the natural ehara&er of the latter, that it can hardly admit of 

 a doubt with which to enrol it ; at all events it cannot be 

 fuffered to remain among the Anthericums. 



Bulb growing above ground ? covered with fcariofe fliffifh 

 integuments, fome of which are elongated into high roots ; 

 (heaths tranverfely waved or ridged ; leaves few, flefhy, con- 

 vex-channelled, narrow-attenuate ; fcape fhorter than thefe ; 

 raceme patent, ovate-oblong ; pedicles about the length of the 

 corolla ; braftes fphacelate ; corolla entirely patent, fegments 

 oval-oblong ; ftamens patent, fubulate ; ftyle fubclavately 

 filiform, obtufely triquetral, longer than both germen and 

 ftamens ; ftigma fubcapitate, hairy; feeds, according to Jac- 

 quin, black, feveral, membranoufly winged, flat, oblong, 

 polifhed. 



Jacquin applied the fpecific name of exuviata from fome 

 refemblance in the membranous tunics of the bulb to the 

 doughs annually caft by fnakes. G. 



