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Amaryllidaceae. Amaryllis Family. 



Geophilous, perennial herbs with bulbs or rhizomes and 

 scapose or aerial stems, or some tropical species trees. Leaves 

 sword-shaped sometimes fleshy. Flowers iDisporangiate, epigy- 

 nous, pentacyclic, actinomorphoric, trimerous; ovulary trilocular; 

 fruit usually a capsule. 



Key. 



1. Inflorescence a spike or raceme; plants glabrous. Manfreda. 



1. Inflorescence umbellate or flowers solitary. 2. 



2. Perianth tubular with a crown; plants glabrous, cultivated. 



A^arcissHS. 

 2. Perianth spreading, star-shaped, without a crown; plants villous. 



Hy pox sis. 



Manfreda Salisb. 

 Fleshy herbs with bulbiferous rootstalks and bracted scapes, 

 the leaves basal and the flowers in terminal spikes or racemes. 

 Perianth tubular or funnelform withering persistent; sepals and 

 petals of nearly equal length, united below into a tube. Stainens 

 inserted on the perianth, exserted, filaments flattened. Ovulary 

 trilocular, style slender, exserted; ovules numerous; capsule ovoid. 



1. Manfreda virginica (L.) Salisb. False Aloe. Perennial 

 geophilous herbs J/2 to 2 feet high; leaves sword-shaped, fleshy, 

 with smooth or denticulate edges. Flowers borne in a loose spike 

 on a scape 2 to G feet tall, greenish-yellow in color, solitary in the 

 axils of bracts. Perianth nearly tubular, f to 1 inch long. Cap- 

 sule I to f inch diameter, slightly longer than thick. Lawrence 

 cotmty. 



Narcissus L. 



Bulbous herbs with leafless scapes and linear, basal leaves. 

 Flowers solitary or several substended by a deciduous spathe; 

 Perianth 6-partcd bearing a cup-like crown in the throat. Sta- 

 mens united with perianth tube. Ovulary trilocular, capsule 

 thin- walled. 



1. Narcissus pseudo-narcissus. L. Daffodil. Scape about 

 1 foot high; leaves linear; flowers bright yellow 2 to 'S inches broad, 

 crown serrate. Cultivated. 



Hypoxis. L. 



Perennial, villous herbs with short rootstocks and grass-like 

 leaves. Flowers borne on slender scapes, regular; stamens united 

 with the bases of the perianth segments. Ovulary trilocular; 

 capsule oblong, not dehiscent by valves. 



1 . Hypoxis hirsuta (L.) Covillc. Yellow Stargrass. Leaves 

 linear .J to 12 inches long, |- to j inch wide. Flowers 1 to 6 

 umbellate, bright yellow within, greenish without, plant villous. 

 General. 



