xerophthalmia (zerofthalmia)

[NL., IMG:content-2642.jpg:[ocr errors] elenged leaves, small forming a conspicious basal tuft, and also numerous along the stem, but much smaller and thinner, finally diminished into bristles. The flowers are white and very showy, forming a long terminal raceme which is at first densely pyramidal or oblong and becomes afterward greatly elongated. X. set i folium, the eastern species, is a native of pine-barrens from New Jersey to Georgia; the western, X. Douglas i i, with a smaller raceme, occurs from the Columbia river to Montana; the raceme of X. tenax, of California, is fragrant and dense, becoming over a foot in length. 2. [ l. c.] A plant of this genus. xerosis (zē-ro's is), n. [NL., xerostomia xerostomia (zē-rō-stō'mi-ä), п. [NL.,