HEXANDRIA. MGNOGYNIA. Galanthus. 417 
TRIG 7 LOCHIN. Calyx three-leaved : Bloss. three petals, con¬ 
cave : Caps, opening at the base, (three-valved. E.) 
RU'MEX. ( Calyx three-leaved: Bloss, three petals: Seed 
one, triangular. £.) 
(SCHEtJCHZE'RIA. Calyx none: Bloss, six petals: Caps, 
three inflated : Seeds solitary. E.) 
TOFIEX/DIA. ( Perianth single, six-partite, petaloid, with a 
small tripartite involucre: Caps, three to six-celled, cells 
united at the base, many-seeded. Hook. E.) 
[Anthericum calyculatum. Drosera rotundifolia, & longifolia. 
Polygonum viviparum. Quercus.] 
HEXAGYNIA. 
ARISTOLOCHIA. Calyx none: Bloss. one petal, tongue¬ 
shaped, entire, (inflated at the base : E.) Caps, six- 
celled, beneath. 
[Alisma Damasonium.] 
POLYGYNIA. 
ALIS'MA. Cal. three-leaves: Bloss. three petals: (Caps. 
several, clustered, distinct, rarely more than single- 
seeded. E.) 
QTriglochin maritimum.] 
MONOGYNIA. 
GALAN'THUS.* Petals three, concave: Nectary three 
smaller petals notched at the end : Summit undivided. 
G. niva'lis. 
Dicks. II. S. — (Hook. FI. Lond. E.)— Jacq. Austr. 313— E. Bot. 19— 
Kniph. 1— Wale. — Clus. i. 169. 1— Dod. 230. 1— Lob. Obs. 64. 3— Ger. 
Em. 147— Park. Par. 107, Jig. between 6, 7, and 9— Ger. 120. 1— Matth. 
1245. 
Only one pair of leaves, blunt, keeled, glaucous, sheathed at the base. 
Stalk cylindrical, naked, bearing one flower. Sheath cylindrical, often 
(From yaXa, milk, and avSo;, a flower ; descriptive of its milky whiteness. E.) 
