of the Genus Tofieldia. . 2 | 948 
three-cleft. Petals rather more yellowish, scarcely so long as the 
stamens. They are represented too narrow and acute in M. Re — 
douté’s figure.» Capsules combined almost all the way up, making - 
together a roundish-elliptical three-lobed figure, larger than a cori- 
ander seed, of a light brown, transversely corrugated, their point: 
widely spreading, crowned with the short thick styles, and ca pitate 
stigmas. The seeds are extremely numerous. The wooden cut of the 
old authors above cited, is quite as expressive as the copper-plate 
of Seguier, commended by Villars, and copied by Lamarck. 
& T stenopetala, racemo cylindraceo, bracteis calycem superan- 
tibus, caule glabro diphyllo, petalis lanceolatis acutis. 
Gathered by Kalm in North America, but in what part we are 
unable to determine. Three of his specimens are preserved in 
the Linnean herbarium. : 
This, which Linnæus did not distinguish from his Anthericum 
calyculatum, is most akin to our Tofieldia alpina, with which it 
accords in size and habit, as well as in bearing two, sometimes 
three, alternate distant leaves on the stem. The inflorescence is a 
dense obtuse cluster, one inch and a half long, interrupted in the 
lower part. The bracteas however afford a clear specific difference, 
being lanceolate, and extending not only to the summit of the short 
and thick partial flower-stalks, but often reaching much beyond 
the calyx, which latter is very broad and shallow, unequally three- 
cleft, sometimes with a few supernumerary teeth ornotches. The 
petals are very different in shape from both the preceding species, 
being lanceolate and acute. Their colour seems a greenish white. 
Anthers pointed. Germens ovato-lanceolate,. Styles twice as long 
as- thelaébe. u^ 4. | 
of the natural size, with the separate parts of fructification mag- 
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