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Spring Flora of Oklahoma 
much-branched. Leaves linear, straight or somewhat curved, long- 
attenuate. Narrow bracts and glabrous pedicels soon deflexed. Sep¬ 
als ovate-lanceolate, 4"-5" long. Petals blue. 
Sandy or clayey soil. Oklahoma and Cleveland counties. Easily 
transplanted. 
FAMILY 3. MELANTHACEiE. Bunch Flower Family. 
Leafy-stemmed perennials, with rootstocks or solid 
bulbs. Flowers racemose or paniculate, perfect, dioecious, 
or polygamous. Petals and sepals each 3, distinct or 
nearly so. Stamens 6; filaments often nearly adnate to 
the base of the sepals and petals; anthers versatile. Pis¬ 
til of three united carpels; ovary 3-celled; styles 3. Fruit 
a septicidal capsule. 
Plants bulbous, perianth segments with one gland. 
Ovary partly inferior; gland obcordate. I. Anticlea. 
Ovary wholly superior; gland obovate or half-orbicu¬ 
lar. II. Toxicoscordion. 
I. ANTICLEA Kunth. 
Glabrous, perennial herbs, with membranous-coated 
bulbs, leafy stems, and rather large, greenish or yellow¬ 
ish-white flowers in terminal racemes. Leaves linear. 
Flowers perfect. Perianth withering-persistent, adnate 
to the lower part of the ovary, its segments bearing a 
single obcordate gland. Stamens free. Capsule 3-celled. 
Seeds numerous. 
1. Anticlea clegans (Pursh.) Rydb. Glaucous Anticlea. Plant 
glaucous. Bulb ovoid, about 1' long, its coat membranous. Stem 
6'-3° tall. Leaves 2"-7" wide; 4'-12' long. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, 
often membranous-margined. Flowers racemose or paniculate, dirty 
white; petals and sepals oval or obovate, obtuse. Capsule ovoid. 
In moist soil. Collected by A. H. Van Vleet. May-August. 
II. TOXICOSCORDION Rydb. 
Glabrous, poisonous, perennial herbs, with membranous- 
