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purple inside, flattish laterally, convex above ; sterile stamen lanceolate. 

 Bogs, N. Y. and Penn. to Minn., Mo., and Ky. ; rare. May, June. 



3. C. parvifldrum, Salisb. (SMALLER YELLOW L.) Stem 1-2 high 

 leaves oval, pointed ; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; Up flattish from above, 

 bright yellow (V 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 which it 

 seems to pass. 



4. C. pub^scens, Willd. (LARGER YELLOW L.) Stem 2 high, pubes- 

 cent, as are the broadly oval acute leaves; sepals elongated-lanceolate; lip flat- 

 tened laterally, very convex and gibbous above, H-2' long, pale yellow. 

 Bogs and low woods ; same range as the last. 



- H- Sepals and petals plane, rounded, white, not longer 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 (!' long) ; sterile stamen heart- 

 ovate. Peat-bogs, Maine and W. 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, l-flowered ; sepals and petals greenish, 

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

 length in front. 



6. C. acatlle, Ait. (STEMLESS L.) Downy; leaves oblong; scape 8- 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^. (PINE-APPLE FAMILY) 



Herbs (or scarcely woody plants, nearly all tropical), the greater part epi- 

 phytes, with persistent dry or fleshy and channelled crowded leaves, sheath- 

 ing at the base, usually covered with scurf; Q-androus ; the 6-clef t 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; allconnivent below into a tube, spreading 

 above, 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, loculicidally 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. Embryo 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-shaped, branching, pendulous ; leaves thread-shaped ; peduncle short, 

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

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



