ftamina fuperante, triquetro-aciculari, apiculo ftigmatofo 



depreffiufculo fubpenicellatim pubefcente. (7. 

 ANTHERICUM annuum. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2. 1. 446. Mill 



Diff. ed. 8. *. 7. Lam. Encyc. 1. 199. n. 4. Medic us Bot. 



Beobacht. (1783.) 49. Hort. Kew. 1. 450. ed. 2. 2. 270. 



Decand. pl.gr. 8. Willi. Sp. PL 2. 145. 

 A. foliis carnofis fubulatis planiufculis. Hort. Up/. 83. Mill, 



Dicl. ed. 7. ?i. 7. 

 A. acaule, foliis fetaceis caule anguftioribus. Wachend. Ultraj. 



305- 

 ASPHODELUS africanus anguftifolius luteus minor. Tourne/. 



M- 343- 



Descr. An annual fibrous-rooted plant; leaves feveral, 

 6 — 8 inches high, filled with watery pulp ; /cape one or more 

 of the fame ihape, but rather thicker than thefe; raceme 7 — 14- 

 flowered ; lower pedicle an inch or more long, green, ftraighu 

 others fimilar but gradually fhorter ; corolla yellow, fcarcely 

 half an inch in diameter ; /egments marked with a green ex- 

 ternal vertical fubcarinate line ; anthers pale yellow ; Jligma 

 whitifh ; cap/ule membranous round-trigonal ; /eeds tetrahcdral, 

 3 — 4 in each cell, blackifh. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 Cultivated by P. Miller, in 1748. Flowered at Mr. Ha- 

 worth's, where bur drawing was taken, in Auguft. G, 



