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CLASS VI.— HEXANDRIA. 
ORDER I. MONOGYNIA. 
1ST. TRADESCANTIA, Gen. pi. 543. 
Calix 3-leaved. Petals 3. Filaments vil- 
lous. Capsule 3-celled, few- seeded. 
viiginica, 1. T. erect, leaves lanceolate, long, smooth ; flow- 
ers sessile, umbels crowded, pubescent — Willd. 
Icon. Bot. Mag. 105. 
Virginian Spider -rvort, 
A superb plant with ultramarlne-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. FI. Bor. 1. p. 204. {Berbendes.) 
Calix 3 to 6-leaved, leaves small, unequal, 
and caducous. Petals 6, unguiculate, op- 
posite the calix. LepantMa 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. 
thaUctroides. 1. C. Very glabrous ^ leaves supra-decompound, 
folioles oval, lower ones petiolate and lobed, the 
terminal one three-lobed. — Mich, 
Leontice thalictroides, Willd. 
Icon. Mich. FI. Boreal. Am. t. 21, 
