MONOCOTYLEDONS. 



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style 1, stigmas 3, distinct or united ; fruit a capsule or berry, 

 few-many-seeded. 



Plants from fibrous roots. 

 Stem herbaceous. 

 Flowers in corymbs or jianicles 

 Flowers in spikes . 

 Stem woody .... 

 Plants from corms 

 Plants from bulbs. 

 Bulbs coated. 



Flowers in umbels . 

 Flowers in corymbs 

 Bulbs scaly. 

 Flowers solitary or in corymbs 

 Flowers in spikes . 



I. Hemerocallis. 



VII. Aletris. 



VIII. Yucca. 



V. Erythronium. 



II. Allium. 



VI. Oniithogalum. 



IV. Lilium. 



III. llyacintlius. 



I. HEMEROCALLIS. 



Perennial, from a fascicle of fleshy roots ; stem erect, 

 branched, glabrous ; leaves mostly basal and linear ; flowers 

 on brandling scapes, large, yellow or orange, solitary or 

 corymbed, perianth funnelform with a spreading limb mucli 

 longer than the tube ; stamens 6, inserted in the top of the 

 tube, shorter than the lobes, curved upward ; ovary 3-celled, 

 many-ovuled, style longer than the stamens, curved upward, 

 stigma capitate ; fruit a 3-celled, 3-angled capsule. 



II. FULVA L. Day Lily. Scapes stout, branclied above, with 

 a few bract-like leaves, smooth, ii-.5 ft. liigh ; leaves very long, 

 straiKshaped, acute, channeled ; Howers siiort-jiedicelod, tawny-yellow, 

 perianth lobes oblong, netted-veiiiod, flowers lasting only one day. 

 May-June. Introduced from Asia and connnon in old gardens. 



II. ALLIUM. 



Acaulescent her])s from coated bulbous roots with the 

 characteristic odor of onions; bulbs solitary or clustered; 

 leaves narrowly linear or sl{Muler-t\d)ular, glaucous ; flowers 

 in terminal umbels on naked scapes, tlie umbels often bracted 

 or enclosed in a sj);ithe, flowers small on slender ])(Mlieels, 

 ])eriantli (>-f>;irt('d. jtei'sistent ; stamens (I, inserted on the base 



