564. 
ANTHERICUM pomeridianum. 
Postmeridian Anthericum. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AsPHODELI. Jussieu gen. 51. Div. If, Flores spicati. 
- Radix fibrosa. Calyx sexpartitus, basi staminifer. 
ASPHODELER. Brown prod. 1. 274. 
ANTHERICUM. Cor. sexpartita, patens, wqualis, decidua. il, 
(omnia v. interiora) barbata. Anth. versatiles. Germ. loculis polyspermis. 
Stylus filiformis. Stigma subpapulosum. Caps. subglobosa, 3-loc., 3- 
yalvis, valyis medio septiferis. Sem. pauca, angulata, umbilico nudo. 
Herb sepée annue. Radix fasciculato-jibrosa, rariusve tuberosa. Folia 
linearia, canaliculata, sepé carnosa. Racemi simplices. Pedunculi solitariz, 
cum calyce articulati. Flores erecti, flavi. Stam. sepé declinata. Fila- 
mentorum barba laxa. Embryo in quibusdam rectus. Brown prod. 1. 275. 
Ops. Corolla sepée emarcido-persistens. Filamenta interdum nuda. 
Germinis loculamenta modo disperma. Flores colore varit. Capsula nune 
oblonga. In PHALANGIO proximo anthere erecte a basi inserte, stylus 
superne versus incrascescens, pedunculi infra calycem nequaquam cum illo . 
articulati. 
A, pomeridianum, foliis flaccidiusculis lato-subulatis, triquetro-canaliculatis 
cum carina acuta, glaucis margine nervisque (supra) scabris; caule pani- 
culato-ramoso: filamentis imberbibus. 
Anthericum pomeridianum. Nobis in journ. of science and the arts. 1. 181. 
Scilla pomeridiana. Decand. hort. monsp. 143. n.195. Redouté liliac. 8. 
t. 421. 
Rhizoma bulbiceps tunicis fuscis grossius fibroso-contextis subvaginantibus 
vestitum. Folia radicalia, scirpoideo-triquetra, lenta, plura, ambientia, exte- 
riora longiora, sesqui-bipedalia, supra glauca nervisque scabris striata, ultimis 
lateribus revoluta, subtds glabra virentia. Flores pomeridiani, fugaces, 
teneri, convoluto-emarcescentes, albi, inodori. Pedunculi 1-flori, virides, 
teretes, glabri: corolla diametro subsesquiuncialt, sexpartita, recurvo-radi- 
ata, inferné connivens, laciniis lineari-ligulatis, obtusis, superné distantibus, 
vittd media dorsali ¢ viridt atque purpureo sordescente notatis, interiorbus 
sublatioribus obtusioribusque. Stam. corolle equalia, erecto-divergentia: fil. 
basi laciniarum brevissime adnata, filiformi-subulata, glabra, inferne subdila- 
tata intusque subcanaliculata: anth. lineari-oblonge, violaceo-fuscate, pol- 
line luteo. Germ. viride, oblongum, superné angustatum, pluries brevius 
stylo, rotundaté 3-gonum, lineis 6 pallidioribus notatum, loculis subdispermis. 
Stylus setaceus, cum curvo lent subascendens, staminibus equalis, puncto stig- 
matoso emarginato terminatus. 
Recently introduced by Messrs. Colvill,. with whom it 
flowered last June in the greenhouse of their nursery in the 
King’s Road, Chelsea. The native place does not appear to 
have been ascertained. It has been cultivated for some 
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