34 ABALON. 



Varieties and deviations 1. Pumttum, 6 or 8 

 inches, leaves narrow, linear above. Mts Alle- 

 ghany, rare. 



2. Sylvaticum, large, bipedal, lower leaves 

 broader and thick, cuneate nearly obtuse: 

 crowded on the stem. In woods. 



3. Serpentarium, raceme elongate flexuose 

 like a Snake. 



4. Spicatum, flowers nearly sessile forming 

 a long spike, the pistillate flowers remote 

 Kentucky .... 



5. Obotatum, radical leaves petiolate obovate 

 nervose, obtuse, stem leaves remote cuneate 

 few obtuse. Alabama and Florida : perhaps a 

 species, fertile flowers very remote. 



Flowers white, the pistillate greenish not so 

 crowded found from Maine to Missouri and 

 Floridas, in meadows, glades and woods. 

 Root tuberose premorse, medical, see my med- 

 ical flora. 



Figures. Autikon Raf. 1 to 5. 



ABAMA of Adanson. His good Genus 

 was wrongly named Tofielda by Hudson ; but 

 some American Sp. united to it, being distinct, 

 I called them Conradia or Leptilix in Neog. 

 1825. Nuttal has named another Genus Con- 

 radia in 1834. I therefore restore the Aba- 

 ma for our Tofieldas and thus reform the 

 characters. 



ABAMA. Calix small 3dentate. Corolla 6- 

 parted obtuse alternate longer. Stamens Gfili- 

 form on the corolla and opposite. Pistil one 

 conical 3angular. 3 Styles spreading short, 

 stigmas capitate. One capsule Scelled, 3val- 

 ved, valves bifid above, cells with 2 or more 

 seeds Habit leaves ensiform, flowers white 

 racemose, peduncles commonly triflore. Con- 



