TRADESCANTIA VIRGINICA. 



VIRGINIAN SPIDER-WORT. 



Hexandria Monogynia, Linn. Junci, Juss. Commdinex, R. Brown. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix 3-leaved. Petals 3. Filaments villous. Capsule 3-celled, few-seeded, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Erect ; leaves lanceolate, long, smooth ; flowers pedunculated ; umbels crowded, 

 pubescent. Willd. 



SYNONYM. 



Phalangium ephemerum Virginianum, Park. Paradisus. 152. 



Root large, fasiculated, consisting of thick succulent fibres, pe- 

 rennial. Stem somewhat cylindrical, smooth, striated, often geni- 

 culate, particularly in luxuriant specimens, grass-green, with red- 

 dish stripes at the base of the leaves. Leaves lanceolate, from 



