150 HEXANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Asparagus. 



Root perennial, consisting of many, fleshy, round 

 fibres ending in small, oblong tubers. Leaves radical, ma- 

 ny, ensiform, margins waved, smooth, from one to two 

 feet long ; and from two to four inches broad. Scapes 

 round, smooth, naked, from one to three feet long. Pani- 

 cles oblong, erect. Floivers numerous, sub-erect, pure 

 white, about the size and appearance of the snow-drop. 

 Filaments equal, simple, short, ascending. Anthers linear, 

 erect. Style ascending, projecting rather beyond the an- 

 thers. Stigma lobed. Capsule three-sided. 



1 have had many of the plants in my garden for seve- 

 ral years ; they are very beautiful when in blossom, and 

 have a long succession of flowers. 



ASPARAGUS. Schreh. gen. n. 573. 



Calyx none. Corol beneath, six-petalled. Germ supe- 

 rior, three-celled ; celh few-seeded ; attachment interior. 

 Berry three-celled, one or two-seeded. Embryo ser- 

 pentine, transverse, on the exterior side of an ample p4' 

 risperm, opposite to the umbilicus. 



1. A. officinalis. Willd. 2. 150. 



Stems herbaceous, columnar, erect. Leaves bristly. 

 Stipules in pairs. 



Pers. and Hind. Nak-doun. 



Beng. Hilyoon. 



Arab. Hulyoon. 



Found as in Europe, in a cultivated state only. 



2. A. acerosus. R. 



Herbaceous, erect. Thorns solitary, recurved. Leaves 

 three-fold, three-sided, acute, polished, permanent. Ra- 

 cemes lateral. 



A native of the interior parts of Bengal. Flowering 



