t. 1673. 

 —Bot. Mag. t. 3564. 



