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oblong-oblanceolate, equalling the oblong-ovate capsule: seeds linear. 
— T. glaberrima, MacBride. N. and 8. Carolina; “ Arkansas.” 
Etrntrs, at 
* * Stem and in orescence pubescent : pedicels mostly fascicled : seeds more 
or less caudate. — § Trranrua, Nutt. 
4, T. GLurrosa, Willd. Glutinous-pubescent: stem slender, 4 to 
1} feet high: leaves 2 or 3 lines broad: raceme short (4 to 2 inches) : 
pedicels (2 lines long in fruit) bearing the scarcely lobed involucre 
near the flower: perianth not becoming rigid: capsule thin and light- 
colored, oblong, 2} lines long, shortly beaked: seeds minute, with close 
brownish testa, and a contorted tail at each end.— Smith, Trans. 
inne poe. 12. 246;.t. 8, 1. 2; Hook. Fl. Bor-Ams: 2.179, t. 191. 
Narthecium, Michx. Alaska to Oregon, Wyoming and Canada (to 
New Brunswick), and in the Alleghanies to North Carolina. 
3. T. pUBENS, Pers. Pubescence more scabrous: stem 1 to 3 feet 
high: perianth becoming rigid about the firm dark-colored ovate aud 
long-beaked capsule: seeds larger (3 line long), with a short white 
appendage at each end.— Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 8859. Melanthium 
racemosum, Walt. MM. aspericaule, Poir. Narthecium pubens, Michx. 
Narthecium (?) seabrum, Raf. New Jersey to Florida and Alabama. 
6. T. OCCIDENTALIS. Stem (1 to 2 feet high) and pedicels below 
the involucres viscid-pubescent: raceme an inch long, and pedicels 
becoming 3 to 5 lines long: involucre 3-lobed nearly to the middle, 
often reddish: perianth 2} or 3 lines long: capsule thin, obovate, 
3 or 4 lines long, long-beaked: seeds angular-ovate, with loose white 
spongy testa, and a slender tail at the outer end nearly as long as the 
body. — N. California (Mendocino County, n. 1022, Kell. & Harf.) to 
Washington Territory (Cascade Mountains, Lyall). 
48. PLEEA, Michx. 
1. P. TenurroxiaA, Michx. Glabrous: stem a foot or two high: 
leaves perennial, rather rigid, 1 to 1} lines wide, the cauline (2 or 3) 
sheathing: raceme about 6-flowered, the pedicels (an inch long or 
more) about equalling the conspicuous leafy bracts : perianth-segments 
6 lines long, twice longer than the stamens and exceeding the cap- 
sule: seeds a line long, shorter than the contorted tail. — Flora, 1. 
245, t. 25; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1956. North Carolina to Florida. 
49. NARTHECIUM, Moehr. 
1. N. Americanum, Ker. Stem a foot high or more: leaves a line 
wide, 7—9-nerved: raceme dense, an inch or two long: perianth- 
