174 HEX tNDRIA, TRll.VM \. 



EL BiythrosperoMj Mich* 



M. Leta, Ait. 



Mclaiithiiim l;etum, \\ illd. 



M. Muscjetoxicum, ^ alt. 



M. phalangioides, Lamark. 



knthericum subtrigy nura» Jacq. i< . car. \ t. 119, 



(I'uish.) 



Channelliil-U'dvt'd ffcUniins. 



A vcn handsome plant, with white flowers. In :i swampy 

 thicket west of M'Mahon'a garden ; rare. Perennial June, 

 JuK. 



I7a x HEDCHZBRIA. Gen. pi 615. (Jmiri.) 



Calix 6-parted. Corolla none. Anthers li- 

 near. Stigmas sessile, lateral, ('upsides 

 inflated, distinct, mostly 2->ecdrd. Seeds 

 smooth. ( \ lindrir-ovate, x\ i t li a longitudi- 

 nal tarinate suture, (l)laek.) — A'utt. 



pki'mni. l. S. leaves of the infertile Bboots near is inches 

 long, u'n narrow and linear. Roots loaded 

 With persistent vestigia); raceme 5 to 7-llower- 

 cd, lowest peduncles longest and subtended by 

 sheathing leases, which diminish upwards into 

 short bractes. Capsules S, oval, inflated, with 

 oompressed margins. Seeds almost uniformly I 

 in each capsule, as large as those of garden bal- 

 sam (Impatittu MnensisJ black and shining* 

 integument coriaceous; episperm white and 

 membranaceous. Nucleus greenish, consisting 

 of an ovate Cylindric and homogenous somar* 

 hizc, marked at its interior extremity for < <>n- 

 tiguous t(» the umbilicus) with an almost imper- 

 ceptibly minute gemmule, in the form of a dia- 

 phanous point. — A'uff. 



About eight or ten inchet Ihk' 1 * a4th large bundled d 

 leavei at the rooti Leavea variegated, lionaUy, like tor* 



toisc-sii 11. in Cranberry twampa, Jeney, nut far from Ore 

 t itv. Bare. 



