244 Sir J. E. Suirü's Botanical History 
nified. A is the calyx with its flower-stalk and bractea, B, a 
petal. C, Stamen. -D, Germens and styles. 
4, T., cernua, racemo cylindracco, floribus cernuis, bracteis brevis- 
simis, pedunculis glabris longitudine corollæ, caule aphyllo. 
Anthericum filamentis levibus, perianthio integerrimo. Gme- 
lin Mss. 
— A.n.89. Gmelin Sibir, v. i. 73. t. 18. f. 2; the synonyms al- 
: together erroneous. 
Native of mountainous woods, near the river Lena, in Siberia, 
flowering about the end of July. Specimens in flower and 
fruit, sent by Gmelin, are preserved in the Linnæan herba- 
rium; and we find with astonishment that when the first edi- 
tion of the Species Plantarum was written, they were con- 
founded with the genuine Lapland Anthericum cal; lyculatum, 
even by Linnzus himself. 
'The present most distinct species is as different from T. palus- 
tris as two plants of one natural genus can well be. It is more 
akin to our second and third species, with which it accords in ge- 
neral aspect, but the roofs are of a more creeping nature, and the 
stem is taller, a foot or more in height, quite leafless, except at 
the very base, cylindrical throughout, glaucous in the upper part. 
Leaves narrow, near three inches long, with a small oblique point ; 
their edges rough toward the extremity. Cluster erect, many- 
flowered, from two to four inches in length, rather lax, but 
scarcely interrupted. Partial flower-stalks nearly horizontal, slen- 
der, angular when dry, quite smooth, about one eighth of an inch 
long, and as the fruit advances becoming still longer. Bracteas 
solitary at the base of each stalk, and about a quarter as long, 
ovate, keeled, a little recurved. Flowers white, drooping, about 
twice the size of Convallaria bifolia. Cale dilated, with three 
shallow, 
