294 CONVALLARIACEAE 
vide. [S. Elliottii Feay.]—-(WHITE-SUNNYBELL.)—Low pinelands and 
end mM Coastal Plain and rarely adj. di a Ala., and Ga. 
6. MUSCARI [Tourn.] Mill. Scapose succulent herbs with coated bulbs. 
eaf-blades elongate, channeled. Racemes dense, inconspicuously bracted. 
ere globular to urceolate, commonly deep-blue. Filaments adnate to the 
cme -tube e; to near the anthers. nthers nearly as wide as long. -Ovules 
2 eae arpel. Capsules 3-angled or 3-winged.—About 40 species, most 
Sms: in pu Mediterranean region.—GRAPE-HYACINTHS.  BLUE-BOTTLES. 
Perianth eylindric-urceolate: anthers borne alternately high and 
low on the perianth. 1. M. botr P 
Perianth globular-urceolate: anthers borne evenly on the perianth. 2. M.racemosu 
1. M. botryoides (L.) Mill Plants 8-25 em. tall: leaves erect; blades mostly 
6-8 mm. wide: hene mos tly 2.5-4 
m. long; lobes as long as wide, about 
equal: style ous than Xn ovary.— 
Rather common, about gardens and in 
meadows, E U. S. Nat. of Eu. 
2. M. racemosum (L.) Mill. Plants 11- 
28 em. tall: leaves recurved; blades 
mostly 2-4 mm. wi nt 
m ia 4.5— 
long; lo broader than 
long, unequal: sty out as long a 
a 
the ovary. Woods, mot and rl 
gardens, various p N C. 
Miss., Md., and N. Y. Nat. of Eu. and 
pr. 
7. HEMEROCALLIS L. Acaulescent herbs, with thickened coated bulbs. 
Leaf-blades elongate-linear. Perianth yellow or orange, funnelform, the lobes 
broad, longer than the tube. Fila- 
ments adnate to the perianth-tube. Style 
elongate. Capsule somewhat elongate. 
—About 6 e) natives of Eurasia. 
—DAY-LILIE 
1. H. fulva L. Plant 1-2 m. tall: leaf- 
e cent near 
the margins inoluts, crisped: capsule 
id d,. 4-6 em. long.—(TAwNv DAY- 
Y.)—Meadows, roadsides, and thick- 
B various provinces, C. to Pi 
Ont. and N. B. N . of de 
Sum.—A vigorous colonizer, and often a weed, erowding out native vegetation 
in meadows, and on banks and edges of woods. 
Famity 6. CONVALLARIACEAE — Iu DE FAMILY 
Perennial herbs, with rootstocks. Leaves alternate, sometimes all 
basal, dena seale-like.. Flowers in a terminal cluster, raceme, or 
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