XEicofHrLLUM. HEXANDRIA, TRIGYNIA. 37 i 



Elliott Sk.l.p. 422. Asi'HODELUS minor albus, P luk, 

 Mant, 29, t. 342. f. 3. 



R»ot somewhat bulbous. Radical leaves forming large tufts, 

 dry and caricine, about a foot in length and very narrow ; 

 leaves of the scape or stem numerous, scattered, setaceous. 

 Scafie 3 — 5 feet high, erect, simple, terete. Flowers white, in 

 a large terminal raceme, jpedicels an inch or more in length, 

 filiform, with a long setaceous bract near the base, and another 

 below the flower. 'Corolla deeply 6-parted ; segments oval-ob- 

 long, persistent ; the alternate segnients rather shorter and 

 narrower. Stamens about the length of the corolla ; filaments 

 subulate, compressed, contiguous at the base; anthers large, 

 roundish. Germen subglobose. obtusely triangular; styles ; 

 stigmas linear, united at the base, but revolute above. Capsule 

 subglobose, obtusely 3-lobed ; cells opening from the summit 

 to near the middle, 2-seeded. Seeds oblong, compressed. 



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

 parts of Monmouth county. June. 



Few herbaceous plants of North- America can vie with this 

 in stateliness and singularity of appearance. It is very distinct 

 from Helonias in habit and structure. The H. tenax of 

 Purs h forms a second species of this genus. 



236. TOFIELDIA. Hudson. 



Calyx 3-cleft. Petals 6. Anthers roundish. Styles 

 vertical, short. Capsules 3, superior, united at the 

 base, many-seeded. Seeds naked. Smith Fl. Brit, 

 L p. 397. ' Ejusd. in Lin. Trans. XII. p. 238. JVu 1 1. 

 Gen. I. p. 235. Narthecium Juss. p. 47. An- 

 THERicuM L. Nat. Ord. JuNCE^ /w.s.y, Melan- 

 TKA.CEM R. Br own. 



T. pubens D r y a n (L : flowers on a scape; rachis and 

 pedicels scabrous ; spike oblong, interrupted ; capsules sub- 

 globose, scarcely longer than the calyx. D ry an d. in Hort, 

 A'ezt;. ed. 2. 11. p. 323. E //i o / f ^F/t. I. p. 424. Smith 

 in Lin. Trans. XII. p. 243. T. pube.scens Pers. Syn. I. p. 

 399. Pursh FL I. p. 246. Kutt, Gen. I. p. 236. 

 Narthecium pubens Mich. F/. I. p. 209. Melanthium 

 racemosuniWal t. C'a>% p. 170. Anthericum calyculatum. 

 Q r on. Virg. 3 1 . 



Root sometimes tuberous. Leaves mostly radical, narrow-ensi- 

 form, about a foot long, very smooth. Scafie with one or two 

 leaves near the base, a foot and a half high, covered towards 

 the summit with a glandular pubescence. 7?acf m^ spikt-d ; 

 the lower flowers mosilyby threes; pedicels 1 — 2 linen long, 



