344 HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNfA. coNosi-yLia. 



Etfoe fibrous, ci'eeping. Leaves narrow linear, ancipitous, very 

 smooth ; those about the root short and cespitose ; those on the 

 stem 4 — 6 inches long« Stem or scape a foot and a half highj 

 erect, terete; when young covered with a white tomentum. 

 Corymb many-fiovvered, woolly, at first contracted, but at length 

 expanding. Pediceld as long as the flowers, incrassated,brac- 

 teate at the base. Coxolla 6-cleft, yellow within ; segments 

 oblong, acute, reflexed ; the 3 interior ones narrower. Stamens 

 about as long as the corolla, and inserted opposite its segments -, 

 Jilamcais subulate, smooth ; anthers ovate, yellow. Germen 

 sen.isuperior, ruundish, smooth ; style subulate, as long as the 

 Stamens, divisible into 3 parts ; stigma simple. Cafisule ovatej 

 obtusely triangular, covered by the persistent calycine corolla, 

 which anheres to its base, acuminate, 3-celledj 3-valved 5 

 dissepiments arising from the centre of each valve. Seeds 

 10 — 15 in each cell, white, attached to the dissepiments, ob- 

 long, acute at' one extremity, longitudinally striate. 



Bab. In sandy swamps in the pine barrens of New-Jersey. 

 July— August. 



This plant differs somewhat from Conostylis of i?. Brow n.., 

 as defined in his profound work above quoted, but perhaps not 

 sufficiently to form a distinct genus. In the latter the pubes- 

 cence is rasnulose ; in the former simple. To Lachnanthee 

 of Elliott it has much resemblance in character and habit. 

 In Mu h I e n b erg* V Catalogue it stands as a native of New- 

 York, by the same mistake as that mentioned in page 38 of this 

 work» 



236. ALETRIS. L. 



Corolla tubulous-ovate, 6-cleft at the summit, ru- 

 gose, persistent. Stamens inserted upon the margin of 

 the orifice. Stt/le triquetrous, tripartile. Capsule semi- 

 superior, 3-celled, many-seeded, opening at the sum- 

 mit. Gen. pL 577. Nutt. Gew, L p. 217, Juss, 

 p. 51. Lam. Ill t. 237? Nat. Ordo Asphodelejk 

 Ju ss. Star-wort o 



I. A. farinosa L. : flowers- pedicellate, oblong-tubular; 

 the corolla when decaying nearly smooth ; leaves broad-lan- 

 ceolate. Willd. Spec. II. p, 183. Bot. Mag. t. 148. Big. 

 3;e(/. £os<. HI. p. 94. t, 50. £ / /i / / SA-. I. p. 398. Walt^ 

 Con p. 121. A. a/6a Jl//cA, F/. 1. p. 189. PurshFl. 

 I. p. 223. Hyacinthus caule nudo, &c. Cron. Virg, 38o 

 PtuJc, Amal. t/437. f. 2. 



Root premorse, perennial. LeaiJes all radical, 3 — 6 inches long, 

 and about half an inch broad, spreading in a stellate manner, 

 lanceolate, very smooth, of a pale yellowish-green colour, and 

 dry texture. Scape 2 feet or more in height, terete, striate, 

 very smooth, with several remote bracts. S/iike 4--.6 inches 



