470 BBOMELIACE^. (piNE-APPLE FAMILY.) 



anthers oblong. Style subulate, erect, persistent and separable : stigma entira 

 Capsule ovate, coriaceous, 3-ribbed and 3-furrowed. Seeds anatropous, few, 

 linear-oblong, curved, fixed at the base. 



I. 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) — Wot pine ban-ens, 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. Star-grass. 



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 in a 

 spiked raceme. 



1 . A. farinosa, L. Leaves lanceolate, very acute, sessile ; spike short 

 (3' -12'), rigid; flowers approximate or crowded; perianth white or yellow, 

 nearly sessile, cylindrical, with narrow and spreading lobes ; style slender, sub- 

 ulate, 3-elcft ; capsule ovate-lanceolate, longer than the perianth. — Pine-barren 

 swamps, Florida to North Carolina. May and June. — Scape 2° -3° high. 

 Leaves 3' - 6' long. Perianth 4" long. 



2. A. aurea, Walt. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, very acute, narrowed at the 

 base; raceme elongated ( 1°- 2°), 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 2° -3° 

 hiffh. Leaves 2' - 4' long. Perianth 2" - 3" long. 



Order 146. BROMELIACEiE. (Pine-Apple Family.) 



Chiefly scurfy epiphytes, with fibrous roots, rigid leaves, and regular 

 conspicuously bracted mostly spiked flowers. — Perianth free, or moi-e or 

 less adnate to the 3-celled ovary, 6-parted, imbricated, the three outer 

 divisions calyx-like. Stamens 6 ; anthers ^-celled, introrse. Ovules nu- 

 merous, anatropous, erect or pendulous. Placentae 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. 



1. TILLANDSIA, L. Long Moss. Air-Plant. 



Sepals rigid. Petals imbricated and tube-like below, spreading above. Sta- 

 mens filiform, hypogynous. Ovary free. Style slender. Capsule linear or 



