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_ AspHopELus Fistutosus. Onton-Leavep | 
| ASPHODEL, 7 Rage. 
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“HeExanprRIA MonoeGynlia. ~ 
Generic Character.—Vid. Nx 799. Z ‘2 
Specific Charaer and Synonym 6 
ASPHODELUS Siftulofus ; radicibus fibrofis; foliis fubfiftu- 
lofis, obtufe fubtriquetris, longinque attenu- 
atis, ftriatis, {cabridiufculis, ftriGiufculis. G, 
ASPHODELUS jifulofus. Linn. Sp. 444. Gertn. Frnd. 1. 
68.¢.17.f.1. Hort. Kew. 1.447. Cav.le.g. 
t,202. Decand. et Lam. Fl. Frang. 3. 204. 
n.1906. Brot. Flor. Lufit. 1. 525. Desf. Fl 
- Atl. 1. 303. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2.-1393- 
ASPHODELUS minor. Clu. Hif. 197. cum Ic. 
‘ASPHODELUS foliis fiftulofis. Bauh. Pin. 29. Mee 
Gamoncillos. Valentinis. Cebolla de Culebra. Granatenfibus. 
(a) caule ramofo. G. SS ee : 
(y) caule fimplici. G. : 
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_ _Deser. Root flefhily fibrous, perennial ; /eaves many, tufted, 
ambient, ereét, fubfiftulofe, bluntly triquetral, far-acuminate, 
flriated, fomewhat rough ; fem central, about two feet high, 
longer than the leaves, upright, divergently branched, panicled, 
OF fimple, flethy, naked ; inflore/cence racemole; corolla ex- 
Planate, fegments lanceolately oblong; ji/aments fubclavate, 
divergent, alternate ones fhorter; on broad membranous fhaggy 
fes, which meeting together enclofe and adapt themfelvesto 
«Me germen ; fligmas capitellate ; cap/ules coriaceous, tranfverfely 
wrinkled, about as big as a pea; /eeds brown, two ineach cell, 
One often abortive, oblong, triquetral, attenuated downwards, 
