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1. USNEOID 



T. peduncul 



bi 

 filiformi, fl 



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s i.floiis 

 caule ramoso 



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dulo 

 for in 

 346. 



fo I iis 



?xiioso pen 

 subulato-fili 

 PersooUj i. p 



Peduncles 1 flowered, 

 short ; stem brandling^ 

 filifornij flexuous, pendu- 

 lous ; leaves subulate, filU 

 form. 



Sp.pl. 2. p. 15, Walt. p. 1 19. Mich. 1. p. 195. Pursh, 1. p. 21/.' 



Perennial, parasitical, taking root in the fissures of the bark of trees. 

 Stem Jong, covered and somewhat roughened as well as the leave* 

 'with membranaceous scales dotted in t!ie centre; the centre of the 

 stem and leaves composed of a filiform, black, horny thread, resexa- 

 blmg the internal structure of tlie Gorgonia and other Zoophytes. 

 ieai'p.9 like the stem, nearly terete. Flowers solitary, axillary, ses- 



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4 



sile, with 3 or 4 small leaves surrounding; their base. 



(W;<M^ 



folia divided nearly to the base ; segments kuceolate, membranaceous, 

 of the same length. Filaments S ? shorter thaa the. corolla, aud in^ 

 serted between the segments. Jinthers erect. Germ guperior, ob- 

 ^ Style half as long as the stamens. Stigma obtuse, 3 cleft. 



long. 



Capsule nearlj cylindrical, 2—3 celled, the cells separating whe* 

 mature, and opening on the interior side. Seeds several (3 to 9) Ik 

 each cell, ohlong, acute at eacli end, crowned with a long tuft of hair.- 



Grows on every tree in the low country. 



Flowers through the summer. 



Long mossk 



Black cattle eat this plant in winter with avidity, and sometimes 

 .rees are felled during a series of severe frosts to place the moss with- 

 in their reach. The moss, when dried, is beaten until the bark falls 

 oft and the cartilaginous hair-like flexible stem used for stuffing mat* 

 tresses, chairs, &c. . 



2. B 



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r. foliis subulatis, ca- | Leaves subulate, chan 



haliculatisj pi 



e- 



nelled, hoary 



lagineisque 



basi dilatatis caiti- lated and 



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« 



plici foliis breviore, sum 



scapo Sim- base ; scape simple, shor 



bifloro 



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ter than the leaves, S 

 flowered at the summit 



Tillandsia monostachja ? Bartram's Travels, p. 59. 



Rant fibrous, insinuating itself into the bark and decayed wood of 

 old trees. Zf apes about a foot long, subulate, or semiterete, chatt- 

 nelled on the inner side, covered with whitish leprous scales. Spikt 

 simple, leafy J the upper leaves lanceolate, acuminate, imbricate, tioa 



ged at base with pink, the last bearinc ia its bosom two iov. er». 



