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two species of small, inconspicuous herbs of shallow water or wet muddy- 

 shores. 



Bunchfloiirer Family 



M e 1 a n t h a c e a e 

 Glutinous Triantha or False Asphodel 



Triaiitha gliitinosa (Michaux) Baker 



Plate 9b 



A perennial, herbaceous plant, somewhat bulbous at the base; stems 

 6 to 20 inches high, viscid pubescent with black glands, bearing a few leaves 

 near the base; most of the leaves basal and tufted, linear and grasslike, 

 2 to 7 inches long. Flowers numerous in an oblong raceme at apex of the 

 stem, subtended by minute involucral bracts, each flower about one-fourth 

 of an inch broad, the perianth white, divided into six nearly equal oblong 

 segments; stamens six, with pink or reddish anthers; fruit a small oblong 

 capsule, the tiny seeds with a curved appendage at each end. 



An inhabitant of sphagntim or marly bogs from Newfoundland to 

 Minnesota, Michigan and the southern Alleghanies. By no means a 

 common plant, and one which the wild flower connoisseur always likes to 

 locate, and which repays by its rarity rather than its beauty the inevitable 

 journey to the boggy place where it grows. 



Glaucous Anticlea 



A lit idea chlorautha (Richardson) Rydberg 



Plate pa 



A slender, herbaceous, perennial plant from a membranous coated, 

 ovoid bulb which is about an inch long. Stems slender, 6 inches to 3 feet 

 tall; leaves linear, one-eighth to seven-eighths of an inch wide, keeled, the 

 lower ones 4 to 12 inches long, the upper ones much shorter. Inflor- 

 escence a simple, open raceme or large, loose panicle, 4 to 12 inches long, 

 with slender, ascending branches. Flowers perfect, greenish or yellowish, 

 about three-fourths of an inch broad; perianth segments oval or obovate, 

 obtuse, bearing a large obcordate gland just above the short claw, the 



