470 BROMKLIACE^E. (PINE-APPLE FAMILY.) 



anthers oblong. Style subulate, erect, persistent and separable : stigma entire. 

 Capsule ovate, coriaceous, 3-ribbed and 3-furrowed. Seeds anatropous, few, 

 linear-oblong, curved, fixed at the base. 



1. L. aurea, Ker. Stem erect, finely pubescent above, mostly simple ; 

 lowest leaves linear-sword-shaped, acute, equitant, the others diminishing up- 

 ward, remote ; flowers small, yellow within, in close or open corymbose woollv 

 racemes. (Conostylis Americana, Pursh.) Wet pine barrens, Florida, and 

 northward. July. Stem 2 high, creeping at the base. Leaves 4' - 12' long, 

 Flowers 3" long, nodding in the bud. 



3. ALETRIS, L. STAR-GRASS. 



Perianth tubular, scurfy and viscid without, smooth within, 6-cleft, the tube 

 adnate to the base of the ovary. Stamens 6, very short, included : anthers 

 sagittate. Style subulate, erect, persistent, and separable : stigmas 3. Capsule 

 ovate, coriaceous. Seeds ovate, ribbed, fixed at the base. Perennial herbs, 

 with slender scape-like linear-bracted stems, bearing at the base a cluster of flat 

 spreading leaves, and at the summit numerous small white or yellow flowers in a 

 spiked raceme. 



1 . A. farinosa, L. Leaves lanceolate, very acute, sessile ; spike short 

 (3' -12'), rigid; flowers approximate or crowded; perianth white or yellow, 

 nearly sessile, cylindrical, with narrow and spreading lobes ; style slender, sub- 

 ulate, 3-cleft ; capsule ovate-lanceolate, longer than the perianth. Pine-barren 

 swamps, Florida to North Carolina. May and June. Scape 2 -3 high. 

 Leaves 3' -6' long. Perianth 4" long. 



2. A. aurea, Walt. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, very acute, narrowed at the 

 base; raceme elongated (1- 2), slender; flowers scattered; perianth white or 

 yellow, short-stalked, globose-ovate, with broad and connivent lobes ; style short, 

 somewhat conical, obscurely 3-cleft ; capsule ovate, as long as the perianth. 

 Low sandy soil, Florida to North Carolina. May and June. Scape 2 -3 

 high. Leaves 2' - 4' long. Perianth 2" - 3" long. 



ORDER 146. BROMELIACE^E. (PINE-APPLE FAMILY.) 



Chiefly scurfy epiphytes, with fibrous roots, rigid leaves, and regular 

 conspicuously bracted mostly spiked flowers. Perianth free, or more or 

 less adnate to the 3-celled ovary, 6-parted, imbricated, the three outer 

 divisions calyx-like. Stamens G . anthers 2-celled, introrse. Ovules nu- 

 merous, anatropous, erect or pendulous. Placentae central. Style single : 

 stigmas 3. Fruit berry-like, or 3-celled, 3-valved capsule. Seeds stalked. 

 Embryo small, at the base of copious mealy albumen. 



1. TILLANDSIA, L. LONG Moss. AIR-PLANT. 



Sepals rigid. Petals imbricated and tube-like below, spreading above. Sta- 

 mens filiform, hypogynous. Ovary free. Style slender. Capsule linear or 



