PARNAS'SIA ASARIFO'LIA. 
ASARUM-LEAVED PARNASSIA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. TETRAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
DROSERACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America 
6 inches. 
July, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1812. 
No. 724. 
This genus received its name from Mount Par- 
nassus. See No. 550. 
We liave previously published two species of this 
remarkably attractive genus, and now have the 
pleasure of introducing a third — a larger than either 
of the ])receding. These are plants which engage 
the affections without the more specious attraction 
of colours ; which may be accounted for by the 
singularity of their parts of fructification. It is, 
says Dr. Lindley, in his Lady’s Botany, ‘^One of 
the most curious of all wild plants, the companion 
of Sun-dew in her marshy haunts, and quite her ri- 
val in beauty and singularity of structure. The 
remarkable glands of Drosera, are confined to her 
irritable leaves, and disappear in her flowers. In 
Parnassia, on the contrary, the leaves and stems 
are hairless, but there is a most extraordinary gland- 
ular apparatus in the flowers. The leaves of this 
plant are heart-shaped, and cluster round the base 
of the stem. The latter rises to the height of a 
few inches, bearing below its middle a solitary stalk- 
less leaf, similar in form to those of the base, and 
on its point a single nodding white flower, whose 
