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was sent, containing other rarities, from the neighbourhood of 
Montreal, by Mr Macieay. Its first appearance above ground 
was more like that of some thick’white and fleshy Clavaria, 
than of any phenogamous plant ; and the whole substance re- 
sembled of white wax. 
It appears to inhabit a atl extent of country in North 
America, having been found in Canada, in Carolina and Geor-— 
gia, and I believe in many intermediate districts. 
Mr Nurrauy has separated from the genus Monotropa 
the MZ. Hypopithys, under the name of Hypopithys europea, 
principally i in consequence of a slight difference in the filaments 
and anthers; but the general habit of the plant, and every es- 
sential particular, are so similar in the two individuals, that I 
can by no means assent to this change. Like our Kuropean 
species, the present plant turns black in drying, but it is desti- 
tute of that agreeable primrose-like fragrance which is so re- 
markable both in the living and recently dried state of M. Hy- 
popithys. 
Fig. 1. Flower deprived of its scales, nat. size. Fig. 2. Leaflet of the pe- 
rianth. Fig. 3. Back view of astamen. Fig. 4. Front view of an an- 
ther. Fig. 5. Transverse section of an anther. Fig. 6. Pollen. Fig. 7.— 
Stamens and pistil. Fig. 8. Pistil. Fig. 9. Section of the Germen.— 
All but Fig. 1. more or less magnified. 
