Laboratory, U: Contributions (Classic Reprint) -

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Before Tournefort had named the genus Sorroccna (t) and Linnaeus (2) had accepted the name, the group of the Sam cenias was already known to the early settlers in North America. They collected the plants and sent them to Europe as inter esting exotics, where they were carefully described in botanical publications. As early as 1570, Lobel described specimens of the group which had come to his attention. Clusias (1601) (3) figures 8. Purpurea and Parkinson (4) copies his figure and adds a note which seems to indicate that he knew S. ?ow as well. Concerning this plant, which he calls The Hollow Leaved Strange Plant of Clusias, he writes: This strange plant hath such strange leaves, as the like are seldom scene in any other that we know growing, for they are nine or ten or more. Rising from the head of a small long roote, each by itsdie, being small below, and growing greater upward, with a belly as it were bunching forth, and a bowing backe, hollow at the upper end. With a peece thereon like a ?appe. And like unto the ?ower of Aristolochia, or Birthwort, and round at the mouth like a halie circle, full of gmt darke purplish veins on the inside; the whole leaf is of thicke substance almost like unto leather; among these leaves sprang a stalke but was broken short 06. So that what ?ower or seed it bore could not be oh served. This was sent to Clusius from Paris by one that te ceived it from Lishbone in the same manner. But of late Master John Tradescant the younger found this very plant in Virginia. Having his toppe thereon. Which he brought home and groweth with him. Which I here show you with Clusias his figure. The leaves are longer, narrower and not bellying out, and the ?ower is borne at the top of the roundish seed vessell. The specimen sent by Tradescant was probably 8.

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