. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 2. BUNCH-FLOWER FAMILY. 1763. 2. Triantha racemosa (Walt.) Small. Viscid Tofieldia. Fig. 1222. Melanthium racemosum Walt. Fl. Car. 126. 1788. Narthecium pubens' Fl. Bor. Amu 1: 209. 1803. Tofieldia racemosa Prel. Cat. N. Y. 55. 1888.' Triantha racemosa Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 249^ 1903. Similar to the preceding species but' rather stouter and t
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 2. BUNCH-FLOWER FAMILY. 1763. 2. Triantha racemosa (Walt.) Small. Viscid Tofieldia. Fig. 1222. Melanthium racemosum Walt. Fl. Car. 126. 1788. Narthecium pubens' Fl. Bor. Amu 1: 209. 1803. Tofieldia racemosa Prel. Cat. N. Y. 55. 1888.' Triantha racemosa Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 249^ 1903. Similar to the preceding species but' rather stouter and taller, stem I°-3° high, the glutinous pubescence rougher. Leaves very narrowly linear, 6-18' long, ii"-3" wide; raceme 1-4' long in flower, often loose, somewhat longer in fruit, the uppermost flowers first expanding; pedicels mostly clustered in 3's, ascending, a"-3" long in fruit; involucral bractlets about 3" long, united to above the middle, borne just beneath the flower; perianth-segments narrowly obovate, obtuse, rigid; capsule ovoid,, ii" long, little longer than the calyx, its beaks I" long1; seeds short- tailed at each end. In swamps, southern New Jersey to Florida and Alabama. This and the preceding species are also known as False asphodel. June-Sept. 3. ABAMA PI. 2: 47, 511. [Narthecium Juss. Gen. 47. 1789.] Perennial herbs, with creeping or horizontal rootstocks, fibrous roots, erect simple stems and linear .grass-like basal leaves, those of the stem short and distant. Flowers small, greenish-yellow, perfect, borne in a terminal raceme. Pedicels bracted at base and usually bearing a small bractlet. Perianth-segments persistent, linear or linear-lanceolate, obscurely 3-5-nerved, glandless. Stamens 6; filaments subulate, woolly; anthers linear-oblong, erect, introrse. Ovary sessile; style very short or none; stigma slightly 3-lobed. Capsule oblong, loculicidally dehiscent, many-seeded, the linear seeds tailed at each end
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