BUNCH-FLOWER FAMILY 

 i. Chrosperma muscaetoxicum (Walt.) Kunt/,-. 



Mfhinthinni muscaetoxicum Walt. Fl. Car. us. 



1788. 



Amianthium muscaetoxicum A. Gray, Ann. Lye. 

 N. V. 4: 122. 1837. 



Chrosperma muscaetovicnm Kunze, Rev. Gen. 



I'l. 708. 1891. 



Bulb i^ / -2 / long, nearly i' in diameter. 

 Stem i#-4 tall. Basal leaves 2"- 15" wide, 

 shorter than the stem, the upper few and dis- 

 tant, bract-like; raceme at first ovoid-conic, be- 

 coming cylindric, 2 '-5' long; pedicels ascend- 

 ing, 4 // -io // long; bractlets ovate, i"-2"long; 

 sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, 2 // -3 // long; fila- 

 ments filiform, about equalling the sepals; 

 capsule 2 // -3 // in diameter above the middle, 

 scarcely as long; seeds about i^ //r long. 



In dry sandy woods, Long Island and eastern 

 Pennsylvania to Florida. Tennessee and Arkansas 

 Ascends to 4000 ft. in Virginia and to 2100 ft. in 

 Pennsylvania. May-July. 



7. STENANTHIUM Kunth, Kmnn. 4: 189. i 



Erect glabrous bulbous herbs, with leafy stems and small white or greenish, polygamotw 

 flowers in an ample terminal panicle. Leaves narrowly linear, k nanth-wgmcnU 



narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, glandless, spreading, pcrsisu-nt, adnatr t< the bate of the 

 ovary. Stamens shorter than the perianth-segments, inserted on their bases; anthers email. 

 cordate or reniform. Ovary ovoid. Capsule ovoid-oblong, 3-lobed, finally dehiscent to the 

 base, the lobes with short slightly divergent beaks. Seeds about 4 in each cavity, oblong. 

 angled, somewhat flattened. [Greek, in allusion to the narrow perianth-segments.] 



The genus comprises only the two following specie--. 



Leaves 2" -3" wide; capsule reflexed. V gramimemm 



Leaves 3"-io" wide; capsule erect. robmtlttm. 



i. Stenanthium gramineum (Ker) Morong. Grass-U-avitl Su-nanthiuui. 



(Fig. 974. ) 



Helonias qraminta Kcv, Bot Mag. pi. i$99~ 



1813. 

 I't-i atntm aniisti/olinm Puih, Fl. Am. Sept. 



242. 1814. 

 Stenantliium ,: < i Kunlh, Km: 



190. 1843. 

 Stfiianlliinm frawintttm Moranc, Mem. Torr. 



Club, 5: no. 1894. 



Stem sk-iuU-r, 3-4 tall. Leaves gnm- 

 like, some of tlu-m often l long or more, 

 2^-3"' wide, the upper, reduced to anal! 

 linear lanceolate bracts subtending ibe 

 branches of the panicle; panicle open, im- 

 ple or soim-what o.ini*'und. i-a c long, it* 

 bram-lu-s nearly filiform, iott, 



snn-a.liiiK T dnH.pinx'; bract- 

 equalling or longer than the pediceU; flower* 

 4"-6" broad; perianth-aegmento linear lan- 

 ceolate; capsule ovoid -ohlong, with a top- 

 shaped base, 3"-4" long, reflexed. 



In dry soil. VirRinia and K- I'torida 



and Alabama, chiefly in the mountain* 

 i-i-nds t.> 600 N"tih Carolina. 



apparently scarce. Aug-Scpt. 



