G54 AMARYLLIDACEiE. 



C. Woodfordii, Lindl. ! Scape more slender (2° -3° high); leaves 

 rigid, linear-lanceolate (1 long); racemes rather closely flowered (2'-4' 

 long) ; flowers small, shorter than the linear bracts ; sepals and petals 

 green; lip crestless, the middle lobe cuneate-oblong ; capsule erect. (Bletia 

 verecunda, 1st edit, in part.) — Low sandy pine barrens, Florida. 



HABENARIA, Willd. 



H. Garberi, Porter. Hoot a globular tuber; stem erect (1° or more 

 high) ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, widely spreading ; spike loosely many- 

 flowered; perianth greenish yellow, lateral sepals broadly ovate; petals 

 unequally 2-parted, the upper lobe wedge-shaped, truncate; the lower fili- 

 form ; lip linear, obtuse, entire; spur as long as the ovary. — Damp shady 

 woods; .Manatee, South Florida (Gurber). 



H. distans, Griseb. Stem leafy at base (1° high) ; leaves elliptical- 

 oblong, acute (4' -6' long); racemes few-flowered; bracts oblong-lanceolate, 

 shorter than the ovary ; flowers distant (4" long) ; petals 2-parted, the upper 

 lobe oblong, the lower linear; lip 3-parted, the segments linear, spreading; 

 spur as long as the ovary. — South Florida (Curtis*). 



SPIRANTHES, Richard. 



S. simplex, Gray. Root a single tuber: stem short (6' high), with 

 withered leaves at the base ; spike not twisted ; flowers very small, white, 

 the lip obovate-oblong, crenulate, with slender prominences at the base. — 

 Nashville, Tennessee (Dr. Gattinger), and northward. 



Order AMARYLLIDACE^E. 



AMARYLLIS, L. 



A. (Zephyranthes) Treatise, Watson. Bulb small ; leaves very nar- 

 row (H" wide), thick, semiterete with rounded margins, not shining; scape 

 4?-VX high; flowers 3' long, white, the segments rather obtuse; capsule 

 broader than long, its peduncle 8" -9" long. — Low ground, Fast Florida 

 (Mrs. Mary Treat). April and May. 



HYMENOCALLIS, Salisb. (Pancratium, 1st edit.) 

 H. Caribsea, Herb. Bulb large, with short runners ; leaves broadly lan- 

 ceolate, erect-spreading ( 1 '. -2° long); scape many-flowered; tube of the 

 perianth (■>' long) usually longer than the recurved white divisions ; crown 

 short-funnel-Bhaped, entire, or with few teeth between the filaments.— 

 Sandy coasl of South Florida July. 

 H. crassiflora, Herb. Bulb large, with runners; leaves erect, strap- 



shaped (2P long); scape thick, glaucous, rather longer than the haves, 

 2-flowered ; tube of the perianth (:: - 4' long) thick, shorter than the yellow- 



