HEiANDRiA MONOOYNMA. Phalangium. 227 



agreeable sweet taste. They form a great part of their 

 winter stores. Though an agreeable food to Govs'nor 

 Lewis's party, they occasioned bowel complaints if 

 eaten in any quantity. 



296. NARTHECIUM. Smithji. Int. 1. p.36S. Ker in 

 tot. mag. 1505. 



l.N. raceme interdom interrupte spicato laxo, bractea una americarmm, 

 caulina pedicellum ampJexante, altera interne pedi- 

 cellari palcaceo-setacea, lana filamentorum brevissima. 

 Ker I. c. 

 In boggy fields and woods, on the pine-barrens of New 

 Jersey. 1/ . June, July. v. v. Flowers yellow. It 

 approaches very near to N. Ossifragiim, and is only 

 ditferent in the situation of its bracteas, which nice 

 distinction was very ingeniously observed by Mr. Ker. 

 For a considerable time I considered this plant to be 

 N. glutinosum of Michaux; but the close investigation 

 of Mr. Ker on this subject has convinced me of hav- 

 ing been in an error. Vid. Bot. mag. 1505. 



297. ORNITHOGALUM. Gen. pi. 566. 



1.0. corymbo paucifloro, pedunculis bracteis longioribus, umlellatuw, 

 filamentis subulatis, Wdld. sp. pi. 2. p.ll6. 

 Icon. Jacf^. austr. 4. t. 343. 



In grass-plots and near gardens; probably not indigenous. 

 % . May. V. V. Flowers white. 



298. YUCCA. Gen. pi. 580. 



l.Y. acaulis; foliis lato-lanceolatis integerrimis margine JUamentosa. 



filanientosis, stigmatibus recurvato-patentibus. — 



Willd. sp. pi. 2. p. 184. 

 Icon. Trew ehret. t. 3y. 

 On the shores of Virginia and Carolina, and in the 



western parts thereof". 1/ . July, Aug. v- v. Flowers 



white, very showy } and the plant is from four to five 



feet high. 



2, Y. acaulis ; foliis longo-linearibus rigidis margine raro anguslifoUa. 

 filamentosis, capsulis magnis cbovato-cylindraceis. 

 On the banks of the Missouri. 7/ . July, Aug. v. s. 

 in Herb. Nultall. From two to three feet high ; leaves 

 very narrow ; capsules large, 

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