100 FLOE A OF PHILADELPHIA. 



Family 3, LILIACEAE Adans. Lily Family. 



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

 Ovary superior, not adnate to the perianth. 



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



1. Hemcrocallis. 

 Plants with bulbs or corms. 



Flowers umbelled. 2. Allium. 



Flowers solitary, racenied, corymbed or panicled. 

 Anthers not introrse. 



Anthers versatile; tall herbs. 3. Lilium. ' 



Anthers not versatile ; low herbs. 



Flowers nodding ; capsule obovoid ; seed glob- 

 ular. 4. Frythronium. 

 Flowers erect ; capsule columnar ; seed flat. 



5. Tulipa. 

 Anthers introrse. 



Perianth of 6 separate segments. 6. Ornithogalum. 

 Perianth globose, oblong or urn-shaped. 



7. Muscari. 

 Ovary half inferior; roots fibrous; flowers racemed. 8. Aletris. 

 Stem a woody caudex; leaves rigid, mostly bearing marginal fibres. 



9. ¥ucca. 



1. HEMEROCALLIS L. 

 1. HEMEROCALLIS FULVA L. Covimon Day-lily. M. p. 261. Meadows and 

 along streams, escaped from cultivation. Summer. 



2. ALLIUM L. Leek, Garlic, Onion. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, absent at flowering time. 1. A. tricoccum. 



Leaves linear, present at flowering time. 



Bulb-coats membranous, not fibrous reticulated. 



Flowering umbel nodding. 2. A. cernuum. 



Flowering umbel erect. 



Sepals not keeled; inner filaments toothed under the anthers. 



3. A. vineale. 



Sepals keeled; inner filaments not toothed. 4. A. carinatum. 



Bulb-coats fibrous-reticulated. 5. A. Canadense. 



1. Allium tricoccum Ait. M. p. 262. Eich woods. Early summer. 



P/iiZadei;^ /wo— Wissahickon (Je.) (Ee.). 2?wcis— Eidge Valley (Fr.). 

 Montgomery — ^\i&niaQn\\\\Q (Cr.), Sumneytown (VP.). Delaware — 

 Haverford, Valley of Darby Creek (B. Sm.), Aston (W. Tr.), Cheyney 

 (Ws.). Lancosfer— Peach Bottom (Ca.), Williston Twp, (Pr.). Berks— 

 (P.). Dauphin— (P.). 



Gloucester— S-we^eshoTo (Li.). SalemSulem (C), Woodstown (He.) 

 (Wa.). Mercer— Groveville (C). 



New CasfZe— Speakman's, Tatnall; Point Lookout, Mount Cuba, Com- 

 mons. 



2. Allium cernuum Eoth. M. p. 263. Banks and hillsides. Summer. 



Lancaster— York Furnace. 



3. Allium vineale L. M. p. 263. Moist meadows and fields. Early sum- 



mer. 



4. Allium carinatum L. M. p. 1046. Fields. 



Buck's- Grenoble, N. F. Arnold (Fr.). 



