46 AMARYLLIS FAMILY 



family as the divisions of the perianth are united to form 

 a six-lobed flower. 



The range of a northern species, A. farinosa, with white 

 flowers, extends into northern Florida. The genus is 

 intensely bitter. 



Aletris lutea. Flowers yellow, tubular, fluted, small, in ter- 

 minal raceme 3-12 in. long. Flowering-stem 1-3 ft. tall. 

 Leaves basal, broadly linear or narrowly elliptic, 1-8 in. long. 

 Low pinelands. Blooming from late winter to summer. Fla. 

 to La. 



Aletris aurea. Similar to above, but flowers are bell- 

 shaped and are slightly smaller. Leaves elliptic or oblong, 

 1-3 in. long. Fla. to Va. and Texas. 



AMARYLLIS FAMILY {Ama/ryllidn^ea^) 



Herbaceous plants, chiefly from bulbs. Flowers 6-parted or 

 6-lobed. Stamens 6. Distinguished from the lily family by 

 the capsule being permanently enclosed in the base of the 

 flower. 



Star-Grass (Genus Hypoxis) 



The bright yellow six-pointed stars of H. juncea are com- 

 mon in pinelands, where it is one of the more abundant 

 of the smaller winter-flowering plants. Of course it is 

 not a grass, nor are the yellow-eyed grasses and blue-eyed 

 grasses related to the true grasses, though they all have 

 grasslike leaves. 



Hypoxis juncea. Flowers yellow ^/^-l in. across, 6-parted, 

 hairy and green outside, 1-3 on slender flowering-stem 2-10 

 in. tall. Leaves basal, threadlike, 3-12 in. long. Pinelands. 

 Blooming most abundantly in winter and spring. Fla. to Ga. 

 and Miss. 



Hjrpoxis hirsuta. Flowers similar to above, slightly smaller. 

 Leaves linear, hairy, not threadlike, 4-15 in. long. Dry 

 soil. Fla. to Texas and northward. 



