238 Monocotylodenous. 



Order C. BROMELIACE^. 



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Calyx gamosepalous, 3-parted, or tubular, persistent. Pe- 

 tals 3. Stamens 6, inserted into the base of the corolla. 

 Ovary 3-celied, us'ialiy cohering with the calyx. Style sim- 

 ple ; stigma 3-parted, often twisted. Fruit capsular, 3-celled, 

 many seeded. Plants usually without stems, with rigid, clian- 

 nelled leaves. 



Geots I TILLANDSIA. 



Calyx 3-cleft, persistent, divided nearly to the base. Sep- 

 als 3, slightly united at the base. Capsule 1-3-cclled. Seeds 

 comose. Parasitic plants. 



1 T UsNEoiDES. Ste?n long, attached to the limbs of trees, covered with 

 membranaceous scales, nearly terete. Leaves similar to the stem. Flowers 

 solitary, axillary ; segments of the calyx lanceolate, membranaceous. Petals 

 linear. Starneus shorter than the tube. Long moss. 



Greenish white. % Through the summer. 



2 T Bartramh. Stem attached to the bark and wood of old trees. Leaves 

 subulate, channelled, hoary, covered with whitish scales, carrilaginous at the 

 base. Flowers in pairs at the summit of simple leafy scapes. The upper 

 leaves tinsfed with red at the base. 



% June. Middle Ga. 



3 T Recurvata. S^em terete, short. Leaves subulate terete, recurved 

 Flowers in pairs, at the summit oi the stem, sessile. Petals longer than the 

 calyx. 



Purple. 7]- On old trees. Southern Ga. and Florida. 



Genus II AGAVE. 



Calyx and corolla confoiindcd, G-parted, etect, tubular, fur- 

 rowed. Stamens 6, loiiaer than the corolla. Anthers versa. 

 tile. Style spotted, shorter than the stamens. 



1 A ViRGiNicA. (S/e/n, or scape erect, glabrous, succulent. Radicle leaves 

 lanceolate, acute, succulent, serrate ; cauline leaves amplexicaule, resembling 

 scales, broad. Flowers in long terminal spikes. Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved. 

 Seeds numerous, compressed, with two rows in each cell, attached to a cen- 

 tral placentae. Virginian Ai<;ave. Rattlesnake's /wister. Thick leaved snalieroot' 

 Greenish white. % .July — Aug. Middle Ga. JNear Culloden. 4-6 ft. 



Tribe II. HEXAPETALOIDE.E. 



Petals and sepals confounded, usually 6, and al! colored, 

 and undistinojuishahle from each other. 



OiiDi.R Cf. xIYPOXIDE^. 



Perianth petaloid, superior, G-partcd, regular. Stamens 

 6, inserted into the base of the segments. Ovary inferior, 

 3-cellud, many seeded. Style 1. Stigma 3-lobed. Capsule 



