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long, brownish and nerved: petals white, 8 mm, long, oblong-ovate, nerved: stamens 
none: ovary and stigmas pubescent: pod glabrate, 10 mm. long: staminate inflo- 
rescence unknown.—On limestone blufts of the Great Bend of the Rio Grande, 
2. TILLANDSIA L. (LONG Moss.) 
Epiphytes, with seurfy channeled crowded leaves, the 3 membrana- 
ceous sepals and 3 colored petals connivent below into a tube with lan- 
ceolate spreading lobes, hypogynous stamens, filiform style, 3 stigmas, 
cartilaginous pod (valves splitting into two layers), and several or 
many clavate pointed seeds raised on a long hairy-tufted stalk. 
1. T.usneoides L. (COMMON LONG-MOss. BLACK-MOss.) Stems filiform, branch- 
ing, pendulous: leaves thread-shaped: peduncle short, one-tlowered: flower yel- 
low.—Hanging on trees, forming long tufts, southern Texas, but not north of the 
mouth of the Pecos. 
2. T. recurvata L. Cespitose (1.5 dm. high): leaves 2-ranked, ash-colored, bris- 
tle-subulate, narrowly channeled, recurved, subterete, shorter than the stem, which 
is naked above and 1 or 2-tlowered: bracts 2 or 3, acuminate, longer than the 
calyx.—On trees in southern Texas and along the lower Rio Grande. 
HEMODORACER. (BLoopworr FAMILY.) 
Herbs, with fibrous roots, usually equitant leaves, perfect 3 to 6- 
androus regular flowers which are woolly or scurfy outside, tube of the 
6-lobed perianth coherent with the whole surface (or with merely the 
lower part) of the 3-celled ovary, introrse anthers, 3-parted (or single) 
style, 3 stigmas alternate with the ovary cells, and a many-seeded pod 
crowned or inclosed by the persistent perianth. 
1. ALETRIS L. (Conic-rooT, STAR-GRASS.) 
Smooth stemless bitter perennial herbs, with a spreading cluster of 
thin flat lanceolate leaves, small flowers in a spiked raceme terminat- 
ing a naked slender scape (6 to 9 dm. high), minute subulate bracts, 
seurfy and viscid (smooth within) 6-cleft perianth adherent to the base 
of the ovary, 6 short included stamens, subulate style 3-cleft at apex, 
minutely 2-lobed stigmas, ovate coriaceous pod, and the ovate ribbed 
seeds fixed at the base. 
1, A. aurea Walt, Leaves ovate-lanceolate, narrowed at base: raceme elongated 
(3 to6 dm. long), slender: flowers scattered, bell-shaped, yellow (or white), with 
short ovate lobes: style short, sub-conical, obscurely 3-cleft: pod as long as the 
perianth.—From Hockley to the Trinity. 
IRIDEZH. (Iris FAMILY.) 
Perennial herbs, with equitant 2-ranked sheathing leaves, perfect 
flowers, divisions of the 6-cleft petal-like perianth in two sets, the tube 
adherent to the 3-celled ovary, 5 distinet or monadelphous stamens 
alternate with the inner divisions of the perianth, extrorse anthers, 
3 stigmas opposite the ovary-cells, and a many-seeded 3-lobed loculi- 
cidal pod. 
