Seed-vessel. An egg-shaped, flattened berry, growing to the cup.
Seed. A four-celled nut, shell very hard; kernels oblong.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Pogonia foliis lanceolatis, apicibus sæpe serrulatis, distichis; floribus solitariis, axillaribus, cæruleis; cortice scabrosa.
Pogonia with lance-shaped leaves, often slightly sawed at the ends, and pointing opposite ways; flowers solitary, growing from the insertion of the leaves into the stem, and blue; bark rough.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement.
2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives as they stand in the blossom.
3. A Chive, magnified.
4. The Pointal.