Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-  Plate No. 803

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-COMMON_NAMES- Channel-leaved Helonias
-GENUS- Helonias
-SPECIES- Helonias laeta
-CLASS- Hexandria
-ORDER- Trigynia
-AUTHORITY- Gawler

-MODERN_GENUS- Amianthium
-MODERN_SPECIES- Amianthium muscaetoxicum
-MODERN_FAMILY- Liliaceae. Also placed in Heloniadaceae Melanthiaceae.

-PLANT_TYPE- perennial
-COLOR- white
-SEASON- "It blooms in June, and is generally kept in a pit or under a 
          frame during the winter months."
-NATIVE_REGION- North America:  Lower Caroline
-ZONE- 4

-SOURCE- The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME- 21
-PUB_DATE- 1805
-REISSUED- __
-EDITOR- John Sims
-ARTIST- S. Edwards, Sansum
-NALPCD- Disc 0427 IMG0051.PCD
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