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BROMELIACE^E. (PINE-APPLE FAMILY.) 



anthers oblong. Style subulate, erect, persistent and separable : stigma entire. 

 Capsule ovate, coriaceous, 3-ribbed and 3-furrowed. Seeds anatropous. few, 

 linear-oblong, curved, fixed at the base. 



I. L. aurea, Ker. Stem erect, finely pubescent above, mostly simple; 

 lowest leaves linear-sword-shaped, acute, equitant, the others diminishing up- 

 ward, remote ; flowers small, yellow within, in close or open corymbose woolly 

 racemes. (Conostvlis Americana, Pursh) — Wet pine barrens, Florida, and 

 northward. July. — Stem 2° high, creeping at the base. Leaves 4' - 12' long. 

 Flowers 3" long, nodding in the bud. 



3. ALETRIS, L. Star-grass. 



Perianth tubular, scurfy and viscid without, smooth within, G-clefr, the tube 

 adnate to the base of the ovary. Stamens G, very short, included : anthers 

 sagittate. Style subulate, erect, persistent, and separable : stigmas 3. Capsule 

 ovate, coriaceous. Seeds ovate, ribbed, fixed at the base. — Perennial herbs, 

 with slender scape-like linear-bractcd stems, bearing at the base a cluster of flat 

 spreading leaves, and at the summit numerous small white or yellow flowers in a 

 spiked raceme. 



1. A. farinosa, L. Leaves lanceolate, very acute, sessile; spike short 

 (3' -12'), rigid; flowers approximate or crowded; perianth white or yellow, 

 nearly sessile, cylindrical, with narrow and spreading lobes ; style slender, sub- 

 ulate, 3-cleft ; capsule ovate-lanceolate, longer than the perianth. — Pine-barren 

 swamps, Florida to North Carolina. May and June. — Scape 2° -3° high. 

 Leaves 3'-G' long. Perianth 4" long. 



2. A. aurea, Walt. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, very acute, narrowed at the 

 base; raceme elongated (1° -2°), slender ; flowers scattered; perianth white or 

 yellow, short-stalked, globose-ovate, with broad and connivent lobes ; style short, 

 somewhat conical, obscurely 3-cleft ; capsule ovate, as long as the perianth. — 

 Low sandy soil, Florida to North Carolina. May and June. — Scape 2° -3° 

 high. Leaves 2' - 4' long. Perianth 2" - 3'' long. 



Order 14G. BROMELIACEJG. (Pixe-Apple Family.) 



Chiefly scurfy epiphytes, with fibrous roots, rigid loaves, and regular 

 conspicuously bracted mostly spiked flowers. — Perianth free, or more or 

 less adnate to lbe 3-celled ovary, 6-parted, imbricated, the three outer 

 divisions calyx-like. Stamens G . anthers 2-celled, introrse. Ovules nu- 

 merous, anatropous, erect or pendulous. Placenta central. Style single: 

 stigmas 3. Fruit berry-like, or 3-celled, S-valved capsule. Seeds stalked. 

 Embryo small, at the base of copious mealy albumen. 



1. TILLANDSIA, L. Long Moss. Aib-Plant. 



Sepals rigid. Petals imbricated and tube like below, spreading above. Sta- 

 mens filiform, hypogynous. Ovary free. Style slender. Capsule linear or 



