290 LILIACEAE 
1. N. bivalve (L.) Britton. Plant 1-4 
dm. tall, the scape slender: leaf-blades 
mostly less than 4 mm. wide, few-veined: 
u als 
ea su ut 
5 mm . long, not an. the as sub- 
orbicular.— —Sandy soil, open woods, 
rocky places, fields, and prairies, various 
.provinees, . Fla. to Tex., Nebr., and 
Va.—(Mez.) 
N. fragrans (Vent.) Kunth. Plant 
t 
3-8 dm. tall, the pd stout: E eaf- 
crane mostly over 7 wide, many- 
ned: umbel im. ps flowered : 
hun an wd petals elliptic or d hepa tery above a narrowed base, 9-12 mm 
long: capsule obovoid, 8-10 mm. long, with a stout stipe-like base, the valves 
N 
elliptic. a roadsides, woods, and eult. grounds, Fla. to La. and S. C. Nat. 
of Africa.—(W. I., Mex.) 
Faminy 5. LILIACEAE — Liny Faminy 
Perennial mainly cau'eseent herbs. Leaves alternate to whorled, 
ometimes all basal: blades entire or essentially so. Flowers solitary or 
variously clustered. Calyx of 3 sepals. Corolla of à petals, together with 
e sepals sometimes partially united into a tu ndroecium of 
stamens, the anthers distinct. Gynoecium of m earpels. Fruit a 
loculicidal eee .—About 100 genera and 1,000 species of wide geographic 
distribution 
BE dno petals distinct. 
ers not introrse: bulbs scaly or solid 
is Tribe I. LILIEAE. 
introrse: bulbs coated. Tribe II. SCILLEAE. 
Sepals and petals partly United: 
hes globose-urceolate, blue: anthers very 
Tribe III. MUSCARIEAE. 
Perianth funnelform, brownish-red or yellow: 
anthers elongate. ribe IV. HEMEROCALLIDEAE. 
I. LIL 
Anthers versatile: leaves several or many, ger seeds flat. 1. LILIUM. 
Anthers erect: leaves 2, basal: seeds globose. 2. ERYTHRONIUM. 
II. Sci 
Sepals and petals elongate: c of a oe — capsule 
not three-lobed at the 
Filaments not flattened : Dor nth blue or purple. 9. QUAMASIA. 
Filaments flattened : perianth greenish-white 4. ORNITHOGALUM. 
Sepals and petals short: anthers of an elliptic type: capsule 
prominently three-lobed at the apex 5. OXYTRIA. 
MUSCARI 
III. 
Small d ii herb with narrow leaf-blades und e race- 
6. MUSCARI. 
IV. HEMEROCALLIDEA 
Large coarse herb with greatly elongate narrow NR 
and large flowers. 
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. HEMEROCALLIS. 
1. LILIUM L. Tall caulescent herbs with scaly bulbs. Leaf-blades flat, 
relatively short. Perianth showy, red, orange, or yellow, more or less mottled 
with brown or black, the sepals, and petals, distinct. Filaments slightly adnate 
