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many-flowered, bracts thick, subulate, appressed ; leaves of the perianth 

 oblong-oval, 6-nerved, whitish ; filaments Bubulate. (S. Michauxii, 1st edit.) 

 — Wet pine barren-, Georgia and Florida. May and June. 



S. croceum, Gray. Scape Bimple (12' -16' high), leafless; Leaves dry, 

 narrow-linear, fiat, as long a> the scape; raceme . bracts thin and 



Bcarious, oval, obtuse'; leaves of tlie perianth saffron-yellow, lance-oblong, 

 3-nerved. (Phalangium croceum, Michx.) — Low ground, Southern Georgia 

 to Tennessee. June. 



LILITJM, L. 



L. Grayi, Watson. Leaves lanceolate (2' or less long), in whorls of 

 4-8, not acuminate ; flowers often solitary, horizontal (l£'-2£' long), the 

 segments oblanceolate, spreading but not recurved, deep reddish orange, 

 purple-spotted. — Summit of Roan .Mountain, North Carolina [Gray, SfC.). 



ERYTHRONIUM, L. 



E. albidum, Nutt. Leaves not spotted; flowers bluish white ; style 

 .-lender, the three stigmas distinct, spreading. — Summit of lioan Mountain, 

 North Carolina (Canby). 



Order JUNCACEJE. 



LUZULA, DC. 



L. Carolina?, Watson ? Villous ; lowest leaves broadly linear, as long 

 as the stem; stem-leaves 3, short (1' long), distant; umbel nearly simple, 

 the setaceous branches spreading or drooping, 1-flowered ; sepals ovate-lance- 

 olate, very acute, as long as the ovate-acute capsule; seed not appendaged. 

 — Shaded rocks on the mountains of Georgia and North Carolina. April. 



JUNCUS, L. 



J. Gerardi, Loisel. Stem terete (l°-2°high); leaves linear; panicle 

 contracted; flowers single; sepals oval-oblong, obtuse, the margins brown, 

 rather longer than the oval light brown capsule. (J. bulbosus of Authors, not 

 of L.) — Salt marshes, Florida, and northward. 



J. leptocaulis, Torr. & Gray. Stems low (6'-12'high), caespitose, slen- 

 der; leaves flat, few, shorter than the stem ; heads 1-5, 3-6-flowered ; sepals 

 ovate-lanceolate, nearly equal, awn-pointed, longer than the 3 — 6 stamens, 

 and obovate capsule; seed obovate, apiculate. — Nashville, Tennessee [Dr. 

 Gattinger), and westward. 



J. diffusissimus, Buckley. Stems leafy (£°-J3° long), weak; leaves 

 compressed, knotted ; panicle decompound, widely spreading, the clusters 

 5-7-flowered ; sepals equal, lanceolate, acute; capsule (4" long) oblong- 

 linear, barely acute, twice as long as the sepals ; seed ovoid, obtuse. — New 

 Orleans, Tennessee, and westward. 



