BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION. 59 



WILD-THRIFT. 



Mesembryanthemuni aquilaterale. Haworth. 



Perennial, with stout prostrate or ascending stems, and short ascending flowering 

 branches, leaves very fleshy, opposite and clasping, linear, acutely triangular, one to three 

 inches long, smooth ; flowers solitary, red pedicellated or nearly sessile, about one and 

 one-half inches in diameter ; calyx tube turbinate, half an inch long or more, angled or 

 terete ; the larger lobes often as long ; stigmas six to ten (Brewer & Watson). 



CLUSTER LILY. 

 Broditea capitata. Benth. 



Leaves a foot long or more, two to ten lines wide, carinate, usually glaucous ; scape 

 a foot or two high, sometimes much shorter than the leaves ; flowers few to many, nearly 

 sessile or on pedicels one to six lines long; perianth rather broadly funnel-form, six to ten 

 lines long, from blue to purple or white ; inner anthers nearly sessile, linear, two lines 

 long, slightly shorter than the oblong lanceolate appendages ; the outer smaller, on 

 short, naked filaments broadly dilated at the base ; capsule ovate, sessile, three lines 

 long; beaked by the slender style nearly as long; seeds several in each cell, two lines 

 long (Brewer & \Vatson). 



VIOLET. 



Viola pcdunculata. Torrey and Gray. 



Nearly glabrous, or somewhat puberulent, the ascending stems two to six inches 

 high, from a slender decumbent or procumbent base ; leaves rhombic-cordate, with base 

 usually truncate or abruptly cuneate, obtuse, one-half to one and one half inches long, 

 often small, coarsely crenate ; stipules foliaceous., narrowly lanceolate, entire or gashed ; 

 peduncles much exceeding the leaves ; flowers showy, deep yellow; sepals oblong-lanceo- 

 late, obtuse or acute ; petals six to nine lines long, the upper more or less tinged with 

 brown, on the outside, the others veined with purple, lateral petals bearded ; capsule 

 oblong-ovate, five to six lines long, glabrous (Brewer & Watson). 



