HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 919 
Caudex sometimes ligneous and ascending; leaves radi- 
j cal, or comose, rigid, and channelled, with the point and 
i often the margin spiny, younger leaves obvolute, or rolied 
around each other spirally; panicle ascending from the 
F caudex, very large and pyramidal. A genus scarcely dif- 
E fering generically from Aloe except in the situation of the 
capsule, which is inferior. ‘ 
Species. 1.A. virginica. From Virginia to Florida, 
also in Upper Louisiana. Se B 
An American genus, chiefly tropical. .4. americana is 
i probably the largest of all herbaceous plants, its panicles 
I of flowers aré of the magnitude of small trees. In Peru 
; and Mexico it has long been cultivated by the indigenes 
| and colonists for various and important economical pur- 
I poses. It affords an abundant vinous liquor and by dis- 
Hy tillation alkohol, of the fibres of its enormous leaves are 
made thread and paper, Kc. 
| $20. HEMEROCALLIS. LZ. (Day Lily.) 
Corolla campanulate; tube cylindric. Stami- 
| na declinate. Stigma rather smali, simple, and 
: partly villons. 
Roots fascictilated; scape corymbose. 
Species. 1.H. fulva. Leaves broad linear, carinate, 
& tals flat and acute, nerves of the petals undivided. 
iLLp. Sp. 2. p. 197. Naturalized in moist meadows 
around Philadelphia, and also in secluded situations on 
the banks of the Schuylkill. Ihave introduced it into 
the American Flora to mark its future progress, which is 
already such, as easily to impose upon a stranger for an 
indigenous plant. i he 
. : The H. fava and H. graminea, are said to be natives of 
Siberia, and H. fulva of the Levant; there are also 3 
other species of this genus indigenous to Japan. — 
| $21. PHALANGIUM. Tournefort. — ee 
| Corolla of 6 petals, spreading. Filaments 
| naked or smooth. Capsule ovate. Seeds angular. 
Roots often fibrose or fasciculate. Leaves flat. Flow- 
ers mostly white or purplish. . 
Species. 1, P. esculentum. T. N. in Pras. Catal. 1813. 
Scilla esculenta. Bot. Mag. 1596. P. Quamash, Parsh,. 
Flor. Am. 1. p. 226. In the spring of the year 1810, f 
discovered this plant near the confluence of Huron river 
and Lake Erie, i have since found it abundantly imalluvial 
¥ 2 Me aed 
