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HEXANDRIA MONOGlNlA 



i. 



Maj 



fol 



C scapo 



Isevi : 



S. 



Scape naked 

 leaves ovate. 



^*. 



. 160. 



Pursh, I. p. 232. Mich. I. p. 201. 



mowits noddino; on the spike, a little campanulate, white, fragrant 

 Grows on the highest mountains of Carolina. 

 Flowers May. 



HYPOXIS. Gen. pl. 565. 



^pallia 



3 valvis. 



Co. 



'S/7ff/^//e 3 valved. 



Co. 



superior. 



Capmle long, 



ro/Za 6-partita, persistens, | rolla 6 parted, persistent, 

 supera. Capmla eloiiga- " 

 ta, basi angustior. Semi- 

 na subrotuDtla, niida. 



1. Erecta. 

 H. pilosa,* scapo sub- 

 quadrifloro, foliis lineari- 



narjowcd at base. Seeds 

 iieuily round, naked. 



subulatis brcviore 



pe- 



Hairy ; scape general- 

 4 flowered, shorter 

 tban the linear subulate 



.« 



dunculis flore duplo Ion- | leaves ; peduncles tv*ice 

 gioribus. Sp. pl. 2. p. j as lon^ as the flower. 

 106.* 



Walt. p. 121. Pursh, 1. p. 224. 

 H. Carolinensis, Mich. 1. p. 188. 

 H. graminea ? Pursh, 1. p. 224. 



Mor>t a small solid bulb. Leaves all radical, subulate, entire, clian- 



nelled, hairy, 3 nerved, slightly dotted, 3-6 inches lone, 2 lines 

 wide. Scape 2-4 inches long, 1—4 flowered, slender, somewhat 

 compressed, hairy, redundes half an inch long, with a subuhnte sti- 

 puie at base. Petals expandinjr, yellow on the inner su.face, green 

 on the outer, twice as long as the germ. Filaments unequal, 3 half 

 as long as the corolla, 3 shorter. Anthers incumbent. Me sliort, 

 fiomewhat conic. Stipna glandular, placed along the sides of the 

 Style. Capsule 5 celled, 3 valved. ^eeds numerous i.. each cell, 

 ovate, attached to a central receptacle. 



As the flowers begin to expand as soon as they rise to the surface 

 Of the earth, the plant has probably in this state been taken for a distinct 

 species, and formed the H. sessllis. Dill. Hort. Elth. t 220. f. 387. 



urows in close soils, very common. 



Flowers March 



■April 



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nf +T,.*n P ■ , ^ JT^^y '" * ^^^J "c^ flat soil on tlic margin 

 of the Ogeechee, in ^vhich the bulbs were nearly aa inch in diameter, 



only dfstinJtbn! ' ""^Melliferous ; yet size appeared to be its 



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