LILIACER. 923 
Tripe I.—VERATREA. 
Perianth leaves free or sessile or with short claws, cohering at the 
base, and forming a short tube. 
Rootstock not cormose. Root-fibres often fasciculate. Stems often 
leafy. 
GENUS XVII—TOFIELDIA. duds. 
Involucre calyxlike, 3-cleft. Flowers perfect, not articulated to 
the pedicel. Perianth coloured, widely funnelshaped or subrotate; 
perianth leaves 6, free, sessile, more or less spreading, subpersistent. 
Stamens 6, inserted on the base of the perianth segments; filaments 
filiform; anthers affixed by the back and versatile. Styles 3, short; 
stigmas capitate. Capsule 3-cleft, 3-lobed, septicidally 3-valved. 
Seeds numerous, linear. 
Herbs with creeping slender rootstocks and equitant-ensiform 
falcate-recurved striate leaves which are mostly radical. Stem scape- 
like, terminated by a raceme of small white or greenish-white flowers 
in a spikelike raceme or spike. 
This genus was named in honour of a Mr. Tofield, a Yorkshire botanist and patron 
of the science. 
SPECIESI—TOFIELDIA PALUSTRIS. JZuds. 
Pirate MDXLIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCXX. Figs. 934, 935. 
T. borealis, Wahl. Fries, Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 65. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. 
ed. ii. p. 837. Reich. Ic. l.c. p. 1. 
Anthericum calyculatum, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 447. 
Stem glabrous, nearly leafless. Leaves 5- to 5-nerved. Pediccls 
with a 3-lobed bract at the base, but no bracteoles at the apex. 
Perianth leaves oblanceolate-oblong, yellowish-white tinged with 
yellowish-green on the back. 
In wet places and by the sides of rills on mountains. Rather local. 
In England it is confined to Teesdale, both on the Yorkshire and 
Durham sides of the stream. Not uncommon in the Scotch Highlands, 
extending north to Sutherland. 
England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 
Rootstock shortly creeping, producing tufts of distichous linear- 
ensiform subfalcate striated leaves, 1 to 3 inches long, much resem- 
