054 AMAKYLLIDACE.K. 



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

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

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

 green; lip cre?tless, the middle lobe cunoate-oblong ; capsule erect. (Bletia 

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



HABENARIA, Willd. 



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

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

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

 unequally 2-parted, tlie 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 {Garher). 



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 ( Curtiss). 



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, 

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

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



Order AMARYLLIDACE^. 

 AMARYLLIS, L. 



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

 row (1^" wide), thick, semiterete with rounded margins, not shining; scape 

 4' -12' high; flowers ?/ long, white, the segments rather obtuse; capsule 

 broader than long, its peduncle 3" -9" long. — Low ground. East 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 (lF-2° long); scape many-flowered; tube of the 

 perianth (5' long) usually longer than the recurved white divisions; crown 

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

 Sandy coast of South Florida. July. 



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

 shaped (2"" long) ; scape thick, glaucous, rather longer than the leaves, 

 2-flowered ; tube of the perianth (3' -4' long) thick, shorter than the yellow- 



