470 BROMELIACE^. (piNE-APPLE FAMILY.) 



anthers oblong. Style subulate, erect, persistent and sej)arablo : stij^ma entire. 

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

 lineur-oblong, curved, fixed at the base. 



I- L. aurea, Kcr. Stem erect, finely pubescent above, mostly simple; 

 lowest leaves linear-sword-sliapcd, acute, cqtiitant, the others diniiiiisliiii<j: up- 

 ward, remote; flowers small, yellow. within, in dose or open cory-iubosc woolly 

 racemes. (Conostylis Americana, Pursli ) — Wet pine barrens, Florida, and 

 northward. July. — Stem 2° hij;h, 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-clcft, the tube 

 adnatc 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. — Peix-nnial 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 ai)proximatc or crowded; perianth white or yellow, 

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

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

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

 Leaves 3'-G' 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 connivcnt lobes ; style short, 

 somewhat conical, obscurely 3-clcft; capsule ovate, as long as the jierianth. — 

 Low sandy soil, Florida to North Carolina. May and June. — Scape 2°-3*> 

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



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



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

 conspicuously bracted mostly spiked flowers. — Perianth free, or more or 

 less adnatc to the 3-cclled ovary, 6-parted, imbricated, the three outer 

 divisions calyx-like. Stamens G . antjiers '2-celled, intror.se. Ovules nu- 

 merous, anatropous, erect or pendulous. Placenta; central. Style single : 

 stigmas 3. Fruit berry -like, or 3-eelled, 3-valved capsule. Seeds stalked. 

 Embryo small, at tiie base of copious mealy albuuu n. 



1. TILLANDSIA, L. Lo.vg Moss. Aiu-Plant. 



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

 mens filiform, liypogynous. Ovary free. Style slender. Caj).sule linear or 



