LILY FAMILY. 339 



IV. ASPARAGUS FAMILY; with parallel-veined mostly 

 alternate leaves, branching or simple stems from a root-lo.'k, ;it 

 least there is no bulb, a single style (if cleft or lobed at all only at 

 the summit), and fruit a few several-seeded berry. Pedicel- v-ry 

 often with a joint in the middle or under the ilouvr. Flower 

 almost always small, and white or greenish, chiefly perfect. 



1. Herbs with ordinary broad lenves. 



* Flowers bell-shaped, of 6 separate and similar deciduous divisions: stamens on (he 

 receptacle or nearly so : anthers turned 



13. CLINTONIA. Flowers erect, few or several in an umbel on a naked scape, 



the base of which is sheathed by the stalks of a few large oval or oblong ana 

 ciliate root-leaves. Filaments long and slender; anthers linear or oM 

 style long. Ovary 2 - 3-celled, becoming a blue berry. Rootstocks creeping, 

 like those of Lily-of-the- Valley, which the leaves also resemble. 



14. PROSARTES. Flowers single or few, hanging at the end of the leafy spreading 



branches on slender simple stalks, yellowish. Divisions of the perianth 

 lanceolate or linear. Filaments much longer than the linear-oblong blunt 

 anthers. Ovary with a pair of hanging ovules in each of the :> cells, l>-com- 

 ing an ovoid or oblong and pointed red berry. Rootstock short, not creep- 

 ing: herbage downy. 



15. STREPTOPUS. Flowers single or rarely in pairs along the leafy and forking 



stem, just out of the axils of the ovate clasping loaves: the slender peduncle 

 usually bent in the middle. Divisions of the perianth lanceolate, acute, the 

 three inner ones keeled. Anthers arrow-shaped, on short and flatfish fila- 

 ments. Ovary 3-celled, making a red many-seeded berry. 



# # Flowers trith perianth of one piece, but often deeply parted, (he stamens on its 

 base or tube: anthers turned inwards: stems not branched. 



16. CONVALLARIA. Flowers nodding in a one-sided raceme, on an angle i 



which rises, with the about, two oblong leaves, from a running rootstork. 

 Perianth short bell-shaped, with 6 recurving lobes. Stamens included. 

 Style stout. Ovary with several ovules, becoming a few-seeded red berry. 



17. SMILACINA. Flowers in a raceme or cluster of racemes terminating a leaf- 



bearing stem, small, white. Perianth 6-parted, in one 4-parted. Filaments 

 slender: anthers short. Ovary 2 -3-celled, making a 1 -2-seeded berry. Root- 

 stocks mostlv creeping. 



18. POLYGONATUM. Flowers nodding in the axils of the leaves along a leafy 



and recurving simple stem, which rises from a long and thickened rootstock 

 Perianth greenish, cylindrical, 6-lobed or 6-toothed, bearing the 6 included 

 stamens at or above the middle of the tube. Style slender. < )vary 8-celled 

 with few ovules in each cell, in fruit becoming a globular black or blue few- 

 seeded berry. 



2. Plants with small scales in place of leaves, from the axils of which are produced 

 false-leaves, i. e. bodies which by their position are seen i<> In- of the nature of 

 branches, but which imitate ami net ns leaves. Pn-vmth greenisli <n- whitish, 

 6-parted, (he stamens borne on its base. L'< n-y :;-,//,.-./, the cells Z-seeded. 



19. ASPARAGUS. Flowers greenish-yellow, bell-shaped, scattered along the mucl 



divided branches. Styles short: stigma 3-lobed. The so-called leaves 

 narrow. 



20. MYRSIPHYLLUM. Flowers 2 or 3 in the axils, greenish-white; the lineal 



oblong divisions of the perianth recurved. Stamens almost as 



perianth. Style slender: stigma entire. The so-called 1 

 Stems twining. 



V. LILY FAMILY PROPER (including Asphodel Family} : 1N- 

 tinguished by the single undivided style (or rarely a seile stigma), 

 and fruit a loculicidal pod. Perianth with all 6 parN gen. Tally 

 corolla-like, and in all the following nearly Miuilnr. Leaves par- 

 allel-veined or ribbed, sometimes with uetted-veina aLo. 

 scape mostly simple. 



