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PACHYSANDRA procumbens. 
. Trailing Pachysandra. 
MONGCIA TETRANDRIA. 
PACHYSANDRA, Masculi. Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 0.. Foeminei. 
Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 6. Styli 3. Caps. 3-cornis 3-loc. Sem. 2. 
Willd. sp. pl. 4. 339. ; 
P. procumbens. Michaux. bor. amer. 2. 178. Willd. ubi supra. Pursh. 
amer. sept. 1.117. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 260. ; 
Herba perennis, sempervirens?, rhizomate horizontali undique a stolonibus 
prorepente. Caulis simplex, decumbenti-assurgens, infra pedem longus, tenaxr, 
teres, rubro-fuscescens, vix equans crassitudinem penne scriptoria, flexuosus, 
sulcatus, tomentosus, superné subcomoso-foliosus, inferné spiciger nudus . 
squamis nonnullis vagis stipatus. Folia petiolata, plurima, sparsa, approxi- 
mata, erectiuscula, ovalia, sepé apicem versiis utrinque grossius paucidentata, 
in nervis villosa: petioli subunciales. Spice androgyne in pedunculo 1-3- 
unciali cauli subsimili squama bracteaced ad basin appressd, vage, nude, 
erect, summe modo in imis folits axillares, superné multifloro-mascule, in- 
Serne bifloro-feeminee ; laxiis sparse. Flores subsemunciales, sessiles, erecti, 
virides, lineis interruptis densissimis sanguineis cinnamomeo-rubentes : MASCU- 
Lus bractea zpsz subsimili exceptus : cal. turbinato-campanulatus ; foliola ovato- 
acuminata, ciliolata, lateralia bina opposita exteriora, reliqgua duo includentia : 
fil. crassa hujus axt carnos@ inserta, subtriplo longiora, subclavato-teretia, 
compressa, rugosula, erecto-divergentia, alba: anth. parvule cinnamomee, 
erecta, ovato-oblonge, basi sagittata, biloculares, summo filamento breviter 2 
dorso introrsum adnate, loculis intis profundeé distinctis, extis rachi prominente 
connexis. Foemineus masculo profecto similis, sed aliquantuliim minor, & 
_ bracteis pluribus (3?) squamiformibus (und exteriore ) imbricatus : pist. floris 
concolor ;° germ. tricocco-subrotundum, cocculis singulis dispermis in stylos sibt 
equicrassos semiteretes breves intiis sulcatos continuatis; stigmata 3, ex- 
serta, replicata, pro flore magna, lingulata, acuta, extis convera, epee 
intis plana, explicata, glabra stria@ media prominuld, margine ciliolata. 
(Caps. 3-cocca, 3-cornis, 3-loc.: sem. in singulis loculis bina, oblonga, summo 
locuto appensa, levigata ). 
Native of rocky parts inthe Alleghany mountains, where 
it grows in shady situations. First found by Michaux. An 
herbaceous perennial evergreen plant of humble growth; 
seldom, we believe, exceeding the dimensions of the sub- 
ject of the present figure, but spreading itself in every 
direction by suckers from a somewhat creeping rootstock. 
Of little value in the flower-garden but as a botanical curi- 
osity. At present the only known species of the genus ; 
which has been, we understand, decided to belong to Jus- 
sieu’s natural order of Euphorbiz, The contrast of the tall 
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