'172 lOS.Tofieldia. 13. COLCHICACE.E. PL end. ph. 



I. 108. TOFIELDIA. Hudson. Tofield. 

 Pengonium 6-sepaled ; involucrum small, 3-cut at the 



bottom ; stamens smooth ; anthers roundish, incumbent ; 

 style vertical, short ; capsules 3, joined at the base ; seeds 

 many, long, acute. — Root fibrous, perennial; rhizoma creep- 

 ing*; stfm upright, naked or with 1 or 2 short leaves; leaves 

 equitant, swordshape, ribbed, sheathing at bottom, edge 

 membranaceous ; floicers spiked or capitate, yellow or white ; 

 peduncle solitary, bracteate. 



Tqfield'ia pahistris. Marsh tofield. 



Spike ovate obtuse ; scape smooth, threadlike ; sepales 

 obovate, obtuse ; ovary roundish ; flowers nearly sessile. 



Phalanginni Scotimm palostre minimum iridis folio, Rail Syn. 375.2, 



Antliericuta calvculatum, Lin. S. P. 447. 



Hflonias boreal'is, Willd. S. P. 2,274. 



Tofieldia paluitris, Huds. Fl. Angl. 157. 



Nathericuin pusillum, Michaux Am. Bor. 1,209. 



Scotch asphodel. Lancaster asphodel. 



Mountain bogs ; perennial ; July to September. 

 Stein 12 in. high; spike solitary, obtuse, dense; flo rs 

 yellowish ; bractece ovate, very small, concave. 



II. 109. COLCHICUM. Dioscorides. Meadow-saffrm. 

 Perigonium tubular, radical; limb campanulate, 6-parted; 



stamens inserted at the top of the tube; anthers ohXong, 

 versatile ; ovary 1 ; styles 3, very long; stigmata 3, hooked; 

 capsules 3-lobed, lobes inflated, upright, joined at the base ; 

 seeds many; corculum opposite to the umbilicus. — Bulb 

 ovate, I or 2 new ones arising from beneath the persistent 

 tunics of the old plant in whose half-embracing sinus they 

 are lodged ; tunics hard, coriaceous ; spatite cylindri- 

 cal, cloven on one side of the apex; flowers 2 to 6, half 

 produced out of the spa.ihe', fruit becoming peduncled; 

 leaves coming out with the fruit, a long time after the 

 flower; rQC^icaZZer/i'ev sheathing; stem-leaves half-embracing; 

 stems frequently two, one flowering, fruitful, as above; the 

 other slender, above the firstj seldom flowering. 



Colchicum autumnale. Autumnal meadow-saffron. 



Leaver flat, broad, lanceolate; sepales ovate: bulbs rather 

 many-flowered ; flowers appearing long before the leaves. 



Colchicum commune, Ra'i Syn. 373. 

 Coli'iiicum An^lrcum pur|)iireiirn, Gcr.em. 127. 

 Colchicum aulumiiale, Lin. S. P. 4b5, 



