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AMARYLLIDEA. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) 
Chiefly bulbous and seape-bearing smooth herbs, with flat linear 
root leaves, regular perfect 6-androus flowers, tube of the corella-like 
6-parted perianth coherent with the 3-celled ovary (lobes imbricate in 
bud), introrse anthers, single style, and a several to many-seeded pod. 
* Root tuberous. 
1. Hypoxis. Flowers umbellate: pod circumscissile: leaves grass-like. 
2, Agave. Flowers spiked: leaves thick and fleshy, 
~ Root bulbous. 
3. Cooperia. Scape one-flowered: perianth-tube very long. 
. Crinus. Scape 2 to 4-Howered: perianth-tube elongated. 
. Zephyranthes. Scape one-flowered : perianth-tube short or none, 
1. HYPOXIS L. (STAR-GRASS.) 
Small stemless herbs, with grass-like hairy linear leaves, slender few- 
flowered scape, spreading persistent perianth (3 outer divisions a little 
herbaceous), sagittate erect anthers, indehiscent pod crowned with the 
withered or closed perianth, and globular seeds. 
1. Herecta L. Leaves longer than the umbellately 1 to 4-flowered scape: 
perianth-divisions hairy, ereenish without, yellow within.—From the head waters 
of the Trinity to Hockley. 
2. AGAVE L. (AMERICAN ALOE.) 
‘onspicnous plants, with thick fleshy leaves (often toothed) clustered 
at base of a many-flowered scape from a thick fibrous-rooted crown, 
the persistent tubular-funnelform perianth parted into narrow subequal 
divisions, versatile linear anthers, coriaceous many-seeded pod, and 
flattened seeds. 
* Flowers solitary from the axils of the bracts, loosely spicate. 
1. A. Virginica L. Herbaceous: leaves entire or denticulate, broad or oblong- 
lanceolate, concave, decp green: scape simple, smooth, 4 to 18 din. high: flowers 
senttered in a loose wand-like spike, greenish-yellow, fragrant: perianth 2 to 2.5 em. 
long, its narrow tube twice longer than the erect lobes. —Hills of the Rio Grande, 
from El Paso to Laredo, Extending from the South Atlantic States, 
2. A. maculosa Hook. Leaves linear (1.5 to 38.din. long), froma thick cylindrical 
subterranean caudex, concave, dark spotted, cartilaginous-dentate: spikes with 
lanceolate-subulate bracts: perianth-lobes whitish, linear-oblong, rotate-spreading, 
much shorter than the slender subeylindrical tube (2.5 cm, long): stamens inserted 
in the throat, hardly equaling the lobes and mostly exceeding the style: stigmas 
spreading, obcordate: ovary ovate-lanceolate, short: pod oblong, long-cuspidate, 
contracted at base into a stipe. (4. maculata Engelm., not Regel.)—Throughout 
southern Texas. . . 
3. A. variegata Jacobi. Stemless: scape 9 to 15 dm, high: leaves broadly lan- 
ceolate (2 to 2.5 dm, long), undulate and sharply denticulate on the margin: perianth 
broadly funnelform; thé lobes ovate-oblong, spreading (finally reflexed), equaling 
the ovary and tube, 12 mm. long: filaments adnate to the upper part of the tube, 
long-exserted (5 cm. long); anthers 12 mm. long: style slender, exceeding the 
stamens: pod oblong, cuspidate: sceds oblique, 5 mm. in the longest diameter.— 
Near Hidalgo and Ringgold. 
