468 AMARYLLIDACES. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) 
3. CRINUM, L. 
Tube of the perianth crownless at the apex. Otherwise like Pancratium both 
in character and habit. 
1. C. Americanum, L. Leaves strap-shaped, concave, obtuse, remotely 
denticulate, spreading; scape compressed, with rounded edges, 2-4-flowered ; 
bracts lanceolate recurved; ovaries sessile, with a linear bractlet at the base of 
each; flowers large, fragrant; leaves of the perianth white, lanceolate, shorter 
than the green tube; filaments and style purple above ; stigma truncate, entire ; 
ovules 3 in each cell, erect; capsule globose, membranaceous, indehiscent; 1+ 6- 
seeded, pointed with the long persistent tube of the perianth ; seed large, corm- 
like; embryo oblong, in the axis of copious fleshy albumen; radicle inferior. — 
River-swamps, Florida, and westward. May Sept. -Scape 19-29 high, Peri- 
anth 6! - 8! long. 
4. AGAVE, L. 
Perianth corolla-like, funnel-shaped, 6-parted, persistent. Stamens exserted : 
anthers linear, versatile. Style filiform, exserted : stigma 3-angled or 3-lobed. 
Capsule coriaceous, 3-lobed, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved, many-seeded. Seeds 
flat'black and shining, attached to the central placentæ.— Scape bracted. 
Leaves fleshy, spiny or cartilaginous on the margins. Flowers in simple or 
panicled spikes, bracted. 
1. A. Virginica, L. Leaves lanceolate, thick and rigid, spine-pointed, 
denticulate on the margins; scape simple, smooth; flowers small, yellowish, 
scattered in a simple spike ; perianth strongly nerved ; filaments and style spotted. 
— Sterile soil, Florida, and northward. July.— Scape 3°-5° high. Leaves 
6’~12' long. Capsule globose, 3-lobed. 
5. HYPOXYS, E STAR-GRASS. 
Perianth 6-parted, persistent, the spreading divisions colored within. Stamens 
short, unequal : anthers erect. Ovary 3-celled, with the numerous amphitropous 
ovules attached to the central placentz in two rows. Style short and thick : 
stigmas 3. Capsule top-shaped, many-seeded, opening transversely near the 
summit, the upper portion, with the withered perianth, falling off like 2 lid. 
Seeds globular, with a beak-like projection near the base. Radicle inferior. — . 
Low pubescent herbs, from a tuberous root, with grass-like leaves, and & naxe 
scape, bearing the few yellow flowers in a terminal bracted umbel. 
1. H. erecta, L. Hairy; leaves linear, channelled ; seapes 1 -4, filiform, 
2 — 4-flowered ; bracts subulate, much shorter than the slender unequal pedicels ; 
divisions of the perianth oblong, greenish and hairy without, yellow within; CaP” 
sule 8-celled. — Varies, with the more rigid leaves nearly smooth, the 2-3-flow- 
ered scape flattened, and the bristlelike bracts longer than the nearly sees 
almost woolly perianth. —Low ground, Florida, and northward. March ane 
-9' long. Leaves at length much longer than the SCW^ 
