278 MELANTHIACEAE 
spike-like racemes. Sepals and pou green, linear, elliptic, or lanceolate, 
shorter than the filaments. vules 
in each cavity. Capsule of 
conic type.—Five known species in North 
America 
1. S. dubium (Mich.) Small. Scape 
9 dm. tall, E 1 a Duos eaves 
green; bla ides wide 
6-8 mm. wide; pets pon P. 
pointed: sepals and petals about 2 
mm 
. long, the herbaceous tips often 
a i ts 2-3 mm. long: cap- 
long. 
s EON, ca ) — Pinelands, 
Coastal Plain, Fla. = pre 
10. CHROSPERMA Raf. Stout caulescent herbs. Leaves many at the 
base of the stem, few and small above; blades elongate, flat. Flowers perfect, 
thick raceme. — and sie 
m glandless. Carpels united bel 
the middle. Capsule with E m ae 
lobes.—-One species. 
i. C. muscaetoxicum ( Walt.) Kuntze. 
Stem 3—14 dm. tall, sparingly leafy: leaf- 
en linear: racemes 5-15 em. lo 8; 
bout 14 as thick: sepals oval or subor 
Beyer 3-3.5 mm. long: petals elliptie, 
4—5 mm. long: capsu ule broader than high 
the ED turgid, 4-6 mm. long. [Ami- 
anthium muscaetoxicum A. ray 
CROW-POISON. FLY-POISON. ST. ELMOS- 
FEATHER.) iekets, acid ib. and 
pinelands, various m Fla. to Ark 
and N. Y.—Sum ery toxic alkaloid is -o in the foliage and the 
roots. Cattle are Fon poisoned by eati 
11. OCEANOROS Small. Slender 
caulescent herbs, the rootstock fibrou 
upper ones not fruit-produe 
petals cream-colored or d s yellow, 
elawless, each with a pale gland. Seeds 
RATI 
few.—Following is the only known species: 
O. leimanthoides (A. Gray) Small. 
Stem 5-24 dm. tall: leaf-blades linear: 
1 s and petals 
th 
nus levrmanthoides A. Gray |—Sandy a and acid sand-hill bogs, Coast 
Plain, Ga. to S La. and and N. J.; acid woods, Blue Ridge and 1 Appalachian 
provinces, Ala. to Va.—Sum. 
