410 BROMELIACEJ.  (PINE-APPLE FAMILY.) 
anthers oblong. Style subulate, erect, persistent and separable: stigma entire. 
Capsule ovate, coriaceous, 3-ribbed and 3-furrowed. Seeds anatropous, few, 
linear-oblong, curved, fixed at the base. 
1. L. aurea, Ker. Stem erect, finely pubescent above, mostly simple; 
lowest leaves linear-sword-shaped, acute, equitant, the others diminishing up- 
ward, remote ; flowers small, yellow within, in close or open corymbose woolly 
racemes. (Conostylis Americana, Pursh.) — Wet pine barrens, Florida, and 
northward. July.— Stem 2° high, creeping at the base. Leaves 4' - 12 long. 
Flowers 3" long, nodding in the bud. 
3. ALETRIS, L. Srar-crass. 
Perianth tubular, scurfy and viscid without, smooth within, 6-cleft, the tube 
adnate to the base of the ovary. Stamens 6, very short, included: anthers 
sagittate. Style subulate, erect, persistent, and separable: stigmas 3. Capsule 
ovate, coriaceous. Seeds ovate, ribbed, fixed at the base. — Perennial herbs, 
with slender scape-like linear-bracted stems, bearing at the base a cluster of flat 
spreading leaves, and at the summit numerous small white or yellow flowers ina 
spiked raceme. : 
1. A. farinosa, L. Leaves lanceolate, very acute, sessile; spike sho: 
(3'-12'), rigid; flowers approximate or crowded; perianth white or yellow, 
nearly sessile, cylindrical, with narrow and spreading lobes; style slender, sub- 
ulate, 3-cleft ; capsule ovate-lanceolate, longer than the perianth. — Pine-barren 
swamps, Florida to North Carolina. May and June. — Scape 29-39 high. 
Leaves 3'-—6' long. Perianth 4" long. 
2. A. aurea, Walt. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, very acute, narrowed at the 
base; raceme elongated (19 —29), slender; flowers scattered ; perianth white or 
yellow, short-stalked, globose-ovate, with broad and connivent lobes ; style short, 
somewhat conical, obscurely 3-cleft; capsule ovate, as long as the perianth. — 
Low sandy soil, Florida to North Carolina. May and June. — Scape veu 
high. Leaves 2/-4'long. Perianth 2" — 3" long. 
Order 146. BROMELIACEJE. (Pixr-ArrtE FAMILY) 
Chiefly scurfy epiphytes, with fibrous roots, rigid leaves, and regular 
conspicuously bracted mostly spiked flowers. — Perianth free, or more E 
less adnate to the 3-celled ovary, 6-parted, imbricated, the three outer 
divisions calyx-like. Stamens 6: anthers 2-celled, introrse. Ovules mi- 
merous, anatropous, erect or pendulous. Placentæ central. Style single: 
stigmas 3. Fruit berry-like, or 3-celled, 3-valved capsule. Seeds stalked. 
Embryo small, at the base of copious mealy albumen. — 
A; L. Lone Moss. Arm-PrANT. E 
