238 Sir J. E. Surrn's Botanical History 
plant Abama; but the prior right of Narthecium, published in 
1742, is irrefragable. 
The genus whose illustration is the object of the present disqui- 
sition, may therefore be considered as now established beyond the 
reach of controversy, under the following name and characters. 
ToFLELDIA. 
Huds. Fl. Angl. 157. Sm. Fl. Brit. 397. Dryand. in Ait. Hort. 
— Kew. v. ii. 324. Pursh Amer. Sept. 216. Decand. Fr. v. iii. 198. 
‘Anthericum. Linn. Gen. Pl. ed. i. 106. Hall. Hist. v. ii. 98. 
Narthecium. Ger. Gallopr. 142. Juss. Gen. 47. Lamarck Illustr. 
t. 268. 
Isidrogalvia. Ruiz et Pavon Peruv. v. iii. 69. Dryand. 
Cuar. Ess. Calyx trifidus. Petala sex, qualia. "Styli verti- 
cales, breves. Capsule tren super | bagi ven Dee 
Anthere subrotunde. Se 
CHAR. pcm 
Cal. Perianthium inferum, remotiusculum, monophyllum, mem- 
branaceum, trifidum, parvum, persistens. 
Cor. Petala sex, oblonga, concava, æqualia, patentia, persisten- 
tia, calyce multoties longiora. * 
Stam. Filamenta sex, petalis opposita, subulata, simplicia, gla- 
bra, longitudine corollæ.  Antherz incumbentes, cordato-sub- 
-` rotundae. 
Pist. Germina tria, supera, conniventia, acuminata, desinentia 
_ in stylos brevissimos, verticales, distantes. Stigmata capitata. 
Peric. Capsulz tres, basi connexæ, gibbosæ, carinatæ, membra- 
nace®, uniloculares, bivalves, intüs præcipuè dehiscentes. 
Sem. Numerosa, elliptico-oblonga, angulata, valvularum mat- 
gini internæ utrinque inserta. sa 
Né cum, 
