UVULARIA PUBERULA. 
DOWNY UVULARIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
MELANTHACE.E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
9 inches. 
May, June. 
Perennial . 
in 1824. 
No. 512. 
The name, Uvularia, was used by old authors to 
distinguish a plant, which they used in curing dis- 
eases of the uvula. See No. 187. Puberula, from 
the Latin, downy. 
This is a rare and delicate species of Uvularia, 
made known by Michaux, the French botanist; who 
found it located, as the Americans themselves would 
say, on the loftiest mountains of Carolina. It ap- 
pears to have escaped the notice of most English 
cultivators, or otherwise has been confounded with 
sessilifolia. It, certainly, approaches very nearly 
in character to that species, but its leaves are not 
glaucous beneath, as in sessilifolia; they are, too, 
strictly ovate; and also larger than those of its con- 
gener. Its corolla, also, is more decidedly bell- 
shaped. 
As the flowering season of the several species of 
Uvularia precedes that of more general gaiety in the 
garden, these plants are a desirable appendage to 
the early parterre. They follow the first glow of 
spring beauties, — beauties which leave us somewhat 
deficient in the number of immediate successors ; 
but still in the enjoyment of a season full of fresh- 
Class. 
HEXANDRIA. 
