of the.Genus Tofieldia. — — 245 
shallow,obtuse segments. Petals obovate, obtuse, slightly pointed, 
concave, the length of the flower-stalks, and keeping pace with 
them in their subsequent elongation, when the petals become very 
narrow at the base, Stamens shorter than the corolla; the anthers, 
according to Gmelin, yellow. Germens and styles much like 
T. stenopetala. Capsules quite pendulous, shorter than the per- 
manent corolla, obovate, very thin and brittle, combined nearly 
all the way up, but easily separated, each crowned with a straight 
spreading style, and capitate stigma. Seeds very numerous, small, 
slender, prismatic. - 
Gmelin mentions, on the authority of Steller, a variety with 
leaves upon the stem, which we should suspect to be a different 
species ; but without seeing specimens, we can determine nothing 
respecting this point. 
5. T. pubens, racemo cylindraceo interrupto, pedunculis fascicu- 
latis scabris longitudine corolle. 
T. pubens. Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. ii. 325. 
T. pubescens. Pursh Amer. Sept. 246. ; 
Narthecium pubens. Michaux Boreali- Amer. v. i. 209. 
Melanthium racemosum. Walt. Carol. 126. 
Anthericum filamentis levibus, perianthio trifido. Linn, Hort. 
Cliff. 140. Gron. Virg. ed. i. 39. | 
A. foliis ensiformibus, perianthiis trilobis, filamentis. glabris. 
Gron. Virg. ed. ii. 51. e 2 
Asphodelus minor albus. Pluk. Man t. 29. Phyt. t. 342. #5. 
Native of moist meadows, swamps, abd mossy boggy woods, in 
Virginia and Carolina, flowering in July. Clayton, Pursh. 
Having no specimen of this, I postpone its description, till I - 
can examine the Banksian herbarium. It makes the last of five 
species, which have been confounded together under the” Lin- 
nean Anthericum calyculatum. | 
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