HEXANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Tofieldia. 459 
(SCHEUCHZE'RIA.* Calyx none : Petals six : Stigmas ses¬ 
sile, lateral: Capsules three, superior, inflated: Seeds 
one or two : Anthers linear. E. Bot. E.) 
(S. palus'tris. 
E. Bot . 1801 — FI. Dan . 76— FI. Lapp . t. 10./. 1 . 
Root long, creeping, scaly. Stems erect, simple, a span high. Leaves few, 
sheathing, rushy, semi-cylindrical, rising above the top of the stem, 
mostly radical, each having a pore at its point, (first remarked by Mr. 
Dalton) through which water oozes when the leaf is compressed. 
Flowers in a simple, terminal, bracteated cluster, greenish brown, small 
and inconspicuous. Petals recurved, equal and uniform, yellowish green. 
Stamens slender and flaccid. Anthers brown, vertical, linear, opening at 
the inner side by two longitudinal parallel fissures. Germens ovate, 
three, (occasionally four, five, or six) with lateral, sessile, oblong, downy 
stigmas. Capsules globose, inflated, each containing one or two roundish 
seeds. E. Bot. 
Marsh Scheuchzerta. This very interesting accession to the British 
Flora, was communicated to Sir J. E. Smith, by the Rev. J. Dalton, the 
fortunate discoverer, who found this very rare plant, (in 1807), growing 
abundantly in Lakeby Car, near Boroughbridge, Yorkshire. 
P. June. E.) 
TOFIELD'IA.f [Cal. three-cleft: Pet. six: Caps, three, 
many-seeded. E:) 
T. palus'trxs. (Flowers forming an ovate head : stem smooth, thread¬ 
shaped, leafless: petals inversely egg-shaped, obtuse: germens 
roundish. E.) 
{Hook. FI. Land. 100— F. Bot. 536. E.)— Seguier. 2. 14— FI. Dan. 36— 
Clus. i. 198— Ger. Em. 96— Lightf. 8. 2. at p. 124— FI. Lapp. 10. 3— Gmel. 
i. 18. 2. 
(j Root woody with long white fibres. Leaves sword-shaped, fibrous. Stem 
a span high, upright, simple, nearly naked, cylindrical. Spike terminating, 
solitary, upright, blunt, thick. Stamens awl-shaped, smooth, opposite 
the petals, but scarcely so long. Anthers fixed by the side, roundish, 
heart-shaped, yellow. Styles short, distinct. Summit blunt. Seeds 
numerous, oval, tawny-coloured. FI. Brit. E.) A small trifid Jloral- 
leaf at the base of each flower, resembling a cup. Lightf. Leaves like 
grass, (all radical, one to two inches long, ribbed, incurved at the point). 
Flowers small, yellow or greenish. 
Scottish Asphodel. Marsh Tofieldia. (T. palustris. Huds. With. 
Sm. Hook. Winch. E.) Asphodelus Lancastrice verus. Ger. Em. 96. n. 
J 2. Anthericum calyculatum. Linn. Lightf. Dicks. Oed. Bogs on moun¬ 
tains in Scotland, (and Ireland. E.) Near Berwick. On Glenmore, Ross- 
shire, and Ben Grihum, Sutherland. About Loch Rannoch, Perthshire. 
Isle of Rum, and Bidan-nam-bian in Glencoe. (In a bog at the back 
of Invercauld house, Aberdeenshire, abundant, and with an uncommon 
luxuriance. Also on several hills about Invercauld, and on the mountains 
* (To commemorate the two Scheuchzers, naturalists addicted to alpine plants and 
grasses : authors of “ Itinera Alpina,”—“ Agrostographia,” &c. E.) 
*|* (So named by Hudson after Mr. Tofield, an eminent Botanist of Doncaster. E.) 
