AMAEYLLIDACEAE. 



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Narcissus Jonquilla L., JONQUIL, European, common in gardens, has yel- 

 low flowers with a cup-shaped crown and is recorded by Lefroy as escaped from 

 cultivation. 



2. PANCRATIUM L. 



Bulbous herbs with fleshy, linear basal leaves, and large white flowers, 

 umbellate or solitary on leafless scapes. Bulbs coated. Bracts 2, membranous. 

 Perianth funnelform, its 6 narrow lobes erect-spreading, its tube short or 

 elongated. Stamens inserted at the perianth-throat, not exserted, united be- 

 low by a thin membrane; anthers versatile. Ovary 3-celled, with many ovules 

 in 2 rows in each cavity; style long, filiform; stigma small and capitate. 

 Capsule 3-angled, 3-valved. Seeds numerous, flattened, angled, black. [Greek, 

 all-powerful.] About 15 species, natives of warmer parts of the Old World, the 

 following typical. 



1. Pancratium maritimum L. SEA 



DAFFODIL. (Fig. 101.) Bulb short-necked, 

 about 3' thick, brown-coated. Scape rather 

 stout, flattened, about 1 high, bearing an 

 umbel of 5-10 flowers on very short pedicels ; 

 leaves several, 2 long or less, glaucous- 

 green, 5"-10" wide ; bracts ovate, acuminate, 

 2' long or less; flowers 3'-4' long, the nar- 

 row tube gradually expanded above, some- 

 what longer than the linear segments; stam- 

 inal membranous cup about 1' long, toothed 

 between the filaments. Capsule short-oblong, 

 1' long, \' thick, bluntly 3-lobed; seeds 

 about 7" long. 



On grassy banks and in yards, Boaz Island 

 near Watford Bridge. Naturalized. Native of 

 southern Europe. Recorded by Reade from 

 the same place in 1883, and still abundant 

 there in 1012, flowering freely in autumn and 

 late summer. 



3. HYMENOCALLIS Salisb. 



Fleshy herbs, with coated bulbs and large white flowers. Leaves basal, 

 linear or nearly so, often strap-like. Scape terminated by an umbel, with 

 membranous bracts. Perianth showy, its tube elongated, slender, its lobes 

 narrow, nearly equal, spreading. Stamens 6; filaments adnate to the perianth- 

 tube, above which they are connected by a thin cup-like or saucer-shaped mem- 

 brane; anthers narrow, versatile. Ovary 3-celled; style filiform, exserted; 

 stigma nearly entire. Ovules 1 or 2 in each cavity. Capsule thick, rather 

 fleshy. Seeds green and fleshy, 1 or '2 in each cavity. [Greek, beautiful mem- 

 brane.] About 30 species, natives of tropical America. Type species: Ey- 

 menocallis littoralis (Jacq.) Salisb. 



