C 748 ] 



Helonias Asphodeloides, Grass-Leaved 



Helonias. 



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C/4/ir a»^ Order. 

 Hexandria Trigynia. 



Generic Charatler. — Vid. A w 747. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



HELONIAS qfphodeloides foliis fparfis, lineari-fubulatis vel 

 fubacicularibus, fcariofis, pallide ftriatis, coftatim 

 carinatis, margine fcabrida; racemo thyrfiformi; 

 brafteis fetaceis, vagis, in petiolo imis mediifve, 

 nunc etiam fummis atque flori adpofitis. G. 



HELONIAS afpbodeloides. Sp. PL 485. Hort. Kew. 1. 491. 

 Mart. Mill. DicJ. Willd. Sp. PL 2. 274. 



XEROPH YLLUM fetifolium. Michaux Bor-Amer. 1. 211. 



Obs. Vulgo huic adjeSfum Plukeneti fynonymon nolis minium videtur 

 ambiguum. G. 



Root fibrous. Leaves fparfe, fet rather thickly round the 

 ftem, numerous, narrow, not unlike thofe of fome pines, dry 

 and harm to the touch, ftreaked with pale lines, radical ones 

 recumbent linear-fubulate, keeled; ftem ones fetaceous, partly 

 adprelfed, all bending the fame way in a fpiral direction. Stem 

 fimple, fometimes a yard high. Flowers arranged in a lax, 

 elongately thyrfeform raceme. Petioles of the fame colour as 

 ^the corollas, than which they are many times longer; each 

 having a fingle bra6le, that is fometimes fituate at their bafe, 

 at others at their middle, and often clofe to the flower. Co- 

 rolla white, quite patent ; fegments oval, flat, the three alter- 

 nate ones rathrr the narrowett. Filaments fubulate, contiguous 

 at their bafes, and inferted under the germen, which is fome- 

 what globular and pulvinately trigonal. Styles or ftigmas, 

 narrow-lorate, channelled, from upright revolutely patent. 



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