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inner perianth with two t aW « * . 8. Ovaty. % . 9. Capsule.
Yt- - H Capsule vertically dissected to show the point o f msertion of the seeds. Fig. 12. Seed. a. The embiyo,
g f is! Seedvertkally dissected to show the albumen and embryo. Fig. 4 4 . Han-like processes.# the IV
r-ianth.
A nlant of more rare occurrence than the one here figured we can hardly present to our readers; not One whose
wtien nelQ , . , . I „oil,,lor Kilt- of which the cells are more elongated ; and of the terminal head of
fl?wersPw ith S r e le jn 't , exserLd, purple anthers and curiods scales, die innermost of which with their florets
‘1 ’ d with wtrite L - j ik e p r o v e s , giving to the whole head of Sowers a singularly hoary appearance.
end nart of the scape alone rising above the surface of the water. It has no yP
“ kesP" d d ite ta LmCummmara, on the west coast of Ireland, by J. T. Mackay, Esq. and no where bes.de,
l b “ two S “h>,in any part of the world. Lightfoot saw.its white fibrous roots thrown on the edge of the led,
BIi £ hto£ £ 'tdm e n s of this plant to Linntens, who pronounced it to be the S H H | 9H9
fie s ta his Flora B o L fis Americana; by Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland, whofoiftu^ snt tie Sort
America - and bv Brown, who met with no less than eleven nondescript species in New Holland. and indeed, unit
America and by d o , otherwise than by their able descriptions, I cannot myself hope to hareclesr,
defined die Character o f die present one; though I l i s t that the descripdon and the analysis ot the parts will a *
UPm “ ™“ L a n was arranged
genus R a tio and some other genera also exotics, the family-“J j , 1 , .duel
being inferior, the seed is pendent. from Eriocaulon in having hermaphrodite florets;
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observations upon it in his Prodromus Flores Nova Hollandia.