GENUS 14. 



BUNCH-FLOWER FAMILY. 



495 



2. Veratrum Woodii Robbins. Wood's 

 False Hellebore. Fig. 1238. 



Veratrum Woodii Robbins in Wood, Classbook, Ed. 



4i, 557- 1855. 



Rootstock short, erect. Stem slender, 2-5 

 tall ; leaves mostly basal, oblong or oblanceolate, 

 often i long, 2'-.).' wide, narrowed into sheath- 

 ing petioles about as long as the blade; upper 

 leaves small and linear-lanceolate ; panicle open, 

 i-2 long, its branches ascending; pedicels 

 shorter than the perianth, about as long as the 

 bracts; flowers 6"-S" broad, purple; perianth- 

 segments oblanceolate, obtuse, nearly or quite 

 glabrous, entire, little longer than the stamens; 

 ovary pubescent when young, becoming glabrous; 

 capsule 6"-8" long, few-seeded. 



In dry woods and on hills, southern Indiana to 

 Missouri. Indian poke-weed. June-July. 



3. Veratrum parviflorum S. Wats. Small- 

 flowered Veratrum. Fig. 1239. 



V. parviflorum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 250. 1803. 

 Melanthium parviflorum S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 

 14 : 276. 1879. 



Stem slender, 2-5 tall. Lower leaves broadly 

 oval or oblanceolate, acute, 4'-%' long, 1^-4' wide, 

 with narrow sheathing bases, the upper narrowly 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate; panicle i-2 long, 

 loose and open, its very slender branches di- 

 vergent or ascending; pedicels filiform, much 

 longer than the bracts, somewhat longer than the 

 perianth-segments ; flowers 4" -6" broad, green- 

 ish ; perianth-segments cblanceolate, glandless, 

 short-clawed or sessile; capsule 5 "-6" long, the 

 cavities 4-6-seeded ; seeds 3 "-4" long. 



Dry woods, mountains of Virginia to South Caro- 

 lina. June-Aug. 



Family 22. 



LILIACEAE Adans. Fam. PL 42. 1763. 



LILY FAMILY. 



Scapose or leafy-stemmed herbs from bulbs or conns, or rarely with root- 

 stocks or a woody caudex (Yucca}, the leaves various. Flowers solitary or 

 clustered, regular, mostly perfect. Perianth parted into 6 distinct or nearly dis- 

 tinct segments, or these more or less united into a tube, inferior, or partly superior 

 (Alctris). Stamens 6, hypogynous or borne on the perianth or at the bases of its 

 segments ; anthers 2-celled, mostly introrse, sometimes extrorse. Ovary 3-celled ; 

 ovules few or numerous in each cavity, anatropous or amphitropous ; styles united ; 

 stigma 3-lobed or capitate. Fruit a loculicidal capsule (septicidal'mCalochortus'), 

 or in Yucca sometimes fleshy and indehiscent. Embryo in copious endosperm. 



About 125 genera and 1300 species, widely distributed. 



* Plants bulbous, or with rootstocks, or fibrous-fleshy roots. 

 t Ovary superior, not adnate to the perianth. 

 Roots fibrous-fleshy ; scape tall ; flowers orange or yellow. 

 Low fleshy herb with a short rootstock ; flowers white. 

 Plants with bulbs or corms. 

 Flowers umbelled. 

 Perianth 6-parted. 



Odor characteristically onion-like ; ovules i or 2 in each cavity. 

 Odor not onion-like ; ovules several in each cavity. 

 Perianth funnelform, the tube about as long as the lobes. 

 Flowers solitary, racemed, corymbed or panicled. 

 Anthers not introrse. 



Perianth-segments all alike or nearly so ; capsule loculicidal. 

 Anthers versatile ; tall herbs. 

 Anthers not versatile ; low herbs. 



Hcincrocallis. 

 Leucocrinuin. 



Allium. 



Nothoscorduin. 

 Androstephium. 



6. Liliitm. 



