86 Trientdlis Americana. 



stem, are long, lanceolate, acuminate, semimembranaceous, and of the 

 same colour on either disk. Peduncles terminal, filiform, two, three, or 

 five in number, generaUy two, an inch and a half long, supporting each a 

 rotate, white flower of five acute, flat petals, and generally seven or 

 eight stamens. I have carefully compared the American with the 

 foreign plant, and believe the former entirely distinct from the latter. 

 Grows in cedar swamps, and other sphagnous places on high moun- 

 tains throughout the United States. Flowering in July and August. 



The table represents the plant, of its natural size. 



