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mity 1. LEUCOJACEAE — AMARYLLIS FAMILY 
y succulent, with rootstocks, bulbs, or corms eave 
alternate, wholly or mainly basal. Flowers perfect, the perianth some- 
times with . Calyx of 3 sepals. Corolla of 3 petals, together 
with the sepals partially united into a tube. Androecium of 6 stamens, the 
filaments sometimes united into a crown. Gynoecium of 3 united earpels. 
Ovary ue or half-inferior. Styles united. Ovules numerous.—About 
70 genera and 800 species, most abundant in tropic and warm temperate 
regions. 
Plant B ud. by corms or a rootstocks. 
O and capsule half-inferio Tribe I. ALETREAE. 
DN end capsule wholly peer 
Inflorescence m ke: PTT circumcissile : 
leaves grass-li Tribe II. HYPOXIDEAE. 
Inflorescence Spica cS racemose, or paniculate: 
capsule 3- mn leaves succulent. Tribe III. AGAVEAE. 
Plant Perennial by bul 
Filaments distinct. Tribe IV. CRINEAE. 
Filam ents o with a cup-like or funnelform 
membrane (crown). Tribe V. HYMENOCALLEAE. 
I. ALETREA 
Flowers in a raceme or a spike: perianth granular; lobes rela- 
tively short, converging, erect or somewhat spreading: sta- 
mens ine uded. 1. ALETRIS. 
Il. HYPOXIDEAE 
ao n herbs with narrow leaf-blades and very slender 
capes 2. HxPOXIS. 
III. AGA 
Plant with bulbs, dying down annually: eer oes neither 
spiny-toothed nor spine-tippe 3. MANFREDA. 
Plant with caudices, long-persistent : leaf-blades spiny-toothed 
and spine-tippe 4. AGAVE. 
IV. CRINEAE 
Scapes 1-flowered : stigmas 3. 5. ATAMOSCO. 
Scapes 2-several-flowered : stigmas united. 6. CRINUM 
V. HYMENOCALLEAE 
mates pe pi with strap-like E scape i by 
e flower or by a cluster of flow 7. HYMENOCALLIS. 
1. ALETRIS L. Caulescent herbs with thick rootstocks and scape-like 
stems. Basal leaves spreading. Flowers in an interrupte ed spike or raceme. 
Perianth white to yellow, campanulate, cylindric, or obovoid, granular or mealy: 
lobes much shorter than the tube. Filaments adnate to the middle of the 
pea or above it.—About 8 species, natives of eastern North America and 
Asia.—Spr.—fall, or all year 8.—CoLic-RooTS. STAR-GRASSES. 
Perianth cylindrie or campanulate: filaments adnate to near the base of the peri- 
anth-lobes 
Pe run th campanu e, 5-7 mm. long: lobes erect or M d 1. A. aurea. 
Perianth cylin em i 'constricted above the middle, 7-10 mm 
ong : lobes spreading 
Perianth yellow : euis gradually ET into a beak 
5 as long as the body. 2. A. lutea. 
Perianth white: capsule imo narrowed into a beak as ` 
lo as the body. 
Perianth copiously granular: capsule-body ovoid. . A. farino 
Perianth slightly Herpes capsule-body co re A. delent 
erm obovo id: filaments adnate to a little above poe middle 
the perian 5. A. obovata. 
