468 AMARYLLIDACE.E. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) 



3. CRINUM, L. 



Tube of the perianth crownless at the apex. Otherwise like Pancratium both 

 in character and habit. 



1. C. Amerieanum, L. Leaves strap-shaped, concave, obtuse, remotely 

 denticulate, spreading; Bcape compressed, with rounded edges, 2 - 4-flo wered ; 

 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 ; Btigma truncate, entire; 

 ovules 3 in eaeli cell, erect; capsule globose, membranaceous, indehiscent; 1-6- 

 seeded, pointed with the long persistent tube of the perianth ; seed huge, conn- 

 like; embryo oblong, in the axis of copious fleshy albumen ; radicle inferior. — 

 River-swamps, Florida, aud westward. May - Sept. Scape 1° - 2° 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-cellcd, loculicidally 3-valvcil, many-seeded. Seeds 

 flat, black and shining, attached to the central placenta?. — Scape braeted. 

 Leaves fleshy, spiny or cartilaginous on the margins. Flowers in simple or 

 panicled spikes, braeted. 



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, L. Star-grass. 



Perianth G-parted, persistent, the spreading divisions colored within. Stamens 

 short, unequal : anthers erect. Ovary 3-celled, with the numerous amphitropous 

 ovules attached to the central placentae 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 a lid. 

 Seeds globular, with a beak-like projection near the base. Radicle inferior — 

 Low pubescenl herbs, from a tuberous root, with grass-like haves, and a naked 

 n ape, bearing the few yellow flowers in a terminal braeted umbel. 



l. H. erecta, L. Hairy; leaves linear, channelled ; scapes l -4, filiform, 

 2 -4-flo wered ; bracts subulate, much shorter than the Blender unequal pedicels ; 

 divisions of the perianth oblong, greenish and hairy without, yellow within; cap 



Bule 8-Celled, — Varies, With the more rigid leaves nearly smooth, the 12-.'! How 



ered scape flattened, ami the bristle-like bracts longer than the nearly Bessile 



almost WOOlly perianth. — Low ground, Florida, and northward. March and 



April. — Scapes 2'-'.t' long. Leaves at length much longer than the scape. 

 Flowers 8" « ide. 



