﻿LILY 
  FAMILY 
  31 
  

  

  SUBFAMILY 
  I. 
  LILIACE^E 
  PROPER 
  

   Not 
  tendril 
  climbers, 
  rarely 
  dioecious. 
  

  

  A 
  

  

  Styles 
  or 
  sessile 
  stigmas 
  3, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  separate. 
  

  

  Leaves 
  flat, 
  lanceolate, 
  or 
  spatulate. 
  Flowers 
  dioecious, 
  showy. 
  

  

  Chamaelirium, 
  I 
  

  

  Leaves 
  grass-like. 
  Flowers 
  bisexual, 
  showy. 
  Amianthium, 
  II 
  

   Leaves 
  3-ranked, 
  strongly 
  nerved 
  and 
  plaited. 
  Flowers 
  some- 
  

   what 
  monoecious, 
  small. 
  Veratrum, 
  III 
  

  

  B 
  

  

  Style 
  undivided 
  (in 
  No. 
  XXIII, 
  3 
  sessik 
  stigmas). 
  Plants 
  from 
  root- 
  

   stocks. 
  

  

  Leaves 
  perfoliate. 
  Flowers 
  solitary, 
  drooping, 
  yellow. 
  

  

  Uvularia, 
  IV 
  

  

  Leaves 
  broad, 
  clasping. 
  Flowers 
  solitary 
  or 
  nearly 
  so, 
  drooping, 
  

  

  yellow. 
  Oakesia, 
  V 
  

  

  Leaves 
  scale-like. 
  Thread-like 
  branches 
  borne 
  in 
  their 
  axils. 
  

  

  Flowers 
  small, 
  bell-shaped. 
  Asparagus, 
  XVIII 
  

  

  Leaves 
  several-many, 
  sessile 
  or 
  clasping, 
  alternate. 
  Flowers 
  

  

  small, 
  6-parted, 
  white, 
  in 
  a 
  terminal 
  simple 
  or 
  compound 
  

  

  raceme. 
  Smilacina, 
  XIX 
  

  

  Leaves 
  only 
  2-3, 
  sessile 
  or 
  slightly 
  petioled. 
  Flowers 
  very 
  small, 
  

  

  4-parted, 
  solitary 
  or 
  in 
  a 
  small 
  terminal 
  cluster. 
  

  

  Maianthemum, 
  XX 
  

  

  Leaves 
  clasping. 
  Flowers 
  solitary 
  or 
  in 
  pairs, 
  greenish-white 
  or 
  

   rose-purple, 
  borne 
  on 
  pedicels 
  abruptly 
  bent 
  near 
  the 
  middle. 
  

  

  Streptopus, 
  XXI 
  

  

  Leaves 
  nearly 
  sessile 
  or 
  partly 
  clasping. 
  Flowers 
  axillary, 
  

   greenish, 
  on 
  pedicels 
  jointed 
  near 
  the 
  flower. 
  

  

  Polygonatum, 
  XXII 
  

  

  Leaves 
  only 
  2, 
  directly 
  from 
  the 
  rootstock. 
  Flowers 
  in 
  a 
  raceme, 
  

   bell-shaped, 
  white, 
  sweet-scented. 
  Convallaria, 
  XXIII 
  

  

  Leaves 
  3, 
  netted-veined. 
  Flower 
  single, 
  large, 
  terminal. 
  

  

  Trillium, 
  XXIV 
  

  

  