THE MONOCOTYLEDONS 489 
ORDER LILIALES 
LILiAcE# oR Lity Famity.—Herbs (Lilium), shrubs (Yucca), 
or trees (Dracena Draco or Dragon’s Blood), with regular and 
Fic. 366.—Smilax officinalis—Portion of vine and root system. Note the 3-nerved 
leaves with stipules modified as tendrils and the berry fruits. (Sayre.) 
symmetrical almost always six-androus flowers. Stem either 
short, creeping under ground (Convallaria), or, swelling up and 
forming bulbs (Hyacinth), or corms (Colchicum), or, stem may 
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