246 Sir J. E. Smith's Botanical Hislory 



6. T. glutinosa, racemo ovato coarctato, pedunculis glutinosis 

 scabris lonaitudine corollae, antheris orbiculatis exsevtis. 

 T. glutinosa. Piirsh Amer. Sept. 246. 

 Narthecium glutinosum. Michaux Boreali-Amer, v. i. 210. 



Native of North America, from Quebec to lake Mistassins, ac- 

 cording to Michaux. Our specimen was gathered by Mr. Men- 

 zies, on the west coast of North America, and is the same with 

 what Mr. Pursh saw in the Banksian herbarium. We have no 

 reason to suspect the plant of Michaux to be different. He 

 says it has " the habit of the Linnaean Anlhericum ossifragiim," 

 and that " the spike consists of a few alternate fasciculi ; the 

 capsule is ovate, twice as long as the calyx." By calyx, he 

 means corolla, and by spica, racemus, as is evident from the rest 

 of his account. Mr. Pursh therefore is inaccurate in copying 

 his phraseology, which contradicts his own generic character 

 of To/ieldia. 



Mr. Menzies's specimen has a thick tuberous horizontal root, 

 with long simple brown fibres, being undoubtedly perennial, like 

 the rest of the genus. Stem erect, a foot high, angular, at least 

 when dry, roughish all over with short glandular hairs; more 

 densely hairy for the space of two inches from the top, where it 

 bears a small leafy bractca, possibly not constant. Leaves rather 

 few, all radical, except one or two on the very lowest part of the 

 stem, which do not rise above the others ; they are all erect, four 

 or five inches long, narrow, ribbed, bright green, smooth, except 

 a slight roughness towards the point. Cluster scarcely an inch 

 in length, ovate, obtuse, of twelve or fourteen flowers, on hairy 

 stalks, sometimes in pairs, hardly a quarter of an inch long, erect 

 or slightly spreading, having at the base one or two membranous 

 acute bracteas, one-third their own length. Calyx not deeply 

 lobed. Petals yellowish, obovate, about as long as the flower- 



stalks. 



