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480 LILIACEZ. (LILY FAMILY.) 
from a slender creeping rhizoma. Stem simple, sheathed at the base, leafy at 
the summit. Leaves 4-6, alternate, oblong-cordate, 5-9-ribbed. Peduncles 
few-flowered. Flowers small, greenish, on jointed nodding pedicels, which are 
thickened upward. 
1. C. pauciflora, Torr. — Shady woods, Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. 
April. — Stem 6' - 12! high. Leaves 2' — 4’ long, thin, spreading. 
Orper 151. LILIACEZE. (Liy Famtty.) 
Chiefly herbs, with sessile or sheathing parallel-nerved leaves, and per- 
fect flowers. — Perianth corolla-like, 6- (rarely 4-) leaved or lobed, free 
from the 2—3-celled ovary. Stamens 6 (rarely 4), hypogynous or perigy- 
nous: anthers introrse (except in No. 9). Styles united. Stigmas,3, 
distinct or united. Fruit a capsule or berry, few — many-seeded. Seeds 
anatropous or amphitropous. Embryo small, in fleshy or hard albumen. 
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Synopsis. à 
Tes I. ASPARAGEJE. Fruit a berry. Divisions of the perianth more or less 
united (except No. 4). — Leaves broad. 
. 1. POLYGONATUM. Flowers axillary. Perianth tubular. Stems leafy. 
2. SMILACINA. Flowers ina terminal raceme. Perianth spreading. Stems leafy. 
3. CONVALLARIA. Flowers racemed. Perianth 6-lobed. Scape naked. 
4. CLINTONIA. Flowers umbelled. Perianth 6-leaved. Scape naked. 
Tame Il. ASPHODELEAE. Fruita capsule. Divisions of the perianth united ot 
the base. —Stems scape-like. Leaves linear, rarely lanceolate. 
+ Root a coated bulb. 
5. ALLIUM. Flowers umbelled, from a scarious spathe. Seeds smooth and black. 
6 NOLINA. Flowers racemed, white. Stigmas 3, Seeds roughened, brown. 
: * * Root a tuberous rhizoma. 
*. SOHXENOLIRION. Flowersracemed, white, Seeds smooth and black. Leaves equitante 
Tame IIL "TULIPACEJE. Fruita capsule. Divisions of the perianth distinet, de- 
ciduous. — Stems leafy. 
* Bulbous-rooted herbs, Seeds pale. Stem 
8. ERYTHRONIUM. Seeds ovoid, with a membranaceous appendage at the aper. 
2-leaved. 
9. LILIUM. Seed flat, winged, not appendaged. Stem many-leaved. 
j * * Palm-like arborescent plants. Seeds black. 
10. YUCCA. Stigmas 3, nearly sessile. Capsule dry or pulpy. Leaves spiny-pointed- 
L POLYGONATUM, Desf. 
in each cell. Style slender: stigma obtuse. Berry few-seéded: — Rhizom* 
creeping. Stem. simpl T i 
, leafy. Leaves oval or oblong. Peduneles # 
