IL£MODORACE~£. (lJLOODWORT FAMILY.) 4CU 



2. H. juncea, Smith. Sparingly hairy; leaves filiform ; scapes 1 - 3, fili- 

 form, I -2-ilowered ; bracts bristle-like, shorter than the villous pedicels ; divis- 

 ions of the perianth oblong, the three exterior ones greenish and hairy without ; 

 partitions of the capsule vanishing at maturity ; seeds black, minutely pitted. 

 (H filifolia, Ell.) — Low pine barrens, Florida and the lower districts of Geor- 

 gia, and westward. March and April. — Scape 4'- 9' long, at length procum- 

 bent. Flowers i)'' - 12" wide. 



Order 145. HiE3IODORACE^. (Bloodwort Family.) 



Perennial fibrous-rooted herbs, with leafy or scape-like stems, mostly 

 equitant and sword-shaped leaves, and regular woolly or scurfy flowers. 

 — Perianth tubular, G-cleft, more or less cohering with the 3-celled ovary. 

 Stamens 3 or G : anthers adnate, introrse, 2-celled. Ovules mostly few, 

 anatropous or amphitropous, attached to the central placenta. Styles 3, 

 united, deciduous, or persistent and separating : stigma entire. Capsule 

 enclosed in the persistent perianth, loculicidally 3-valved at the apex. 

 Embryo small, in hard albumen. 



Synopsis. 



1 LACHNANTHES. Perianth woolly: stamens 3: stj-le deciduous: flowers cymose : stern 



leafy. 



2 LOl'IIIOLA. Perianth woolly : stamens 6 : style persistent : flowers corymbose: stem 



leity. 

 3. ALKTltlS. Perianth scurf}' : stamens 6 : style persistent : flowers spiked : stem scape-like. 



1. LACHNANTHES, Ell. 



Perianth woolly without, 6-lobed ; with the exterior lobes smaller ; the tube ad- 

 nate to the ovary. Stamens 3, slender, exserted, opposite the interior lobes of 

 the perianth : anthers linear. Style filiform, declined, deciduous : stigma entire. 

 Capsule globose, 3-angled. Seeds amphitropous, few, thin, orbicular, concave, 

 fixed by the middle to the thick globose placentas. — A leafy-stemmed plant, 

 with orange-colored juice. 



1. L. tinetoria, Ell. Root red, fibrous ; stem mostly simple, villous above ; 

 leaves linear-sword-shaped, smooth, the lower ones crowded and equitant, the 

 other.-, smaller and remote; flowers 2-ranked, crowded in lateral and terminal 

 compound woolly cymes, yellow within ; exterior lubes of the perianth linear ; 

 valves of the capsule separating from the placentae ; seeds black. — Ponds and 

 ditches, Florida, and northward July - Sept. — Stem 2°-3° high. Leaves 

 1° - l£° long. Flowers ^ long. Bracts linear. 



2. LOPHIOLA, Kcr. 



P< rianth woolly without, and at the throat within, nearly equally Globed, 

 spreading; the tube adnate to the lower half of the ovary. Stamens G, slender ; 

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