Class VI. Order I. 131 



Syn. Hrpoxis CAROLIXIANA. Mich. 



The yellow, star-like flowers of this plant appear among the 

 grass in pastures, in June and after. Root bulbous. Leaves 

 grass like, hairy. Scape slender, hairy, divided at top into about 

 four peduncles, with subulate bractes or spathes at their base. 

 Corolla wheel shaped, of six lanceolate petals or segments, hairy 

 on the outside. Perennial. 



142. ALETRIS. 

 ALETRIS FARINOSA. Star Grass. 



Bigelovv, Medical Botany, PI. 1. 



Flowers pedicelled, oblong-tubular, somewhat wrink- 

 led in fruit ; leaves broad lanceolate. 



This plant has a single circle of radical leaves, sessile, nerved, 

 lanceolate, smooth. Stem or scape, from one to three feet high, 

 invested with remote scales, which sometimes expand into small 

 leaves. The flowers form a slender, scattered spike with very 

 hort pedicels and minute- bractes. Calyx none. Corolla white, 

 oblong bell shaped, divided at the mouth into six acute, spread- 

 ing segments. The outside, particularly as the flower grows 

 old, has a roughish, wrinkled or mealy appearance, by which the 

 specific name was suggested. Stamens short, inserted near the 

 mouth of the corolla at the base of the segments. The circum- 

 stance of their being opposite to the segments, and not alternate 

 with them, affords a distinguishing mark of this genus. An- 

 thers somewhat heart shaped. Germ pyramidal, half inferior, 

 tapering : style triangular, separable into three. Capsule in- 

 vested with the permanent corolla, triangular, three celled, three 

 Talved, at top. Seeds numerous, minute, fixed to a central re- 

 ceptacle. The root is intensely bitter. In low grounds, Bridge- 

 water. July. Perennial. 



143. STREPTOPUS. 



STREPTOPUS DISTORTUS. Jllx. Curling Streptopus. 



Smooth, leaves clasping; pedicels solitary, genicu- 

 late and contorted in the middle. 



Syn. UVULARIA AMPLEXIFOLIA. Willd. 

 Whole plant glabrous Stem round, branching. Leaves clasp- 



