, ° 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, - Phalangium. 
agreeable swee They form a great part of their 
-winter stores. gh an agreeable food to Governor 
Lewis's’ party, they occasioned bowel complaints if 
eaten in any quantity. - 
Lot. mag. 1505. 
+ 1. N. racemo interdum interrupte spicato laxo, bractea una 
caulina pedicellum amplexante, altera inferne pedi- 
wini paleaceo-setacea, lana filamentorutn brevissima. 
er l.c. 
` -= In boggy fields and woods, on the pine-barrens of New 
Jersey, Y. June, July. v.v. Flowers yellow. It 
) es very near to JV. Ossifragum, and is only 
i different in the situation of its bracteas, which nice 
distinction was very ingeniously observed by Mr. Ker. 
'or a considerable time I considered this plant to be 
N. glutinosum of Michaux; but the close investigation 
of Mr. Ker on this subject has convinced me of hav- 
ing been in an error. Vid. Bot. mag. 1505. 
297. ORNITHOGALUM. Gen. pl. 566. 
. corymbo paticifloro, pedunculis bracteis longioribus, 
filamentis subulatis, Willd. sp. pl. 2. p. 110. 
con, Jacq. austr. 4. t.343, - 
n grass-plots and near gar p not indigenous. 
. ay. viv. Pl j ite, Er 3 
3 298. YUCCA. Gen. pl. 580. 
V. Y. acaulis'y foliis: lato-lanceolatis integerrimis margine 
 filamentosis, stigmatibus  recurvato-patentibus.— 
_ Willd, sp. pl. 2. p. 184. 2x 
On the shores of Virginia and Carolina, and in thé 
— White, very showy ; and the plant is from four to five 
ES feet high. , T «cad: 
2. Y. acaulis; foliis longo-linearibus rigidis margine raro 
nentosis, capsulis magnis obovato-cylindraceis. 
of the Missouri. Y. July, Aug. v.s. 
capsules large. 
&2 
1296. NARTHECIUM. Smith fl. brit. 1. p.368. Ker in 
- western parts thereof. Y. July, Aug. v. v. Flowers- 
tall. From two to three feet high ; leaves — — 
umbellatum; 
filamentosa. 
