MOXOCOTYLEDONOUS OR ENDOGEKOUS PLANTS. 545 



reus. Marcli and April. Scape 4-9' long, at length pro- 

 cumbent ; flowers 9"-12" wide. 



137. BLOODWORT FAMILY. Order, H^modo- 



RACE^. 



Perennial fibrons-rooted herbs, "vvitli leafy or scape-like 

 stems, mostly equitant and sword-sbaped leaves, and regu- 

 lar woolly or scurfy flowers ; pericnith tubular, G-cleft, more 

 or less cohering with the 3-celled ovary ; stamens 3 or 6; 

 anthers adnate, introrse, 2-celled ; ovules mostly few, ana- 

 tropous or amphitropous, attached to the central pjacentae ; 

 styles Z, \\\\\iQ(i, deciduous, or persistent and separating; 

 stigma entire; capsule inclosed in the persistent perianth, 

 loculicidally 3-valved at the apex ; embryo small, in hard 

 albumen. 



138. PINE-APPLE FAMILY. Order, Bromeliace^. 



Chiefly scurfy epiphytes, with fibrous roots, rigid leaves, 

 and regular conspicuously bracted mostly spiked floiuers ; 

 perianth free, or more or less adnate to the 3-celled ovary, 

 6-parted, imbricated, the three outer divisions calyx-like; 

 stamens G; anthers 2-celled, introrse; ovules numerous, 

 anatropous, erect or pendulous; placentcB central; style 

 single; stigmas '6; fruit berry-like, or 3-celled, 3-valved 

 capsule; seeds stalked; embryo small, at the base of 

 copious mealy albumen. 



TILLANDSIA, L. Long Moss ; Air-plant. 



Sepals rigid ; petals imbricated and tube-like below, 

 spreading above; stamens filiform, hypogynous ; ovary 

 free ; style slender ; capsule linear or linear-oblong, cartila- 

 ginous, septicidally 3-valved, each valve separating into 3 

 plates; ^ee^Z^ erect, club-shaped, pointed, raised on along 

 and hairy stalk ; radical leaves mostly crowded, imbricated ; 

 petals fugacious. 



