246 Sir J. E. Surru's Botanical History 
6. T. elutinosa, racemo ovato coarctato, pedunculis glutinosis 
scabris longitudine corolle, antheris orbiculatis exsertis. 
T. glutinosa. Pursh Amer. Sept. 246. | 
Narthecium glutinosum. Michaux Boreali-Amer. v. i. 210. 
Native of North America, from Quebec to lake Mistassins, ac- 
cording to Michaux. Ourspecimen was gathered by Mr. Men- 
zies, on the west coast of North America, and is the same with 
what Mr. Pursh saw in the Banksian herbarium. We have no 
reason to suspect the plant of Michaux to be different. He 
says it has “the habit of the Linnean Anthericum ossifragum,” 
and that * the spike consists of a few alternate fasciculi ; the 
capsule is ovate, twice as long as the calyx." By calyx, he 
means corolla, and by spica, racemus, as is evident from the rest 
of his account. Mr. Pursh therefore is inaccurate in copying 
his phraseology, which contradicts his own generie character 
of Tofieldia. 
Mr. Menzies's specimen has a — tuberous hertzontal root, 
with long simple brown fibres, being undoubtedly perennial, like 
the rest of the genus. Stem erect, a foot high, angular, at least 
when dry, roughish all over with short glandular hairs; more 
densely hairy for the space of two inches from the top, where it 
bears a small leafy bractea, possibly not constant. - Leaves rather 
few, all radical, except one or two on the very lowest part of the 
stem, which do not rise above the others; they are all erect, four 
or five inches long, narrow, ribbed, bright green, smooth, except 
a slight roughness towards the point. Cluster scarcely an inch 
in length, ovate, obtuse, of twelve or fourteen flowers, on hairy 
_ stalks, sometimes in pairs, hardly a quarter of an inch long, erect 
or slightly spreading, having at the base one or two membranous 
acute bracteas, one-third their own length. Calyx not deeply 
lobed. „Petals yellowish, obovate, about as long as the flower- 
stalks, 
