60 AFT. BOT. 



3 broad, petiol 2 or 3 inches, flowtrs white 

 pretty large> capsule commonly with lobes or 

 cells unequal, t 



437, Geb. geminatum Raf. herb, p. 64. fol. 

 lin. longiss. lato planis non striatis, obt. scapo 

 equante fllif. bifloro, spatha bivalvia eq, subul. 

 \anceol. pedicellis 2 equalib. sepalis lanceol. 

 stam. inclusis West Kentucky semipedal^len- 

 der, fl. white, deemed M. striatum by Torrey, 

 totally unlike the African sp. reduced to mini- 

 mum of umbellate flowers. 



438, Geb. stenium Raf. kerb. p. 65. fol. tfiif. 

 planiusc. obt. scapo breviorib. scapo ter eto,umlx 

 sepe 3flora, ped. eq. filif, spatha 3valvis ovato- 

 lanc. acum. sepalis lanceol. aeutis ad stam. lon- 

 gior Illinois, fl, white vernal, scape ped&U 

 leaves half size. 



439, Geb. tenellum Raf. fol. filif. planiusc. 

 obt. scapo breviorib. scapo filif. substriatum ; 

 umbella '2-4Hora, pedic. filif. ineq. erectis, spa- 

 tha bivalyis brevis lanceol. eq. obtusis, sepalis 

 obi. ellipt. subobtusis stam. subequante Flor* 

 ida, akin to the 2 last and also to G. sulcaturn, 

 but different from all, very slender 6 to 9 inches 

 high, sometimes only 2 fl. as in geminatum* but 

 unequal in length, white : deemed a N. sp. by 

 Baldwin. All our narrow leaved and few flow- 

 ed sp. have been mingled by our botanists with 

 African sp. as AUiwn striatum, fragrans, ino* 

 dorum, and all perhaps included in A. ornitho- 

 galoides of Walter, see 443 and 444. 



440, Geb. proliferum Raf. scaposum, fol. lin. 

 angustissimis planis nervosis obt. scapo terete 

 longior; umbella pauci flora sepe bulbo magno 

 ferens in spatha centralis bivalvis, spatha ext. 

 reflexa bivalvis, ovata pedic. ineq. ftexuosis, se- 

 palis obi. obt, stam. equante Missouri, deemed 



