12 
Canadensis, 
racemosae 
POLYANDRIA, DI-PENTAGYNIA. 
N. alba, Mich. and Walt. 
Castalia pudica, Salisbury. 
Foon. Bot. Mag. 819. Bot. Repos. 297 ? 
Fragrant water Lily. 
A very beautiful aquatic plant, with white flowers, which 
exhale a delicious fragrance. Leaves and flowers floating on 
the surface of the water. In a ditch on the road to Gloucester 
point, and in ditchesin Jersey; rare. Perennial. July. 
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ORDER If. DI-PENTAGYNIA. (2 fo 5 styles.) 
247. AQUILEGIA. Gen. pl. 934. (Ranunculacee.) 
Calix none. Petals 5. Lepanthia 5, corni- 
culate, situated between the petals. Cap- 
sules 5, distinct.—WVutt. 
1. A. horns straight, stamens exserted.— Willd. 
Icon. Bot. Mag. 246. 
American Columbine. 
This is one of the most elegant plants of America, far ex- 
ceeding in beauty the common foreign columbine, so gene- 
rally cultivated in gardens. From one to two feet high. Flow- 
ers scarlet and crimson, mixed with yellow. On the high rocks 
of the Schuylkill and Wissahickon, every where common; 
grows frequently in crevices, where the roots seem to have no 
earth for their nourishment. Perennial. April, May. 
248. CIMICIFUGA. Gen. pl. 193. (Ranunculacee.) 
Calix 4 or 5-leaved. Petals 4 to 8 deformed, 
thickish, sometimes wanting. Capsules 4 
to 5, oblong, many-seeded. Seeds squa- 
mose.—WV‘utt. 
1. C. leaves decompound, folioles ovate-oblong, 
incised, dentate; teeth mucronate, divaricate ; 


