236 _ HEXANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. 
persistent, spreading. Anthers compressed. Seeds very 
numerous, terete, caudate. (Nearly allied to Marthecium.) 
Roots horizontal, aggregate; leaves ensiform gramine- 
ous, arid; scapes naked, often pubescent and scabrous; 
spike lobed, flowers mostly aggregated by 3s. 
2. pusilla. 3. pubescens. v, v. in Sussex county, Dela- 
ware. Ons. Petals greenish-white, linear-obovate, obtuse; 
scape scabrous and pulverulently pubescent; flowers ag- 
gregated in 3s, subtended by as many minute bractes; 
- anthers roundish-cordate, flat, grayish-purple; capsule 
*.  -brown and indurated, margin of the valves inflected, se- 
: miniferous above, summits bifid. Seed caudate. 4. giuti- 
mesa. v. v- Abundant around Detroit, Michigan territory. 
Nearly allied to the preceding; but the petals are oblong- 
eqs ene Tofieldia, besides the above, there is 1 
species in Europe and another in the Andes of Peru.— The 
section here denominated Vriantha is unquestionably a 
genus distinct from the European Tofieldia, as well as from 
the plant of Carolina, 7. glabra; it approaches to’ Warthe- 
cium by the seed, but the flowers are caliculate, and the 
filaments of the stamina smooth. 
349. SCHEUCHZERIA. L. 
 Calia 6-parted, Corolla none. Anthers linear. 
__ Stigmas sessile, lateral. Capsules inflated, dis- 
tinct, mostly 2-seeded. Seeds smooth, cylindric- 
ovate, with a longitudinal carinate suture, 
(black. : 
A plant indigenous to sphagnose morasses, with some- 
what horizontal roots, or a Jateral mode of growth; leaves 
distichally sheathing, those of the infertile shoots very 
and attenuated, convex and carinate; on fertile stems, 
short; sheaths distinct; flowering stem flexnose, frondose, 
- © Mumerously jointed; peduncles distant, solitary, sheathed; 
_- flowers greenish and inconspicuous. 
Spectres. 1. S. palustris. v. v. In sphagnose cranberry 
_© sWamps, New Jersey, near Philadelphia, plentiful, but £ 
have not seen it in any other part of America. Ons. Leaves 
_ of the infertile shoots near 18 inches long, very narrow 
_ und linear. Roots loaded with persistent vestigia; raceme. . 
5 to 7-flowered, lowest peduncles longest and subtended 
by sheathing leaves, which diminish upwards into short 
bractes. Capsules 3, oval, inflated, with compressed mar- 
gins. Seeds almost uniformly 2 in each. , as large 
as those of Garden Balsam iens chinensis) black and 
