-( 3017.) 
ANTHERICUM BULBOSUM. BULBOUS-ROOTED 
Lancasuire ASPHODEL. | 
Se ae ie is A a i 
Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeyni. | 
( Nat. Ord.—AsPHODELEZ. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium sexpartitum, patens, equale, deciduum. 
Anthere versatiles. Ovarium loculis polyspermis. Stylus 
filiformis. Stigma subpapillosum. Capsula subglobosa, 
3-locularis, 3-valvis, valvis medio septiferis. Semina pauca, 
angulata, umbilico nudo. Br. peo = i 
‘Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Antuericum* bulbosum ; bulbo depresso, filamentis decli- 
~ natis omnibus barbatis. Br. 
Anrnericum bulbosum. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 275. 
Burzine australis, Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 86. 
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Descr. Bulb in our plant roundish-ovate, somewhat 
truncate at the top, partly rising above ground, and bearing 
a few fleshy, short fibres. Leaves all radical, white at the 
, and surrounded by some lanceolate, sheathing scales, 
the rest darkish-green, linear, attenuated, semiterete and 
deeply grooved above, quite glabrous, 4 foot and more 
long. Scape a foot and a half to two feet and more high, 
Naked, terete, glabrous, bearing a raceme of numerous, 
dsome, bright-yellow flowers, which, as the flowers ae 
Pand, lengthens considerably. The buds are greenish, 
| pet Bd purple. Pedicels at leng h patent, gern 
* From aubegenos, as ta by the Greeks to the stem of the AsPHODEL. 
