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BROMELIACEAE. 



it was seen growing on rock work at Bellevue in 1913. 



Lindl.J 



[Caraguata iingulata 



Ananas Ananas (L.) Cockerell, PINE APPLE, presumably of South Ameri- 

 can origin, now occasionally grown, but of no commercial importance in Ber- 

 muda, is recorded as introduced from the West Indies in 1616, and was, ap- 

 parently, quite extensively grown for a good many years. [Bromelia Ananas 

 L. ; Ananas sativa Mill.] 



Tillandsia fasciculata Sw., FASCICLED TILLANBSIA, West Indian, occa- 

 sionally grown on rock work and in greenhouses, has large tufts of grey-green 

 linear-lanceolate leaves about 1 long and blue flowers in bracted, fascicled 

 spikes at the top of a stem 1 2 long. 



Aechmaea polystachya (Veil.) Mez, VIOLET AECHMAEA, South American, 

 occasionally planted for ornament and interest, has linear-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, spinulose-serrate leaves l-2 long and about 1' wide above the much 

 wider base, the many-flowered, erect scape somewhat longer than the leaves, 

 the flowers in panicled, flattened erect spikes, the corolla violet-blue. [Tillandsia 

 polystacliya Veil.] 



Dyckia altissima Lindl., TALL DTCKIA, Brazilian, was .sent to Paget Rec- 

 tory from the New York Botanical Garden in 1914. 



Order 9. LILIALES. 



Monocotyledonous plants, mostly with well-developed perianth, the 

 flowers usually regular and complete,, and their parts in 3's or 6's. Ovary 

 superior or inferior, compound. Endosperm of the seed fleshy or horny. 



Ovary superior. 



Perianth-segments distinct, green cr brown, not petal-like ; 



leaves and small flowers. 

 Perianth-segments distinct, or partly united, at least 



the inner petal-like. 

 Herbaceous plants or vines. 

 Fruit a capsule. 

 Fruit a fleshy berry. 



Erect herbs or vines ; tendrils none ; flow- 

 ers perfect. 

 Vines, climbing by tendrils, or rarely erect ; 



flowers dioecious, in axillary umbels. 

 Large tall woody plants. 

 Ovary inferior, wholly or in part. 

 Stamens 6 in our species. 



Erect perennial herbs ; flowers perfect. 

 Twining vines ; flowers dioecious. 

 Stamens 3, opposite the outer corolla-segments. 



herbs with grass-like 



Fam. 1. J0NCACEAE. 



Fam. 2. LILIACEAE. 



Fam. 3. CONVALLAEIACEAE. 



Fam. 4. SMILACEAE. 

 Fam. 5. DRACAENACEAE. 



Fam. 6. AMARYLLIDACEAE. 

 Fam. 7. DIOSCOREACEAE. 

 Fam. 8. IRIDACEAE. 



Family 1. JUNCACEAE Vent. 

 RUSH FAMILY. 



Perennial or sometimes annual, grass-like, usually tufted herbs, com- 

 monly growing in moist places. Inflorescence usually compound or de- 

 compound, paniculate, corymbose, cymose, or umbelloid, rarely reduced to 

 a single flower, bearing its flowers singly, or loosely clustered, or aggre- 

 gated into spikes or heads. Flowers small, regular, with or without bract- 

 lets (prophylla). Perianth 6-parted, the parts glumaceous. Stamens 3 or 

 6, rarely 4 or 5, the anthers adnate, introrse, 2-celled. dehiscing by a slit. 



