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Anthericum ? plumosum. Bearded-flow- 

 ered Anthericum. 



Class and Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Asphodelej3. Br. ) 



Generic Character. 



Perianthium sexpartitum, patens, aequale, deciduum. 

 Stam. 6. Filamenta (omnia vel interiora) barbata. An- 

 therce versatiles. Ovarium loculis polyspermis. Stylus 

 filiformis. Stigma subpapulosum. Capsula subglobosa, 

 3-loc, 3-valv., valvis medio septiferis. Semina pauca, an- 

 gulata, umbilico nudo. Br. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Anthericum ? plumosum ; scapo- bi- 4-floro subfolioso, pe- 

 talis interioribus barbatis, capsulis elongafis trigonis, 

 stylo brevi. 



Anthericum plumosum. Ruiz et Pav. v. 3. t. 300. /. b. 

 Sch. Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 481. 



Descr. Root, according to Ruiz and Pavon, composed 

 of oblong, fasciculated tubers, attenuated at their base, and 

 bearing fibres. Leaves mostly radical, from four to six or 

 ten inches long, linear-subulate, channelled, striated, glau- 

 cous-green, quite glabrous, those of the stem or scape 

 remote, gradually shorter upwards. Scape mostly simple, 

 short and naked, or bearing only one leaf, in our specimens 

 a foot and more high, bearing three or four leaves or 

 oracteae, and sometimes forked. Flowers, generally two 

 a * the extremity of the scape or branch, with a bractea at 

 fheir base, pedicellated. Perianth small, cut into six deep, 

 hnear-oblong, patent divisions, each white at its margin ; 



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