498 MAYACACEH. (MAYACA FAMILY.) 
crowded, short-stalked, hooded, narrowed at the base ; sterile peduncle included ; 
petals nearly alike, the odd one smaller; seeds transversely oblong. (C: hirtella, 
Vahl. C. longifolia, Michx.) — Shady swamps, Florida, and northward. Aug. 
and Sept. l} — Stem 19 - 11? high. 
2. TRADESCANTIA, L. SPIDERWORT. 
Flowers regular. Sepals herbaceous. Petals similar, ovate, fugacious. Sta- 
mens all fertile, the filaments hairy: anthers kidney-shaped. Ovary 3-celled, 
with two ovules in each cell. Capsule 2—3-celled, the cells 1-2-seeded. — 
Perennial herbs, with narrow keeled leaves, both the floral ones and those of 
the stem. Flowers in umbel-like clusters, axillary and terminal, expanding in 
the morning. Fruiting pedicels recurved. 
1. T. Virginica, L. Smooth, or villous with glandless hairs; leaves 
linear, broadest at the base, mostly purple-veined ; clusters axillary and termi- 
nal, sessile, many-flowered ; flowers closely packed in 2 rows in the bud, each 
with an ovate scarious bract at the base ; petals blue, like the style and densely 
bearded filaments, twice as long as the lanceolate-ovate sepals. — Dry sandy soil, 
Florida, and — March - May.— Stems 19-29 high. Flowers l' in. 
diameter. 
2. T. pilosa, Lehm. Stem often branched, and, like the sheaths, villous 
or nearly smooth ; leaves oblong, narrowed at the base, pubescent on both sides ; 
clusters axillary and terminal, sessile, dense, many-flowered ; the pedicels and 
oblong sepals villous with glandular hairs; seeds transversely oblong, pitted on 
the back ; petals blue. — Light soil in the upper districts. May -July.— Stem 
1°-13° high. Leaves 1'-11' wide. Flowers 3’ in diameter. 
3. T. rosea, Vent. Stem simple, slender, smooth; leaves linear-lanceolate, 
fringed on the margins; clusters solitary or by pairs, on long (3'—6/) terminal 
peduncles, few-flowered ; petals bright rose-color, three times as long as the 
_ ovate-lanceolate sepals, — Light fertile soil, Georgia to North Carolina. June- 
Aug. — Stem 6'—8' high. Flowers }' in diameter. 
Orper 156. MAYACACE/E. (Maraca Family) 
Creeping moss-like marsh herbs, with very numerous narrow and pe 
lucid Jeaves, and solitary axillary flowers. Represented only En 
Poet 
; D | l. MAYACA, Aublet. 
PUN ae: perfect. Sepals 3, lanceolate, herbaceous, picti Pel 
3, obovate, deciduous or withering-persistent. Stamens 3, free, inserted ne i 
base of the sepals, persistent: anthers erect, spoon-shaped, imperfectly * 
emarginate at the apex, introrse. Ovary l-celled. Ovules few, or 
fixed to three intse. Sois singe semua ents prinio : 
