126 LILIACEAE 
1. TOFIELDIA, Huds. (Tofield, an English botanist) 
Perennial plants with narrow flower clusters, each terminal to a long and 
slender flower-stem (spike, raceme, I, Il, p. 36, Part I). Leaves narrow, 
grass-like and mostly at the base. Flowers with both stamens and pis- 
tils, white or green, spreading, each subtended by a small, scale-like 3- 
parted involucre. At base of each flower stem is a small, green, leaf- 
like bract below the calyx. Segments of the perianth without claws. 
Stamens bearing anthers which look inward. Capsule 3-angular and 
separable into 3 parts, each part with many seeds. 
1. T. glutinosa, (Michx.) Pers. GLutTinous TorretprA. Stem 6 to 
20 in. high, covered with soft, viscid hairs. The flower pedicels very 
glutinous and clustered in 3’s. Seed with a long tail at each end. Cap- 
sule oblong. 
2. T. racemosa, (Walt.) BSP. (Fig. 5, pl. 11.) Vuiscip Tortenpra. 
Stems very viscid, downy, somewhat taller than No. 1. Flowers clustered 
in 3’s. Seed with a short tail at each end, in an oval capsule. Swamps, 
southern New Jersey and southward. 
2. NARTHECIUM, (Moehring), Juss. (Abama, Adams) 
Perennial herbs with the general appearance of Tofieldia. Flowers 
small, greenish-yellow. Segments of perianth 6, linear-lance-shaped. No 
involucre at base of flower as there is in Tofieldia. Seeds appendaged at 
end. Capsule oblong-cylindric. Stalk less viscid than that of Tofieldia. 
Stamens covered with white hairs. 
N. americanum, Ker, AMeErRIcAN Boa AspHopeL. Stem 8 to 20 in. 
tall, not hairy, wiry. Basal leaves 3 to 8 in. long. Flower cluster 1 
to 2 in. long. Rare, swamps in southern New Jersey. 
3. HELONIAS, L. 
Perennial herbs in bogs. Leaves evergreen, broadly spatula-formed or 
inversely lance-shaped, all from the base. Stem surmounted by a some- 
what narrow bunch (raceme) of purple flowers. Perianth of 6 parts. 
Seed with a white tail at each end. Capsule broadly egg-shaped. 
H. bullata, L. (Fig. 2, pl. 11.) Swamp Pink. Stem 1 to 2 ft. high, 
with few or no bracts. Southern New York, New Jersey and Penna. 
Rare. 
4. XEROPHYLLUM, Michx. 
Tall perennial herbs with woody rootstock, very slender linear leaves 
and with very numerous showy white flowers in a slender cluster (II, 
p. 36, Part I). Petals without glands at base, widely spreading; sepals 
white resembling petals, oval. Stamen filaments dilated at middle. Cap- 
sule oval, or nearly globular, 3-grooved. The summits of the 3 styles 
turn outward. Each of the 3 lobes of the capsule with 2 seeds. 
X. asphodeloides, (L.) Nutt. Turkry-Bearp, Stem 24 to 5 ft. high, 
many leaves below with few above. Leaves from the base 1 ft. or more 
in length and 1/12 of an inch broad. In pine barrens of New Jersey and 
southward. May-July. 
