shallow, obtuse segments. Petals obovate, obtuse, slightly pointed, concave, the length of the flower-stalks, and keeping pace with them in their subsequent elongation, when the petals become very narrow at the base. Stamens shorter than the corolla ; the anthers, according to Gmelin, yellow. Germens and styles much like T. stenopetala. Capsules quite pendulous, shorter than the per- manent corolla, obovate, very thin and brittle, combined nearly all the way up, but easily separated, each crowned with a straight spreading style, and capitate stigma. Seeds very numerous, small, slender, prismatic.
Gmelin mentions, on the authority of Steller, a variety with leaves upon the stem, which we should suspect to be a diffcrrent species ; but without seeing specimens, we can determine nothing respecting this point.
T. pubens.Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. ii. 325.
T. pubescens.Pursh Amer. Sept. 246.
Narthecium pubens.Michaux Boreali-Amer. v. i. 209.
Melanthium racemosum.Walt. Carol. 126.
Anthericum filamentis lævibus, perianthio trifido.Linn. Hort. Cliff. 140.Gran. Virg. ed. i. 39.
A. foliis ensiformibus, perianthiis trilobis, filamentis glabris.Gron. Virg. ed. ii. 51.
Asphodelus minor albus.Pluk. Mant. 29.Phyt. t. 342. f. 3.
Native of moist meadows, swamps, and mossy boggy woods, in Virginia and Carolina, flowering in July.Clayton, Pursh.
Having no specimen of this, I postpone its description, till I can examine the Banksian herbarium. It makes the last of five species, which have been confounded together under the Linnæan Anthericum calyculatum.
