346 HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. agave. 



Staminiferons filaments longer than the corolla, erect 

 Capsule triangular, many- seeded. Gen. pi. 582. 

 Nutt. Gen. I. p. 218, Juss. p. 51. Lam. III. 

 t. 23 5. Nat. Ord. BnoMELiiE Juss. Bastard Aloe. 



A. virginica L. : stemless, herbaceous; leaves with car- 

 tilaginous serratures; scape simple. Willd. Spec. 11. p. 

 193. J acq. icon. rar. 11, t. 378. Bot. Mug. t. 1157. 

 jM i c h. Fl. I. p. 187. Purs h FL 1. p. 226. Elliott 

 SA-. I. p. 402. Walt. Car. p. 121. Gron. Virg. 162. 



Root perennial, tuberous, praemorse. Radical leaves long, lanceo- 

 late, acute, very smooth, succulent ; stem leaves semiamplexi- 

 caul, acute, resembling scales. Scape 4 — 6 feel high, terete, 

 glabrous. Flowers sessile. Corolla fragrant, of an obscure 

 yellow colour, tubular, furrowed ; segments shorter than the 

 tube, acute. Filaments spotted, twice as long as the corolla, 

 inserted into its base. Style terete, shorter than the filaments, 

 spotted. Cafisule globular^ slightly 3-furrowed, 3-celled, 

 3-valved. Seeds numerous, compressed, angular, 2 -rowed in 

 each cell, attached to a central receptacle. Ell. 



Hab. In Pennsylvania. September. Muhlenberg. 



239. PHALANGIUM. Toumefort. 



Corolla 6-petalled, spreading. Filaments smooth. 

 Capsule superior, ovate. Seeds angular. Nu 1 1. Gen. 

 I. p. 219. Nat. Ord. Asphodele^ /w j;*. 



P. tsculmtwn A"" tit t.: root bulbous ; leaves all radical, 

 linear, carinate ; stigma minutely 3-cleft. N ut t, in F r a s. 

 Cat. 181.3. Ejusd. Gen. 1. p. 219. Torrty in Sill. 

 Jour. IV. p. 60. P. Quamash Pursh Fl. 1. p. 226„ 

 SciLLA escultnla Bot. Mag. t. 1374. 



Root an ovate tunicate bulb, about an inch and a half in diameter. 

 Leaves about a foot long, 4 — 6 lines broad, very smooth, striate. 

 Scafie longer than the leaves, simple, terete. Flowers in a 

 spiked raceme. Pedicels 1 -flowered, terete, longer than the 

 coloured subulate bracts at their base. Corolla 6-petalled, 

 pale blue, spreading ; petals linear-lanceolate, acute, 5-striate. 

 Stamens shorter than the corolla ; Jilaments subulate, very 

 smooth ; anthers large, oblong, yellow. Germen triangular ; 

 style filiform, rather longer than the stamens ; stigma slightly 

 3-cleft. Cafisule subglobose-triangular, 3-celled, many-seeded. 

 Seeds oblong, black. 



Hab. In Gross-Isle, Detroit River. May. Douglass. 

 This plant has not yet been discovered within the limits pre- 

 scribed for this work, though there is little doubt that it 

 exists on the shores of Lake Ontario, as well as on Lake Erie ; 



