ASPHODELUS TENUIOR. SLENDER-LEAVED 
ASPHODEL, OR KING’s SPEAR. 
Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
_Cor. 6-partita. Nectarium ex valvulis sex, germen 
tegentibus. Se 
ae 
+ ieee 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Aspnope.us tenuior ; caule superne nudo, foliis subulato- 
triquetris striatis, racemo laxo, bracteis flore breviori- 
bus. Marsch. v. Bieb. Flor. Taur.-Cauc. 3. p. 268. 
Sprengel Syst. Veg. 2. p. 83. : 
Aspuopetus tenuior. Cat. Hort. Gorenki, ann. 1812. p. 9. 
This species has the greatest affinity with AspHopELus 
luteus (supra 773), from which it differs, in being alto- 
— smaller, with finer leaves, smaller, fewer, and paler 
owers ; but is more especially distinguished by the stalk 
being naked at the upper part for a considerable distance 
below the raceme of flowers, and the bractes being as short 
as, or shorter than the peduncle. | ; 
Mr. AnpvErson, the worthy curator of the Chelsea Botanic 
Garden, received this plant through Dr. Fiscuer, now of 
the Imperial Garden, at Petersburgh, who first recorded it in 
his catalogue of the late Counr Razoumorrsxy’s Garden, 
at Gorenki, near Moscow. Pie bt Le 
A hardy perennial. Native of Northern Caucasus where 
. a in the spring. Our drawing was taken in July, 
