of the Genus Tofieldia. / 241. 
2. T. alpina, racemo cylindraceo, bracteis pedunculo subæqua- 
libus, caule glabro diphyllo, petalis obovatis, germinibus 
oblongis. 
T. palustris. Decand. Fr. v. iii. 193.  Redout. Liliac. t. 256. 
Anthericum n. 1205. Hall. Hist. v.ii. 98 ; excluding the syno- 
nyms of Moering and Gorter. 
A. Pseudoasphodelus. Jacq. Enum. 59, 233. 
Narthecium iridifolium. Villars Dauph. v. ii. 225. 
N. calyculatum. Allion..Pedem. ©. ii. 165. Lamarck Franc. 
w. iii. 298. | 
Scheuchzeria Pseudo-asphodelus. Scop. Carn. v. i. 263. 
Phalangium alpinum palustre, iridis folio. Tourn. Inst. 368. 
Segu. Veron. v. ii. O1. t. 14. Scheuchz. It. v. i. 139. 
Pseudo-asphodelus alpinus. Bauh. Pin. 29. 
Pseudo-asph. pumilus, foliis iridis. Clus. Pan. 261. t. 262. 
Pseudo-asph. secundus. Clus. Hist. v. i. 198. 
Pseudo-asph. quibusdam. Bauh. Hist. v. ii. 624 ; the descrip- 
. tion, not the figure, which represents a Pancratium. 
Asphodelus Lancastriæ verus. Ger. Em. 96. 
Very common in moist grassy pastures on the alps of Europe, 
throughout Austria, Switzerland, the south of France, and 
north of Italy, flowering in August. Scheuchzer says it grows 
on the shady dry ridges of hills, and he therefore wonders at 
'Tournefort's epithet of palustris. I have gathered this plant in 
the boggy margins of alpine rivulets, on the plain of mount 
Cenis. Seguier, Villars, and Allioni speak of it as an inhabi- 
tant of rich, moist, or spongy soils, among grass. Notwith- 
standing what is said in Gerarde's Herbal, there is no auth 
rity for its ever having been found in Britain. it 
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