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oilier, a little attenuated at the base, pubescent, red, shorter than 

 the germ. The stigma blunt, of a yellowish red colour, pubescent 

 at the edge. Capsule oval, smooth, transversely nerved, compressed, 

 with two rims along the back. The seeds are orbiculate. Jt flowers 

 in May. 



In the third the leaves are a foot long and more, half an inch 

 broad at the base. The scape half a foot high, scarcely a line in 

 diameter. The raceme six inches in length, or even longer. The 

 peduncles an inch and a half long. The bractea^ are green, with 

 clear white edges, half an inch long, quickly withering. The flow- 

 ers yellow. The petals less than an inch in length; the outer ones 

 thickened at the tip ; the inner having a white, inflcx, kidney- 

 shaped gland. Barren filaments, linear, with a filiform inflex tip, 

 and no anthera?. The style obversely pyramidal, the length of the 

 germ, covered with glandulous scales. The stigma pyramidal, pro- 

 minent between the inner converging petals. It flowers in May and 

 June. 



The fourth species has the leaves linear-subulate, deeply chan- 

 nelled, two feet long and upAvards, scarcely half an inch wide at 

 the base. The scape a little shorter than the leaves, nnd not so 

 thick as a goose quill. The raceme close, half a foot in length. The 

 peduncles spreading, a little more than an inch in length. The 

 bracteee are almost the length of the peduncle. The flowers yellow. 

 Outer petals oblong, thickened at the tip, above an inch in length; 

 the inner ones oval, a little shorter than the outer ones. Barren fila- 

 ments, somewhat shorter than the fertile ones, convex without, chan- 

 nelled within: the an theme sagittate and effete. The style. prism- 

 shaped, the length of the germ, and terminated by a stigma from the 

 angles of the style rounded at the' tip. ' It flowers in May. 



In the fifth the root-leaves are few, linear-filiform, upright at bot- 

 tom, then spiral, and when the plant is more mature, flexuose, 

 villose-scabrous, shorter than the scape, which is simple, filiform, 

 flexuose, nodding at the top, streaked, villose-scabrous, of a finger's 

 length, seldom a span long after flowering, one-flowered, seldom 



