O aii; the wibo ate to ho er fo tho ovary. 
HÆMODORACEÆ. (BLOODWORT FAMILY.) 469 
2, H. juncea, Smith. Sparingly hairy ; leaves filiform ; scapes 1 — 3, fili- 
form, 1 -2-flowered ; bracts bristle-like, shorter than the villous pedicels ; divis- 
ions of the perianth oblong, the three exterior ones greenish and hairy without ; 
partitions of the capsule vanishing at maturity ; seeds black, minutely pitted. 
(H. filifolia, EU.) — Low pine barrens, Florida and the lower districts of Geor- 
gia, and westward. March and April. — Scape 4/-9/ long, at length procum- 
bent. Flowers 9” - 12// wide. 
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Orver 145. HJEMODORACE./E. (Broopwonr FAMILY.) 
Perennial fibrous-rooted herbs, with leafy or scape-like stems, mostly 
equitant and sword-shaped leaves, and regular woolly or scurfy flowers. 
— Perianth tubular, 6-cleft, more or less cohering with the 3-celled ovary. 
Stamens 3 or 6: anthers adnate, introrse, 2-celled. Ovules mostly few, 
anatropous or amphitropous, attached to the central placentz. Styles 3, 
united, deciduous, or persistent and separating: stigma entire. Capsule 
enclosed in the persistent perianth, loculicidally 3-valved at the "pex 
Embryo small, in hard albumen. 
l LACHNANTHES. Perianth woolly: stamens 3: style deciduous: flowers eymose: stem 
2. LOPHIOLA. Perianth woolly: stamens 6: style persistent: flowers corymbose: stem 
leafy. 
8. ALETRIS. Perianth scurfy : stamens 6: style persistent: flowers spiked: stem scape-like. 
1. LACHNANTHES, Ell 
Perianth woolly without, 6-lobed ; with the exterior lobes smaller ; the tube ad- 
nate to the ovary. Stamens 3, slender, exserted, opposite the exterior lobes of 
the perianth: anthers linear. Style filiform, declined, deciduous: stigma entire. 
Capsule globose, 3-angled. Seeds amphitropous, few, thin, orbicular, concave, 
fixed by the middle to the thick globose placente.— A apte plant, 
with orange-colored juice. 
1. L. tinctoria, Ell Root red, fibrous; stem mostly simple, villous ove: 
leaves linear-sword-shaped, smooth, the lower ones crowded and equitant, the 
others smaller and remote; flowers 2-ranked, crowded in lateral and terminal 
compound woolly cymes, yeti within; exterior lobes of the perianth linear; 
valves of the capsule separating from the placentæ ; seeds black.— Ponds and 
ditches, Florida, and northward. July- Se ped high. Leaves 
ee. Cette Bractslinear. = 
bo MES LOPHIOLA, Ker. ; 
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