480 LILIACEiE. (LILY FAMILY.) 



from a slender creeping rhi/.oma. Stem simple, sheathed at the hase, leafy at 

 the sammit. 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. 



Order 151. LILIACEiE. (Lily Family.) 



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

 fecl (lowers. — Perianth corolla-like, 6- (rarely 4-) leaved or lobed, free 

 from the 2-3-celled ovary. Stamens 6 (rarely 4), hypogy nous 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. 



Synopsis. 



Tribe I. ASPARAGE.3E. Fruit a berry. Divisions of the perianth more or less 

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

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

 •J. BMILACLNA. Flowers in a terminal raceme. Perianth spreading. Stems leafy. 

 8. CONVALLARIA. Flowers racemed. Perianth Globed. Scape naked. 

 4. CLIXTONIA. Flowers umbelled. Perianth G-leaved. Scape naked. 



Truie II. ASPHODELE^E. 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. NOL1NA. Flowers racemed, white. Stigmas 3. Seeds roughened, brown. 



» * Root a tuberous rhizoma. 



7. BCHQJNOLIRION. Flowers racemed, white. Seeds smooth and black. Leaves equitant. 



Tiuiik III. TUI.iIPACE.3E. Fruit a capsule. Divisions of the perianth distinct, de- 

 ■ .us. — Stems leafy. 



* Bulbous-rooted herbs. Seeds pale. 



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



- lenved. 



9. LILIb'M. Seed flat, winged, not appendaged. Stem immv-leaved. 



» # Palm-like arborescent plants. Seeds black. 

 10. YUCCA. Stigmas 3, nearly sessile. Capsule dry or pulpy. Leaves spiny-pointed. 



1. POLYGONATUM, Deaf. 



Perianth tabular, 6 deft. Btamens f>, inserted on the middle of the tube, in- 

 claded: anthers sagittate, fixed at the base. Ovary 8-celled, with 3-6 ovules 

 in each celL Style slender: stigma obtuse. Berry few-seeded. — Rhizoma 

 creeping, stem simple, leafy. Leaves oval or oblong. Peduncles axillary, 

 1 -few-flowered. Flowers drooping, <>n bractlesa pedicels. 



