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CLASS VL— HEXANDRIA. 



ORDER I. MONOGYNIA. 



157. TRADESCANTIA. Gen. pi. 543. (Junci.) 



Calix 3-leaved. Petals 3. Filaments vil- 

 lous. Capsule 3- celled, few- seeded. 



virginica, i. T. erect, leaves lanceolate, long, smooth ; flow- 

 ers sessile, umbels crowded, pubescent — Willd. 

 Icon. Bot. Mag. 105. 



Virginian Spider-wort. 



A superb plant with ultramarine-blue flowers and orange 

 coloured anthers. Worthy of cultivation in all our gardens. 

 In many it has already obtained a footing. On the sandy shores 

 of the Delaware, Jersey side, near a thicket about four miles 

 below Philadelphia. Perennial. May, June. 



158. CAULOPHYLLUM. Mich. Fl.Bor. l.p.204. (Berberides.) 



Calix 3 to 6 -leaved, leaves small, unequal, 

 and caducous. Petals 6, unguiculate, op- 

 posite the calix. Lepanthia 6, seated upon 

 the claws of the petals, carneous, subreni- 

 form, margin glutinous. Anthers growing 

 to the filaments, cells opening by so many 

 vertical elastic valves. Drupe stipitate, by 

 abortion 1 -seeded. — JSTutt. 



thaiictroides. 1. C. very glabrous 5 leaves supra-decompound, 

 folioles oval, lower ones petiolate and lobed, the 

 terminal one three-lobed. — Mich. 

 Leontice thaiictroides, Willd. 

 Icon. Mich. Fl. Boreal. Am. t. 21. 



