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123. FLY-POISON. CHROSPERMA. 



A bulbous herb of sandy woods. Leaves nearly all basal, 

 blunt, and long. Flowers white, in a terminal raceme, the 

 lower expanding first. Petals blunt. Fruit a deeply 3-lobed, 

 and slender-tipped pod. [Melanthaccae.) 

 Fly-poison or Crow-poison. Chrosperma muscaetoxictim. 

 (Aniianthiuni muscaetoxictim.) From 1^-4 ft. high. Leaves 

 y2-i in. wide, a little shorter than the stem, those on 

 the upper part of the stem decidedly smaller. Flower clus- 

 ter 23^-5 in. long, the stalks of the individual flowers ascend- 

 ing. Pod about 54 i"- ii^i diameter. June. Moist sandy places. 

 Long Island and Penn. to Fla. west to Mo. and Ark. Fig. 

 123. 



124. ANTICLEA. 



Bulbous, leafy-stemmed herbs with terminal flower- 

 clusters. Flower greenish-yellow. Fruit a 3-celled pod, its 

 lobes tipped. (Melanthaccae.) 



Anticlea elegans. (Zygadenus chloranthus.) No common 

 name. From >4-3 ft. tall. Leaves %-3/2 in. wide, keeled, 

 the basal nearly i ft. long, the upper shorter. Flower cluster 

 mostly a simple raceme, very rarely branched, often i ft. 

 long. Flowers nearly i in. across. Pod about i in. long. July. 

 New Brunswick to N. Y., and westward, mostly in moun- 

 tains. Fig. 124. 



125. Flower cluster decidedly and conspicuously branched. 

 (Note : The first preceding sometimes has a branched flower clus- 

 ter.) 

 Individual flower i>^ in. long or more . . Adam's Needle, no. 126 

 Individual flower less than i in. long or wide. 



Leaves scarcely % in. wide Oceanorus no. 127 



Leaves at least J/2 in. wide 

 Flowers greenish-yellow; petals blunt Bunch-flower no. 128 



Flowers white or greenish ; petals acute-tipped 



Stenanthium no, 129 



