



BUNCH-FLOWER FAMILY. 



i. Abama Americana (Ker.) Morong. 



American Bog-asphodel. (Fig. 969.) 

 Xar/lifcitim America num Ker, Bot. Mag. pi. 7505. |g|. 

 \artlifciitm ossifragum var. Americanum A. (Iray, Man 



K<1. 5. 536- 1^67. 

 Abama Americana Morong, Mem. Torr. Club ioa 



1894- 



Glabrous, stems wiry, stiff, erect, io'-i8' tall. Basal 

 leaves 3 / -8 / long, \" wide or less, finely 7-9-nerved; 

 lower stem leaves ^'-2' long, the upper much smaller; 

 raceme i'-2' long, dense; perianth-segments narrowly 

 linear, 2 // ~3 // long, slightly exceeding the stamens; 

 filaments white-woolly; pedicels ascending, 3 // -4 / ' 

 long in fruit; capsule about 5" long, i" in diameter at 

 the middle, erect, nearly twice as long as the perianth- 

 segments, tapering to a subulate beak; seeds, including 

 the appendages, 3 // -4 // long. 



In pine barren swamps, southern New Jersey. June- 

 Sept. 



3. XEROPHYLLUM Michx. Fl. Kor. Am. i .MO. 1803. 



Tall perennial herbs, with thick short woody rootstocks. simple erect lea/y 

 leaves narrowly linear, rough-margined, the upper ones shorter than the lower. 

 very numerous, medium-sized, white, in a large dense terminal raceme, the lower* 

 expanding. Perianth withering-persistent, its segments oblong or ovate. 5 7-nerred. spread- 

 ing, glandless. Stamens 6, rather shorter than the perianth segment*; filaments sabolate. 

 glabrous; anthers oblong. Ovary sessile, 3-groovcd; styles 3, filiform, rrflcxed or ftcanrod, 

 stigmatic along the inner side; ovules only 2-4 in each cell. Capsule oroid. 3-grooved. loc- 

 ulicidally and sometimes also septicidally dehiscent. Seeds 5, oblong, not at all appendaged. 

 or only minutel}- so. [Greek, signifying a dry leaf.] 



Three species, the following of the southeastern United States, the others of resUra America 



i. Xerophyllum asphodeloidcs 



Xutt. Tnrke>-U-.ii'l. I 



1 It-ion ias a^f I -Id. S. 485. IT** 



Viyllum s,-. 

 1803. 

 Xerophyllum asf 



Stem stout, becoming stiff, J S-5 tall, densely 

 leafy below and at the base, sparsely leafy above. 

 Leaves very narrowly linear, slightly dilated at tbe 

 base, the lower 6'-i8' long, i" wide or leas, except 

 at the broader base, the upper socceaainly sbortar 

 and narrower; flowering raceme $'-V long. . 

 in diameter, its summit conic; flowering pedk<l> 

 spreading, filiform. 9"-l8" long, in fruit r 

 perianth-segments ovate-oblong, obtnse. abo 

 long; styles rather longer than the OSJTT; capon la 

 ellipsoid, obtuse. 2" long. i"-iS" >n dil 

 seeds mostly 2 in each cell. 



In dry pine bai- 

 Te!iiu-<ei- mid (icorgia. M.> 

 ft. in North Carolina. 



4. HELONIAS L. Sp. PI. 342- '753- 



A perennial glabrous bog herb, with a stout rootstock, thick fibroa 

 lanceolate persistent leaves and rather large perfect purple flowers, n 



K ., . i. ^ &M * d Mharltntr ttrkAt^HBBA. 



of an erect hollow bracted scape. Perianth-segments spreading, spat 

 Stamens 6, hypogynous, longer than the perianth-segments; filament 

 Ovarv ovoid, 3 -grooved, 3-celled, slightly 3-lobed, many-m-uled; st 

 the inner side, deciduous. Capsule obovoid, deeply 3 

 dehiscent above. Seeds numerous, linear, white-appendaged 

 Greek, in allusion to its growth in swamps.] 

 A monotypic genus of eastern North America. 



