LILIACEAE LILY FAMILY 
FALSE ASPHODEL 
Tofieldia glutinosa (Michx.) Pers. 
The False Asphodel is commonly found only in bogs through- 
out a comparatively narrow range, Newfoundland and Maine 
to Minnesota and Illinois, and in this state will be found probably 
only in the bogs and moorlands of Lake 
county. It is thus not a plant met ordinarily, | 
but one for which a search must be made. 
It is a perennial herb with a stem 6-20 
inches tall, very hairy, and sticky because of 
its numerous black glands. There are usually 
2-4 leaves near the base and the rest are 
strictly basal. Their blades are flat and narrow, 
one-quarter inch wide and 2-7 inches long. 
The flowers, more or less clustered in 
threes, appear from June to August in a 
terminal raceme which is 1-2 inches long in 
flower and longer in fruit. The pedicels are 
covered with glands like those of the stem. 
The 6 very thin and greenish white segments 
of the perianth remain on the maturing fruit. 
There are 6 stamens with slender filaments. 
The 3-celled capsule is oblong and about 
twice as long as the perianth. It contains 
many seeds, each of which has a slender 
taillike appendage at either end. 
And nearer to the river’s trembling edge 
There grew broad flag flowers, purple 
prankt with white, 
And starry river buds among the sedge, 
And floating water lilies, broad and 
bright, 
Which lit the oak that overhung the hedge 
With moonlight beams of their own 
watery light; 
And bulrushes, and reeds of such deep green 
As soothed the dazzled eye with sober sheen. 
The Question—Percy ByssHE SHELLEY 
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