BROMELIACE^. (PiNE- APPLE FAMILY.) 511 



purple inside, flattish laterally, convex above; sterile stamen lanceolate. — 

 Bogs, X. Y. and Penn. to Minn., Mo., and Ky. ; rare. May, June. 



3. C. parviflorum, ISalisb. (Smaller Yellow L.) Stem 1-2° high 

 leaves oval, pointed ; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; lip flattish from above, 

 bright t/e/low {V long or less); sterile stamen triangular. — Bogs and low 

 woods, Newf. to Ga., west to Minn, and E. Kan. May, June. — Flowers fra- 

 grant; sepals and petals more brown-purple than in the next, into which it 

 seems to pass. 



4. C. pubescens, Willd. (Larger Yellow L.) Stem 2° high, pubes^ 

 cent, as are the broadly oval acute leaves; sepals elongated-lanceolate ; lip flat- 

 tened lateralltj, very convex and gibbous al ove, H-2' long, pale yellow.^ 

 Bogs and low woods ; same range as the last. 



•*- •(- Sepals and petals plane, rounded, ichite, not longer than the lip. 



5. C. spectabile, Salisb. (Showy L.) Downy, 2° high ; leaves ovate, 

 pointed ; sepals round-ovate or orbicular, rather longer than the oblong petals ; 

 lip much inflated, ichite, pink-purple in front (H' long) ; sterile stamen heart- 

 ovate. — Peat-bogs, Maine and W. New Eng. to Minn, and Mo., and south in 

 the mountains to X. C. July. — The most beautiful of the genus. 



* * Scape naked, 2-leaved at base, I flowered ; sepals and petals greenish, 

 shorter than the drooping lip, which has a closed flssure down its whole 

 length in front. 



6. C. acaule, Ait. (Stemless L.) Downy; leaves oblong; scape 8- 12' 

 high, with a green bract at top; sepals oblong-lanceolate, pointed, nearly as 

 long as the linear petals; lip obovoid or oblong, rose-purple (rarely white), 

 nearly 2' long, veiny ; sterile stamen rhomboid. — Dry or moist woods ; Newf. 

 to N. C, west to N. Ind., Mich., and Minn. May, June. 



Order 111. BK03IELIACE^. (Pixe-apple Family) 



Herbs (or scarcely woody plants, nearly all tropical), the greater part epi- 

 phytes, with persistent dry or fleshy and channelled crowded leaves, sheath- 

 ijig at the base, usually covered icitli scurf; Q-androus ; the 6-cleft perianth 

 adherent to the ovary in the Pine-apple, etc., or free from it in 



1. TILLANDSIA, L. Long Moss. 



Perianth plainly double, 6-parted ; the 3 outer divisions (sepals) membrana- 

 ceous ; the 3 inner (petals) colored ; all connivent below into a tube, spreading 

 above, lanceolate. Stamens 6, hypogynous 1 or the alternate ones cohering 

 with the base of the petals ; anthers introrse. Ovary free ; style thread-shaped ; 

 stio-mas 3. Capsule cartilaginous, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved ; the valves 

 splitting into an inner and an outer layer. Seeds several or many in each cell, 

 anatropous, club-shaped, pointed, raised on a long hairy-tufted stalk, like a 

 coma. Embryo small, at the base of copious albumen. — Scurfy-leaved epi- 

 phytes. (Named for Prof Til lands of Abo.) 



1. T. usneoldes, L. (Common Long Moss or Black Moss.) Stems 

 thread-shaped, branching, pendulous ; leaves thread-shaped ; peduncle short, 

 1-flowered; flower yellow. — East Shore, Va., south to Fla., and westward; 

 growing on the branches of trees, forming long hanging tufts. 



