458 BEOMELIACEiE. (PINE-APPLE FAMILY.) 



side ; the lobes naked only towards the tip, each clothed with a woolly tuft 

 towards the base (whence the name, from Xocpeioi/, a small crest). 



1. ]L. aui'ca, Ker. (Conostylis Americana, Pursh.) — Boggy pine bar- 

 rens, New Jersey to Virginia, and southward. June- Aug. 



3. AI^ETISSS, L. Colic-root. Star-grass. 



Perianth cylindrical, not woolly, but wrinkled and roughened outside by 

 thickly-set points, which look like scurfy mealiness, the tube cohering below 

 with the base only of the ovary, 6-cleft at the summit. Stamens 6, inserted at 

 the base of the lobes : filaments and anthers short, included. Style awl-shaped, 

 3-cleft at the apex : stigmas minutely 2-lobed. Pod ovate, enclosed in the 

 roughened perianth ; the dehiscence, seeds, &c. nearly as in Lophiola. — Peren 

 nial and smooth stemless herbs, very bitter, with fibrous roots, and a spreading 

 cluster of thin and flat lanceolate leaves ; the small flowers in a wand-like spiked 

 raceme, terminating a naked slender scape (2° -3° high). Bracts awl-shaped, 

 minute. ('AXerpt'y, a female slave who grinds corn; the name applied to 

 these plants, in allusion to the apparent mealiness dusted over the blossoms.) 



1. A. fariadsa, L. Flowers oblong-tubular, white; lobes lanceolate- 

 oblong. — Grassy or sandy woods ; common, especially southward. July, Aug. 



2. A. aurea, Walt. Flowers bell-shaped, yellow (fewer and shorter) ; 

 lobes short-ovate. — Barrens, &c, N. Jersey to Virginia, and southward. 



Order 122. BROMELIACE^. (Pine- Apple Family.) 



Herbs (or scarcely woody plants, nearly all tropical), the greater part epi- 

 phytes, with persistent dry or fleshy and channelled croicded leaves, sheathing 

 at the base, usually cocered with scurf; 6-androus ,' the 6-cleft perianth ad- 

 herent to the ovary in the Pine-apple, &c., or free from it in our only rep- 

 resentative, viz. 



1. TILLANDSIA, L. Long Moss. 



Perianth plainly double, 6-parted ; the 3 outer divisions (sepals) membrana- 

 ceous; the 3 inner (petals) colored; all convolute below into a tube, spreading 

 above, lanceolate. Stamens 6, hypogynous ! or the alternate ones cohering with 

 the base of the petals : anthers introrse. Ovary free : style thread-shaped : stig- 

 mas 3. Pod cartilaginous, 3-celled, locnlicidally 3-valved ; the valves splitting 

 into an inner and an outer layer. Seeds several or many in each cell, anatro- 

 pous, club-shaped, pointed, raised on a long hairy-tufted stalk, like a coma. 

 Embryo small, at the base of copious albumen. — Scurfy-leaved epiphytes, 

 (Named for Prof. Tillands of Abo.) 



1. T. usiieoides, L. (Common Long Moss or Black Moss.) Stems 

 thread-shaped, branching, pendulous ; leaves thread-shaped; peduncle short, 1- 

 flowered. — Dismal Swamp, Virginia, and southward ; growing on the branches 

 of trees, forming long hanging tufts. A characteristic plant of the Southern 

 States, and barely coming within the limits of this work. 



