132 North American Species of Tillandsia. 



pubescentibus, setaceo-subulatis, semi-teretibus, erectis, basi 

 concaviusculis : caule quadruuciali, rubro, foliorum diminu- 

 tione squamoso : floribus spicatis spica 3 — 4 — flora bracteis 

 rubris imbricata ; petalis caeruleis, equitantibus ita ut tubum 

 formant medio dilatatum, bracteis longiorem,margineque apice 

 recurva, staminibus caeruleis antheris flavis. 



Inhabits East Florida ; resembles the last, but is altogether 

 smaller, and the leaves have a distinct tinge of red i it grows 

 in very large roundish clusters on the trunks of trees. 



6. Tillandsia recurvata. 



Foliis caule brevioribus, teretibus, curvatis, setaceo-subu- 

 latis, pruinosis, cinereis,leproso-pubescentibus, anguste canali- 

 culars, distichis ; caule semipedali, superne nudo, 1 — 2 — 

 floro, floribus sessilibus ; corolla calyce longiore. 



Inhabits on the trunks of trees in East Florida : rare : ap- 

 pears to connect the species of this section of Tillandsia with 

 the T. usneoides. It has never been found in Georgia, and 

 will not stand the winter of that country : on what authority 

 then Pursh states it to be found on the Alatamaha river, I 

 cannot imagine ; he never saw it growing there himself, for 

 he never was in Georgia. 



7. Tillandsia usneoides. 



Cinerea, pruinosa, leproso-pubescens, caule diffuso, fili- 

 formi, pendulo, ramoso, dichotomo, flexuoso aut etiani spira- 

 liter torto: foliis subulato-filiformibus, semiteretibus, tortis: 

 floribus terminalibus, solitariis, sessilibus ; calyce glabro 

 rufescente, tripartito, laciniis subulatis, acutissimis, erectis ; 

 corolla tripetala, pallide viridi, petalis lato-linearibus, apice 

 rotundatis, inferne equitantibus, ita ut tubutn formant calycem 

 aequantem, lamina expansa, plana, staminibus tubo brevioribus. 



Inhabits on every kind of tree : is found as far north as 

 Cape Henry in Virginia. Of the various uses of this valu- 

 able plant, both economical and medical, it would be out of 

 place here to say any thing ; they are sufficiently well known. 



