Lophiola
(a diminutive name, deduced from lophos, a crest; referring to the crested sepals). ORD. Haemodoraceae. A monotypic genus, the species being a pretty, slender, hardy, herbaceous perennial, requiring peaty soil, and a rather damp, shady situation. Propagated by divisions of the root, in autumn or spring.
L. aurea (golden). fl. yellow, densely woolly on the outside, disposed in a crowded cyme at the top of a naked scape; perianth deeply six-cleft, with spreading divisions. June. l. narrow-equitant, radical. h. 1 1/2ft. North America, 1811. (B. M. 1596.)