LEUCOJACEAE 317 
Seed nearly or quite beakless, Poe a corm- 
scales membranous, often dark and thicl 5. H. micrantha, 
ee oe crudely pebbled : corm-scales ‘becoming fibril- 
6. H. Wright. 
I. 
Plants with elongate corms: perianth bright-yellow. 7. H. juncea. 
1. H. hirsuta (L.) Coville. Corm with T pale or brown-tinged 
sheaths: leaf-blades 8 mm. wide or less, 1-6 dm. long, pubescent, stiff: scape 
slender, gs h, 4-35 em. long, 2-7 flowered: era small, subulate or linear- 
subulat sepals lanceolate, elliptic, or 
elliptic. lanceola ate, pubescent  withou 
petals elliptie or ms ovate, 6. 5-15 
ong: anthers about 3 mm. long: 
mm 
long, pubescent: seed 0.8—1.3 mm. long. 
[H. erecta L. H. grandis Pollard.|—Dry, 
often acid soil, open woods, hillsides, 
and pastures, various provinces, Fla. to 
Tex. Man., and N. H.—Spr.—fall. 
2. E: aee Du dare & Gray. Simi- 
lar H. hirsuta in habit, but corm 
sr with 1 scales: leaf- blades 15 
or less, up to 80 mm. long, 
the "leaves, e pubescent e lly stale seape filiform, lax, 1-3-flow 
slen 
bracts slender, often elongate: sepals linear to narrowly linear- lanceolate, one 
ingly pubescent “peta linear lanceolate ee Need or eT -lanceolate, 6.5-8 
. lon ng: about long: eapsule clavate ellipsoid-clavate, 
6-11 m Ta 2501 us or “sparingly ma md seed m Ros larger than in 
H. hirsuta, me decumbens (Chapm. Fl.) H. Curtissii Rose]|—Damp sandy 
soil, wet hammocks, swamps, and Baton lands, piled tal Plain and rarely more 
northern DE Fla. to Tex. and N. C. —Spr.- 
3. H. rigida Chapm. Corm somewhat elongate, covered with bristly fimbriate 
scales: leaf-blades re rather stiff, ee mm. wide, 0.7-4 dm. long, pubescent: 
cape very slender 2-3 dm. long, minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous, 1—3- 
flowered: bracts ae e: sepals Duc. to elliptic, 7-12 mm. long, densely 
out 1 
n diameter, with short rounded papillae. —Low pinelands, ' Coastal Plain, 
Fla. E Tex. and N. C.—Spr.—fall. 
4. H. sessilis L. Corm d e ae covered with membranous scales: 
lcaf-blades narrowly linear, i vide, E 30 em. long apad r firm, sparingly 
pubescent: scape very s short o m (o 8 em. lon ng, filiform, pubescent, usually 
l-flowered: bract minute: sepals jue or elliptic- ducc ate, 5-11 mm. long, 
ob r 
tuse or aeutish: petals slightly broader than the sepals: anthers 2 O 
quit 3 . long, sely pubese seed 
oval, mm. in diameter, the fiat pebbled surface covered with an iridescent 
film "Pinelands, Coastal Plain , Fla. to Tex. and N. C.—Spr.-fall.—Specim 
an C.—Spr. 
from S. C. etimes have one oe of the perianth missing, and the TEM 
seris are a to be often pale or white. 
H. micrantha Pollard. Corm somewhat elongate, covered with dark scales 
which rarely break down into fibrous bristles: leaf-blades narrowly linear, 1-6 
