330 IXTACEAE 
long: perianth 8-14 mm. wide: capsule oval to subglobose, 3-5 mm. lon ng.— 
Fields, moist ay es woods, D erit and dol hu salt- -ma arshes, various 
provinces, Fla. , Mich., e.— —A. relatively slender 
pr.— 
plant of wide dioe, range, ju uo in the width of the leaves and scapes. 
14. S. d ssp Bieknell Plant rosulate, the pu up to E dm. long, often 
a cH leaves 2-8 em. long, light-green; blades 1 1.5-2.5 m vide: peduncles 
2—10 e m. long, slender, but often more broadly winged Mani the scape: spathes 
a > peri j g 
but We 2.5—3.5 mm. Wo pa often grassy dunes and mea ows 
| S. 
n its Meis habit 
15. S. minus Engelm. & Gray. Plant e in loose tufts, the branches up 
to 2 "ae pend iT zigzag: leaves 2-7 em. long, deep-green; blades t thin, 1-4 
mm. wide: scape branched and leafy from base, margin or narrowly 
winged: peduncle 4—6 em. long: the larger spathe-br -3.5 em. lon ri- 
anth old-rose, barely 1 em. wide: d nodding, light-brown, corrugat ob- 
long to narrowly obovoid, 3-5 mm. lon ng.—Dry, usually clay soil and E 
Coastal Plain, La. to cent. Tex x— Spr. 
16. S. Sus ownei Mr M Plant slightly p 10—15 em. tall: leaf-blades 
2-3 mm. wide: spathe green, the outer bract with the edges united 1-3 mm. 
above me base: portant yellow 5—7 mm. lon » the divisions with a brown nerve 
without and brown spots at the base within: capsule subglobose, 2-3 mm. long, 
green with brown stripes.—Low, swampy ground, ur Plain, S E La.—Spr. 
. NEUBECKIA Alef. Tufted grassy acaulescent herbs of dry woods or 
roeky ledges, with wiry, more or less knotted rootstocks, the roots fibrous. 
Leaves imbrieate on the flowering braneh.  Hypanthium-tube elongate, often 
filiform. Perai mainly blue or violet, and more or less variegated. Sepals 
with beaded or papillose crests. Capsules long-stalked, thin-walled. Seeds 
arillate.—About 12 species, nod distributed in ud rate regions.—Albino 
flowers occur in the several species.—Spr.—D WARF-IR 
Sepal pe a papillose crest: petals long-clawed : seed with a crest- 
like a 1. N. verna. 
io with a beaded crest: petals short-clawed : seed with a caudate 
ril. 2. N. cristata, 
N. verna (L.) Alef. Leaf-blades cpg ee linear, much elongating in a 
i at least on one side, mostly 4-8 m wide: flower violet- ere 
perianth aude violet-blue or rarely 
with a Ae eas yellow crest extending 
from the base of the claw well up i 
V .)— Open 
acid woods m dry Tu nelands, various 
provinees, Ga. to Miss, Ky. Pa.— 
The n rs e ie iris is quite Sener 
Sandy fields and woods where it abounds 
look as if dotted with large violets, and, 
moreover, its sole ae decidedly resembles that of the European sweet- 
violet. 
