IlEXANDRIA MONOCYNIA. 



389 



This liowerer flowers generally in August, the L. superbum, in the 

 gardens in Cliarlesti>n, flowers in June. ■ 



Grows in damp soils, in the low country of Carolina. Not very 



common. 



Flowers July — August* 



5. 



SfTPERBLM. 



L. foJiis glubris, imis 



Leaves sjlabrous, lower 



Terticillalis, cajterisspar- leaves verticillate, 



the 



SIS 



? 



floribus lacemoso- rest scattered : flowers 



J 



pyramiilatis, reflexis ; co- 



rollis rcvolutis. 



^ 



Sp. 



p. 8S. 



Walt. p. 123. Par^h, 1. p. 230 



rcflecled, in a pyramidal 

 raceme; corolla revolute. 



lea ves 



Jioot a scaly bulb, producing offsets at some distance from the 

 parent root. Stem 4—8 feet high, terete, glabrous. Low 

 6 — 9, in a whorl, the upper scattered, all linear lanceolate, 3 nerved. 

 Corolla^ ^s in all of our species, of a bright orange colour, spotted 

 with dark purple. 



A splendid species, grow ing sometimes 7 — 8 feet high, and bearing 

 50 to 50 flowers, not more reiriarkable for the brilliancy of their co- 

 lour, tlian for their graceful arrangemciit. 



Grows in the vdllies of the upper country, and among the moun- 

 tains. 



Flowers July 



August. 



Superb lilhj. 



EllYTHRONIUM. Gen. pl. 505. 



Corolla G-pctaUi, cam- 



panulata ; neclario tu- 

 be rculis 2, pctalorum a!- 

 tcrnonim basi adiiatis. 



1. American U3I, 



E. stvlo clavato 



Corolla 6 pctalled. cam- 

 pan ul ate. Nectar 1} com- 

 posed of 3 tubercles, at- 

 tached to the base of the 

 alternate petals. 



3 



t npjo 



angled ; 



no ; foliis apice involutis. 



Smith, iu Kces' CycL vol. j at the point. 



14. 



Style club shapec?, S 



leaves involute 



E. lanceolatum, Pursli, 1. p. 231. 

 E. Dens can is, far. r. Sp. pl. 2. 



Mich 1. p. 198. 



Auon. pudic ? Walt. p. 123. 



p. D6. 



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