340 LILY FAMILY. 



1. From a coated or sometimes scaly bvlb. 



* Stem leafy, especially above, the leaves often irhvrhd or crmcded: divisions of the 



perianth with a honey-bearing furrow or spot at or near the bust : styli long : 

 stigmas or lobes 3: /W packed with 2 rotes of depressed and Jial toft-coaled 

 seeds in each cell. Flowers large, often several. 



21. LILIUM. Flower bell-shaped or funnel-form with the separate or partly united 



divisions spreading or recurved above: the honey-bearing-groove beginning 

 at their ba~e. Anthers linear, at first erect, at length versatile. Pod oblong. 

 Bulb mostly scaly (Lessons, p. 47, fig. 107-109.) 



22. FRITILLARIA. Divisions of the bell-shaped flower distinct, not at all. re- 



curving; the honey-bearing spot above tli c base. Bulb coated or scaly 

 Flowers always nodding, often spotted. 



* * Stem 2-leaved or few-leaved at or towards the base, naked above and ordinarily 



\-flowered at summit : the six pieces of the bell-tlinpcd / rianth separate : sta- 

 mens on the receptacle or nearly so : anthers erect : sctds many, pale. 



23. TULIP A. Stem 1-2-leaved above the ground, bearing an erect large flower. 



Divisions of the perianth broad, not recurved nor spreading. Ovary and pod 

 triangular, columnar: stigmas 3, sessile. Seeds nearly as in Lily. 



24. KRY I'lIlK )M I M. Scape 2-leaved from the . :-ound, bearing a nodding flower. 



Divisions of the perianth lanceolate, recurved or spreading above. Ovary 

 and pod obovate: seeds globular. Style long, more or less club-shaped. 



* * * Scape naked, bearing several or many flowers: seeds very few, globular or 



angled, mostly with a crustaceans or brittle black coat. 



-t- Perianth 6-parled or -sepalled, either wheel-shaped or less widely spreading. 



?,5. ORNITHOGALUM. Flowers in a corymb, bracted, white, wheel-shaped. 

 Style 3-sided: stigma 3-angled. 



26. ALLITM. Flowers in a simple umbel, from a 1-2-lcavedor scarious spathe. 



Style persistent, slender: stigma entire. 



27. SUILLA. Flowers in a simple raceme, mostly blue. Style slender. 



i- -i- Perianth merely 6-toothcd or G-cleft, bearing the short included sla7nens on its 



tube: pod triangular. 



28. MUSCARI. Flowers in a raceme; the globular or urn-shaped narrow-mouthed 



perianth nearly ti-toothcd. 



29. HYACIN fill S." Flowers in a raceme; the short-funnel-shaped or bell-shaped 



perianth i',-c|eft, the lobes spreading. 



2. Scape and leaves from a tuberous rootstock or Jibrous-rooted crown: no bulb. 



* Stamens and styles hmg and slender, declined: stigma nearly simple: Jlotrcrs large. 



30. AGAPANTHl'S. Flowers in a 2-bracted umbel, bine. Perianth tubular at 



base, With t; widely spreading division- nearly regular. Pod triangular, 

 many seeded. Seeds Hat, brownish, winded above. Leaves linear. Hat. 



31. Ft'XK'lA. Flowers in a raceme, blue or white. Perianth funnel-form. G-cleft, 



the lobes hardly spreading, somewhat irregular. Pod oblong, prismatic, 

 many-seeded. Seeds Hat, 'black, with a soft and thin coat, winged at the 

 apex. Leaves ovate or heart-shaped, netted-veiny between the ribs, and on 



petiole^. 



2. HEMEROCALLTS. Flowers few on a somewhat branching scape, yellow, 

 lasting but a day. Perianth funnel-form, with short narrow tube closely in- 

 vesting the ovary ; the nearly similar divisions more or less spreading. Pod 

 thick, at first lle'-hy. Seed/ few in each cell, roundish, with a hard aiid brit- 

 tle black coat. Leaves linear, grassy, keeled. 



* * Stamen* and style straight, protruding from the tubular perianth, 



33. TIMTOMA. Flowers very many, nodding in a dcn<e raceme or spike on a 

 bracted scape. Perianth tubular, regular, red or yellow, 6-toothed. Fila- 

 ments of two lengths. Pod many-seeded. Leaves' narrow-linear, long and 

 grassy, keeled, crowded at the root. 



3. Stem a ircn,!,/ trunk, tillnr short or tm-l/kf, bearing a crotrd of rigid and 

 jwngt nt-i>"inti'il sword-shaped per sistent leares : no bulb. 



32. YUC<' A. Mowers in an ample terminal compound panicle, large, often polyga- 



mous, white or whitish. Perianth of G separate oval or oblong acute divis- 

 ions, not deciduous the o inner broader, longer than the stamens. Stigmas 

 3, sessile. Pod oblong, many-seeded; the depressed seeds as in 



