BROMELIACE.*:. (PINE-AI'PLK FAMILY.) 511 



purple inside, flattish laterally, convex above; sterile staincn lanceolate. — 

 Bogs, N. Y. and Pcuu. to Minn., Mo., and Ky. ; rare. May, Jnne. 



3. C. parvifl6ruin, Salish. (Smaller Yellow L.) Stem 1-2° high 

 leaves oval, jxdnted; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; lip flattish from abm^e, 

 bright yellow (1' long or less); sterile stamen triangular. — Bogs and low 

 woods, Newf. to Ga., west to Minn, and E. Kan. May, June. — Flowers fra- 

 grant; sepals and petals more brown -purple than in the next, into wliich it 

 seems to pass. 



4. C. pub6scens, Willd. (Lauoer Yellow L.) Stem 2° high, pubes- 

 cent, as are the broadly oval acute leaves; sepals eloncjated-lanceolate ; lipjlat- 

 tened laterallfi, very convex and gibbous above, 1^-2' long, pale yeilow. — 

 Bogs and low woods ; same range as the last. 



^_ H_ Sepals and petals plane, rounded, white, not lonqcr than the lip. 



5. C. spectabile, Salisb. (Showy L.) Downy, 2° high ; leaves ovate, 

 pointed ; sepals round-ovate or orbicular, rather longer than the oblong petals ; 

 lip much inflated, white, pink-purple in front (1^' long) ; sterile stamen heart- 

 ovate. — Peat-bogs, Maine and \V. New Eng. to Minn, and Mo., and south in 

 the mountains to N. C. July. — The most beautiful of the genus. 



» * Scape naked, 2-leaved at base, \-flowered ; sepals and petals greenish, 

 shorter than the drooping lip, which has a closed flssure down its whole 

 length in front. 



6. C. acaule, Ait. (Stemless L.) Downy; leaves oblong; scapes- 12' 

 high, with a green bract at top ; sepals oblong-lanceolate, pointed, nearly as 

 long as the linear petals; lip obovoid or oblong, rose-purple (rarely white), 

 nearly 2' long, veiny ; sterile stamen rhomboid. — Dry or moist woods; Newf. 

 to N. C, west to N. Ind., Mich., and Minn. May, June. 



Order 111. BKOMELIACE^E. (Pine-apple Family.) 



Herhs [or scarcely woody plants, nearly all tropical), the greater part epi- 

 phytes, icith persistent dry or fleshy and channelled crowded leaces, sheath- 

 ing at the base, usualbj covered iviih scurf; 6-androus ; the 6-cleft perianth 

 adherent to the ovary in the Pine-apple, etc., or free from it in 



1. TILLANDSIA, L. Long Moss. 



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

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

 al)ove, lanceolate. Stamens 6, hypogynous! or the alternate ones cohering 

 with the base of the petals ; anthers introrse. Ovary free ; style thread-shaped ; 

 stigmas 3. Capsule cartilaginous, 3-celled, locnlicidally 3-valved ; the valves 

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

 anatropous, club-shaped, pointed, raised on a long hairy-tufted stalk, like a 

 coma. P^mbryo small, at the base of copious albumen. — Scurfy-leaved epi- 

 phytes. (Named for Prof Tillands of Abo.) 



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

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

 1-flowered; flower yellow. — East Shore, Va., south to Fla., and westward; 

 growing on the branches of trees, forming long hanging tufts. 



