198 HEXANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Scheuchzeria. 



manent, many times longer than the calyx. Filam. oppo- 

 site to the petals, awl-shaped, simple, smooth, the length of 

 the corolla. Anth. incumbent, roundish-heart-shaped. 

 Germens 3, superior, converging, pointed, terminating in 

 3 very short, vertical, distant styles. Stigmas capitate. 

 Caps. 3, tumid, keeled, membranous, connected at the 

 base, each of 1 cell and 2 valves, bursting chiefly at the 

 inner edge. Seeds numerous, elliptic-oblong, angular, at- 

 tached to the inner margins of the valves, at each side. 

 Herbaceous, perennial, with sword-shaped leaves; an almost 

 naked stem ; and capitate, spiked or clustered, green or 

 yellow, modoYows Jlowers. Six species are now described 

 in Tr. of L. Soc. 



1. T.palustris. Marsh Scottish Asphodel. 



Flowers in an ovate head. Stem smooth, thread-shaped, 

 leafless. Petals obovate, obtuse. Germens roundish. 



T. palustris. Huds. 157. Fl. Br. 397, excluding all the synonyms 



but the \st, 2d, and 8th. Engl. Dot. v. 8. t, 536. Hook. Scot. 1 14. 



Lond. t. 100. Winch Guide v. 1 . 35. 

 T. borealis. Wahlenb. Lapp. 89. 

 Anthericum calyculatum. Linn. Sp. PI. 417. Ft. Lapp. ed. 2, 106. 



t. 10./.3. Light/. 181. t.S.f.2. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 13. 11. 



FL Dan. t.36. 

 Helonias borealis. Willd. Sp. PL v. 2, 274, with great confusion of 



syn. 

 Phalangium Scoticum palustre minimum, iridis folio. Rail Syn. 37 o. 



Tourn. Inst. 369. 

 In the black boggy margins of pools and rills, on the mountains of 



Scotland, the north of England, and Ireland. 

 Common in the Highlands of Scotland. Sent to Professor Hooker, 



from near Middleton in Teesdale, Durham, by the Rev. J. Dal- 



ton. I have it also from the Rev. J. Harriman. 

 Perennial. August. 

 Root a little woody, with many long fibres. Herb smooth. Leaves 



sword-shaped, ribbed, incurved at the point, about 2 inches long, 



in two-ranked radical tufts. Stem solitary, 4 or 5 inches high,^ 



bearing a small oblong spike or head of green ish-vvhite^ozf;er*. 



206. SCHEUCHZERIA. Scheuchzeria. 



Linn. Gen. 178. Juss. 46. Lam. t 268. 



Nat. Ord. Tripetaloidece. Linn. 5. Jiinci. Juss. 13. N, 207 

 the same. 



Cal, none, except the corolla be taken for such. Pet* 6, in- 



