of the Genus Tujieldia. 245 



sliallow,obtuse segments. Petals obovate, obtuse, slightly pointed, 

 concave, the length of the flower-stalks, and keeping pace with 

 them in their subsequent elongation, when the petals become very 

 narrow at the base. Stamens shorter than the corolla ; the anthem, 

 according to Gnielin, yellow. Germens and styles much like 

 T. stenopetala. Capsules quite pendulous, shorter than the per- 

 manent corolla, obovate, very thin and brittle, combined nearly 

 all the way up, but easily separated, each crowned with a straight 

 spreading style, and capitate stigma. Seeds very numerous, small, 

 slender, prismatic. 



Gmelin mentions, on the authority of Steller, a variety with 

 leaves upon the stem, wiiich we should suspect to be a diffcrrent 

 species ; but without seeing specimens, we can determine nothing 

 respecting this point. ^ 



5. T. puhtns, racemo cylindraceo interrupto, pedunculis fascicu- 

 latis scabris longiludine corolla;, 

 T. pubens. Dry and. in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. ii. 325. 

 T. pubescens. Fursh Amer. Sept. 246. 

 Narthecium pubens. Michaux Boreali-Jmer. v. i. 209. 

 Melanthium racemosum. JValt. Carol. 126. 

 i\nthericum filamentis laevibus, perianthio trifido. Lin?i. Hort. 



Cliff. 140. Gran. Virg. ed. i. 39- 

 A. foliis ensiformibus, perianthiis trilobis, fdamentis glabris. 



Gron. Virg. ed. ii. 51. 

 Asphodelus minor albus. Tluk. Mant. 29. Phyt. t. 342. /. 3. 

 Native of moist meadows, swamps, and mossy boggy woods, ia 

 Virginia and Carolina, flowering in July. Clayton, Pursh. 

 Having no specimen of this, I postpone its description, till I 

 can examine the Banksian herbarium. It makes the last of five 

 species, which have been confounded together under the Lin- 

 neean Anlhericum calyculatum. 



6. T. slu' 



