240 Sir J. E. Surrn's Botanical History 
zag fibres. Leaves composing numerous radical tufts, dark green, 
 equitant, sword-shaped, ribbed, two inches long. Stem erect, 
from four to six inches high, solitary, simple, round, quite smooth, 
. naked ; triangular at the base, where it often bears one small leaf, 
not rising above the others. Flowers pale green, very small, in a 
little oblong, obtuse, generally very dense head, from a quarter to 
half an inch in length. -The partial flower-stalks are entirely want- 
ing, the calyx being crowded close to the main stalk, with hardly 
any perceptible bractea. The base of the flower within the calyx 
is however elongated, assuming, as the fruit advances, the appear- 
ance of a thick stalk, swelling upwards, half a line in length. 
Calyx very deeply divided into three acute segments, small, mem- 
branous, and whitish. Petals hardly a line long, obovate, gene- 
rally quite obtuse, concave, greenish-white, longer than the sta- 
mens.. Germens combined into a nearly globular form, with three 
furrows. St yles extremely short, spreading, with abrupt, slightly 
capitate, stigmas. Capsules converging, roundish-obovate, each 
about the size of mustard-seed, obtuse, with a minute spreading 
point crowned by the style. | 
` Such is the original Lapland plant of Linneus, exactly agree- 
ing with specimens from Scotland and the county of Durham, as 
represented in Engl. Bot., and answering precisely to the T. pusilla, 
adopted by gem from Michaux. With this has all along been 
. confounded a Swiss species, which we are next to describe, and 
which is the only plant known to botanists of the South of Eu- 
rope as the Linnæan Anthericum calyculatum. Dillenius caused 
this confusion, as appears by the Flora Lapponica ; where Linnæus, 
who strongly suspected these two plants to be different, but never, 
to the day of his death, saw more than one of them, was induced 
by his learned rs pensent to consider them as varieties of each 
other. 
2. T. al. 
