of the Genus Tofiehliu. 243 



three-deft. Petals rather more yellowish, scarcely so long as the 

 staraens. They are represented too narrow and acute in M. Re- 

 doute's figure. Ccfps«/es combined almost all the way up, making 

 together a roundish-elliptical three-lobed figure, larger than a cori- 

 ander seed, of a light brown, transversely corrugated, their points 

 widely spreading, crowned with the short thick styles, and capitate 

 stigmas. The seeds are extremely numerous. The wooden cut of the 

 old authors above cited, is quite as expressive as the copper-plate 

 of Seguier, commended by Villars, and copied by Lamarck. 



S. T. stenopetala, racemo cylindraceo, bracteis calycem superan- 



tibus, caule glabro diphyllo, petalis lanceolatis acutis. 

 Gathered by Kalm in North America, but in what part we are 



unable to determine. Three of his specimens are preserved in 



the Linna;axi herbarium. 



This, which Linnaeus did not distinguish from his Anthericum 

 calyculatum, is most akin to our Tqfieldia alpina, with which it 

 accords in size and habit, as well as in bearing two, sometimes 

 three, alternate distant leaves on the stem. 'I'he inflorescence is a 

 dense obtuse cluster, one inch and a half long, interrupted in the 

 lower part. The bracieas however aflbrd a clear specific difference, 

 being lanceolate, and extending not only to the summit of the short 

 and thick partial tlower-stalks, but often reaching much beyond 

 the calyx, which latter is very broad and shallow, unequally three- 

 cleft, sometimes with a ^ew supernumerary teeth or notches. The 

 petals are very diflf'erent in shape from both the preceding species, 

 being lanceolate and acute. Their colour seems a greenish white. 

 Anthers pointed. Germens ovato-lanceolate. Styles twice as long 

 ds the last. 



Tab. \'IIf . Fig. 1 represents a dried specimen of T. stenopetala^ 

 ■of the natural size, with the separate parts of fructification mag- 



2 I 2 nified. 



