358 HAEMODORACEAE 
Famity 4. HAEMODORACEAE — BrLoopwonT FAMILY 
erennial caulescent herbs. Leaves alternate, often mainly basal: 
blades narrow. Flowers perfect, in terminal cluster rs. lyx of 3 sepals. 
Ovary wholly inferior: stamens 3: style deciduous. EE 
Ovary half-inferior : stamens 6: style persistent. HIOLA. 
. GYROTHECA Salisb. Herbs with colored rootstocks. Leaves equitant. 
Flowers in a terminal cymose corymb. 
Perianth pubescent without, yellow within. 
Capsule erowned by the peristent peri- 
th. [Lachnanthes Ell.]—One species. 
1. G. tinctoria ler rw Root- 
stock elongate. Stem dm. tall, 
c 
stem, the HR radually reduced: 
il eapsule 5-6 mm. 
in We ee ROOT. E 
DyYE-ROOT.)—Bogs and wet pinelands, 
often RA Coastal Plain end New Eng- 
land Coast, Fla. to and Mass.— 
as r.—fall. Taa Lophiola 
aurea, but coarser and more weedy, and the pubescence of the perianth is tawny. 
2. LOPHIOLA Ker. Herbs with rootstocks and leafy stems. Basal 
leaves equitant, upright. Flowers in a 
j ow 
p 
although a somewhat divergent form oc- 
eurs further northward. 
1. L. aurea Ker. Stem 5-8 dm. tall, 
woolly above: leaf-blades linear, shorter 
than the stem: perianth yellow, pubes- 
cent without; lobes linear- lanceolate, 4— 
5 ong: capsule-body about 2 mm. 
mm. 
long, long-bea aked.— (GOLD-CREST.) —Moist : 
pi E e and acid Di. Coastal Plain, Fla. to Miss. and N. C.; also N. J.— 
Spr.— —The golden perianths showing through Scans. white w ool, form 
a aie inflorescence. 
ORDER 11. SCITAMINALES 
Large, commonly perennial, herbs with rootstocks or tubers. Leaves 
alternate, sometimes all basal: blades relatively large, sometimes very large: 
petioles sheathing at the base. Flowers very irregular. Perianth white or 
