P0LYA3NDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
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surfaces, with the point short and hooked, smaller and less distinctly thick- 
ened along the margins, than those of the R. muricatus. The calyx and 
corolla I have not seen. 
Collected in St. John’s Berkley, by Dr. Macbride. 
Flowers April and May. 
CALTHA. 
Calyx 0. Petala 
5 — 9. Capsules plu- 
rimse, compressae, 1- 
loculares, polysper- 
mae. 
1. Ficarioides. 
C. caule erecto un- 
ifloro, unifolio ; foliis 
radicalibus cordato-o- 
vatis, obtusissimis, 
paucidentatis, multi- 
nervibus ; petalis el- 
lipticis. 
Gen. Pl. 959. 
Calyx 0. Petals 
5 — 9. Capsules nu- 
merous, compressed, 
1-celled, many seed- 
ed. 
Stem erect, 1-flow- 
ered, and with 1-leaf ; 
root leaves cordate-o- 
vate, very obtuse, spa- 
ringly toothed, many 
nerved; petals elliptic. 
Fursh, 1. p. 389. De Candolle. 
Ranunculus ficaria. Walt 159. 
Hoot perennial. Stem herbaceous. Flowers yellow. 
This plant with which I am unacquainted, I have inserted from Pursh. 
Grows in Cedar swamps. Pursh. 
Flowers June — -July. 
BRASENIA. 
Calyx 6-phyllus 
persistens. Corolla 0. 
Capsules 6 — 12 ob- 
longae, dispermee. ' 
Gen. Pl. 938. 
Calyx 6-leaved, 
persistent. CorollaO. 
Capsules 6 — 12 ob- 
long, 2-seeded. 
1. Peltata. 
Pursh 2. p. 389. Nut. 2. p. 24. 
Hydropeltis purpurea. IVlich, 1. p. 324. T. 29 * 
