Ar,ETRis. tlEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA* 345 



long ; flowers numerous, but not crowded ; pedicels very short 

 with subulate bracts at the base, nearly as ions? as the flowers 

 Corolla white, scabrous-pulverulent ; seti;n»en(s acute. Sta 

 mens very short, inserted opposite the segmei-its of the corolla: 

 anthers sagittate. Style the attenuated summit of the germen 

 triangular ; stigma small, nearly simple. Capsule ovate, ob 

 tusely triangular, acuminate, 3-partile,t (or rather capsules 3, 

 partile when ripe opening on the inside and at the summit, 

 crowned with a part of the style ) Seeds very numerous and 

 minute, oblong, acute at one extremity, yellow, longitudinally 

 striated. 

 Hab. In dry sandy woods and on hill sides., July. Colic-roof. 



2. A. aurea Walt.: flowers subsessile, short, subcam- 

 panulate ; corolla when decaying rugose and very scabrous ; 

 leaves lanceolate. Wall. Car. p. 121. Mich. FL I. p. 

 225. WuRMBEA hullata W il I d, Horl. Berol. t. 8. 



Jioot large, premorse. Leaves all radical, lanceolate, acuminate. 

 Scape 2 — 3 feet high. Spike with fewer flowers than in the 

 preceding species. Pedicels very short, with the subulate 

 bracts at the base half the length of the flower. Corolla yel- 

 low, tubular-campanulate. Capsule as in A.Jarinosa. 



Hab. In the pine barrens of New-Jersey ; abundant. July- 

 August. 

 Scarcely a distinct species from the preceding. 



237. HEMEROCALLIS. L. 

 Corolla campanulate ; tube cylindric. Stamens de- 

 clined. Stigmas rather small, simple, somewhat vil- 

 lous. Gen. pL 585. Nu 1 1. Gen. 1. p. 219. Juss. 

 p. 54. Lam. III. t. 234. Nat. Ord. Narcis.si 

 .Tuss. ItLemerocallideje M. Brown. Day IJly, 

 H.fuhaL.: leaves broad-linear, carinate ; interior pe- 

 tals obtuse, undulate ; exterior nerves of the petals ramose. 

 Willd. Spec. II. p. 197. Kutt. Gen. 1. p. 219. 



Root fasciculate. Leaves very long Scape 3 feet high, corym- 

 bose at the summit. Flowers fulvous, large, fugacious. 



Hab. In wet rpCadows; beginning to be naturalized in many 

 localities. June — August. 



238. AGAVE. L. 

 Gorolla superior, erect, tubular or infundibuliform. 



f -l/r. JK'uitall remarks, that tjie capsule is firmly closed and indu- 

 rated at the summit. He supposes it to open horizontally all round. This 

 excellent Botanist could never have examined tlie fruit in its mature state, 

 or he would undoubtedly liave seen its true structure- 



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