244 Sir J. E. Smith's Botanical History 



nified. A is the calyx with its flower-stalk and braclea. B, a 

 petal. C, Stamen. D, Gertnens and styles. 



4. T. cernua, racemo cylindraceo, floribus cernuis, bracteis brevis- 

 simis, pediinculis glabris longitudine corollae, caule aphyllo. 



Anthericum filamentis Igevibus, perianthio integenimo. Gme- 

 lin Mss. 



A. n. 39. Gmelin Sibir. v. i. 73. t. IS. /. 2 ; the synonyms al- 

 together erroneous. 



Native of mountainous woods, near the river Lena, in Siberia, 

 flowering about the end of July. Specimens in flower and 

 fruit, sent by Gmelin, are preserved in the Linnaean herba- 

 rium ; and we find with astonishment that when the first edi- 

 tion of the Species Plaiitarum Avas Written, they were con- 

 founded with the genuine Lapland Anthericum calyciilatumy 

 even by Linnaeus himself. 



The present most distinct species is as different from T. palus- 

 tris as two plants of one natural genus can well be. It is more 

 akin to our second and third species, with which it accords in ge- 

 neral aspect, but the roots are of a more creeping nature, and the 

 stem is taller, a foot or more in height, quite leafless, except at 

 the very base, cylindrical throughout, glaucous in the upper part. 

 Leaves narrow, near three inches long, with a small oblique point ; 

 their edges rough toward the extremity. Cluster erect, many- 

 flowered, from two to four inches in length, rather lax, but 

 scarcely interrupted. Partial flower-stalks nearly horizontal, slen- 

 der, angular when dry, quite smooth, about one eighth of an inch 

 long, and as the fruit advances becoming still longer. Bracteas 

 solitary at the base of each stalk, and about a quarter as long, 

 ovate, keeled, a little recufVed. Flowers white, drooping, about 

 twice the siae of Convallaria bifolia. Calyx dilated, with three 



shallow, 



