M 
ABALON. 
Varieties and deviations 1. Pumilum, 6 or 8 
inches, leaves narrow, linear above. Mts Alle- 
ghany, rare. 
2. Sylvoticum , large, bipedal, lower leaves 
broader and thick, cuneate nearly obtuse: 
crowded on the stem. In woods. 
3. Serpentarium , raceme elongate flexuose 
like a Snake. 
4. Spicatum , flowers nearly sessile forming 
a long spike, the pistillate flowers remote 
Kentucky .... 
5. Obovatum , radical leaves petiolate obovate 
nervose, obtuse, stem leaves remote cuneate 
few obtuse. Alabama and Florida : perhaps a 
species, fertile flowers very remote. 
Flowers white, the pistillate greenish not so 
crowded — found from Maine to Missouri and 
Floridas, in meadows, glades and woods. 
Root tuberose premorse, medical, see my med- 
ical flora. 
Figures. Autikon Raf. 1 to 5. 
ABAMA of Adanson. His good Genus 
was wrongly named Tojielda by Hudson ; but 
some American Sp. united to it, being distinct, 
I called them Conradia or Leptilix in Neog. 
1825. Nuttal has named another Genus Con- 
radia in 1834. I therefore restore the Aba - 
ma for our Tojieldas and thus reform the 
characters. 
Abama. Calix small 3dentate. Corolla 6- 
parted obtuse alternate longer. Stamens 6fili- 
form on the corolla and opposite. Pistil one 
conical 3angular. 3 Styles spreading short, 
stigmas capitate. One capsule 3celled, 3val- 
ved, valves bifid above, cells with 2 or more 
seeds — Habit leaves ensiform, flowers white 
racemose, peduncles commonly triflore. — Con- 
