86 Trientalis Americana.
stem, are long, lanceolate, acuminate, semimembranaceous, and of the
same colour on either disk. Peduncles terminal, filiform, two, three, or
five in number, generally two, an inch and a half long, supporting each a
rotate, white flower of five acute, flat petals, and generally seven or
eight stamens. 1 have carefully compared the American .with the
foreign plant, and believe the former entirely distinct from the latter.
Grows in cedar swamps, and other sphagnous places on high mountains
throughout the United States. Flowering in July and August.
The table represents the plant, of its natural size.
