Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830. Stephen Elliott papers, 1791- approximately 1947. Plant lists. gra00020. Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Botany Libraries, Harvard University.

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Contains undated lists of plants and trees “which would thrive in the mild climate of Charleston,” South Carolina, including cork trees, fig trees from Italy, and lemon and lime trees from Portugal; lists of genera and species under Linnaean classes of plants including Syngenesia, Dodecandria, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, Triandria, and Octandria; a list of Sarracenia rubra; and a list fragment of other plant names and numbers. There are also descriptions of Tetrandria monogynia and Lyonia, and illustrations of flowers, in an unknown hand.

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329 Tilia 3 ∼ 329 3
330 Helianthemum 5 ∼ 330 5
1 Argemone 1 — 334 1
2 Papaver Sanguinaria 1 — 335 2
3 Podophyllum 1 — 336 5
4 Actaea 1 — 337 16 ∼
5 Sarracenia 5 ✓ — 333
6 Nuphar 2 ∼ — 332
7 Nymphaea 1∼ 331
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2 -- 5
8 Delphinium
9 Aconitum
340 Aquilegia
1 Cimicifuga 4 x
2 Ascyrum
3 Hypericum
4 Elodea
Polyg.
5 Illicium
6 Magnolia
7 Liriodendron
8 Asimina.
9 Clematis 1
350 Anemone 3
1 Thalictrum 2
2 Hydrastis 5
3 Hepatica 4
4 Ranunculus 6
5 Brasenia Caltha 7
6 Cyanus 3
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[loss] — — — 542
Lusitanica — — — 540
Maritima — — — 543
Pumila 541
Serotina — — — 541
Spinosa 543
Virginiana — — — 540
Umbellata — — — 541
Ptelea — — 210
Monophylla — — 211
Trifoliata — — 210
Pulmonaria 228
Virginica — — 228
Pyrola — — 504
Maculata — — 505
Rotundifolia — — 504
Pyrus — — 558
Angustifolia — — 558
Coronaria — — 559
Pyxidanthera
Barbulata — — 229
Spat[loss] — — [loss]
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Tetrandria monogynia

Flowers small cruciform, sessile each furnished with a small acuminate deciduous bractea. Spike crowded from 5 to 10 inches long. A luxuriant plant may bear three spikes. The bloom commences at the bottom of the spike.

Calyx petaloid, deeply 4 divided : divisions equal oval terminating each in a dry black point. The calyx is at first very white but soon becomes greenish even before the shriveling of the pistill & anthers. Calyx remains shrivelled & attached to the mature seed vessel.

Corolla non unless you choose to call the ca=lyx so. —

Stamina invariably 4. Filaments white 5 or 6 times the length of the calyx, clavate, flattened above, minutely filiform at their insertion which is at the bottom of the calyx *nearly* or quite in contact with the style. *Anthers si= =tuated at the top of the filaments (as in Yucca. — see the specimens) Stamina soon drop. *anthera biloeulares

Pistillum. Germen inferior tetragonal. Style not more than 1/3 of the length of the fila =ments. Stigma large, globose. Pistill white, shrivels & falls a little before the stamina!

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Capsule short, 4 angular, spermous. The capsule seems to be a wrinkled tunic without valves or any determinate mode of opening. It adheres to the seed.

Seed eggeshaped small end uppermost.

Caulis 4-5 pedalis, medullosus a "teres atque rotundus" The foliation Mr. Elliott is qualified to describe from the specimen affored last year. The leaves resemble at first view those of the rose.

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