LiLiACE.^. (lily family.) 607 



summit. Leaves 4-6, alternate, oblong-cordate, 5 -9-ribbed. Peduncles ax- 

 illary, few-flowered. Flowers small, greenish, on jointed nodding pedicels. 



1. C. pauciflora, Torr. — Shady woods, Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. 

 April. — Stem 6'- 12' high. Leaves 2' -4' long, thin, spreading. 



Order 153. LILiIACE^E. (Lily Family.) 



Chiefly herbs, with- sessile or sheathing parallel-nerved leaves, and 

 perfect flowers. — Perianth corolla-like, 6- (rarely 4-) leaved or lobed, 

 free from the 2-o-celled ovary. Stamens 6 (rarely 4), hypogynous 

 or perigynous : anthers introrse (except in No. 10). Styles united. 

 Stigmas 3, distinct or miited. Fruit a capsule or berry, few - many- 

 seeded. Seeds anatropous or amphitropous. Embryo small, in fleshy 

 or hard albumen. 



Synopsis. 



Tribe I. ASPARAGE^. Fruit a berry. Dhisions of the perianth more or less 

 united (except No. 4). — Leaves broad. 



1. POLYGONATUM. Flowers axillary. Perianth tubular. Stems leafy. 



2. SMIL.\CINA. Flowers in a terminal raceme. Perianth spreading. Stems leafy. 



3. CONVALLARIA. Flowers racemed. Perianth C-lobed. Scape naked. 



4. CLINTONIA. Flowers umbelled. Perianth Cleaved. Scape naked. 



Tribe II. ASPHODELE.^. Fruit a capsule. Divisions of the perianth united at 

 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. 



7. CAMASSIA. Flowers racemed. Style slender. Capsule few-seeded. 



* * Root a tuberous rhizoma. 



8. SCHCENOLIRION. Flowers racemed, white. Seeds smooth and black. Leaves 



equitant. 



Tribe III. TULIPACE^. Fruit a cap.sule. Divisions of the perianth distinct, de- 

 ciduous. — Stems leafy. 



« Bulbous-rooted herbs. Seeds pale. 



9. ERYTHRONIUM. Seeds ovoid, with a membranaceous appendage at the apex. Stem 



2-leaved. 



10. LILIUM. Seed flat, winged, not appendaged. Stem many-leaved. 



* ♦ Palm-like arborescent plants. Seeds black. 



11. YUCCA. Stigmas 3, nearly sessile. Capsule dry or pulpy. Leaves spmy-pointed. 



1. POLYGONATUM, De.sf. Solomon's Skal. 



Perianth tubular, 6-cleft. Stamens 6, inserted on the middle of the tube, 

 included : anthers sagittate, fixed at the base. Ovary 3-celled, with .3-6 ovules 

 in each cell. Style slender: .stigma obtuse. Berry few-seeded. — l»hizoma 

 creeping. Stem simjde, leafy. Leaves oval or oblong. Peduncles axillary, 

 1 -few-flowered. Flowers drooping, on bractless pedicels, greenish. 



1. P. giganteum, Dietrich. Smooth; stem tall (3° -8° high), curving; 

 leaves ovate, partly clasping, many-nerved ; peduncles 3 - .5 flowered, the lower 



