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ANTHERICUM SEMIBARBATUM. HALF- 
BEARDED ANTHERICUM. 
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Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—AspHopELEz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium sexpartitum, patens, «quale, deciduum. 
Anthere versatiles. Ovarium loculis | Sade eee Stylus 
filiformis. Stigma subpapillosum. Capsula subglobosa, 
3-locularis, 3-valvis, valvis medio septiferis. Semina pauca, 
angulata, umbilico nudo. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
ANTHERICUM semibarbatum ; radicibus fibrosis, filamentis 
declinatis (exterioribus imberbibus?). Br. 
ANTHERICUM semibarbatum. Br. Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. v.1. 
p. 275. Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 330. 
Burzine semibarbata. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 86. 
Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 445. 
Gime 
Descr. Root fibrous. Leaves all radical, from six inches 
to a toot long, subulate, rounded at the back, grooved in 
front, glaucous-green, paler and yellowish below. Scape 
one and a half or two feet high, rounded, glaucous-green, 
earing at the extremity a raceme of flowers, of which a 
few (two or three) only are expanded at atime. Perianth 
of six ovate, obtuse, spreading, bright yellow pieces, with 
& greenish nerve on the back. After flowering, the pedicels, — 
Which are an inch or more long, become very erect, and the 
perianth withers, persists, and changes to a yellow-brown 
colour. Stamens six, declined, all of the filaments with a 
tuft of yellow hairs above the middle. “Anthers wt 23 
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