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ELEMENTS OF BOTANY. 



scattered and clasping above ; flowers 2-ranked in a compound woolly 

 cyme, pedicels bracted ; perianth woolly without, yellow and smooth 

 within ; capsule as long as the pedicels, the valves separating from 

 the placentae, seeds black. June-September. Swamps and wet 

 places. 



17. AMARYLLIDACE^. AMARYLLIS FAMILY. 



Perennial herbs with a bulbous or tuberous root, mostly 

 succulent ; leaves narrow ; flowers perfect, often showy, peri- 

 anth 6-parted, the segments united below to form a tube 

 which is partly or wholly adherent to the ovary ; stamens 6, 

 opposite the perian-th lobes, anthers versatile or introrse ; 

 ovary 3-celled, few- or many-ovuled, style single, filiform, 

 entire or lobed ; fruit a capsule or rarely fleshy, valvular or 

 indehiscent. 



Plants from bulbs. 



Scape 1-flowered I. Amaryhis. 



Scape several-flowered. 



Flowers with a membranous crown . II. Hymenocallis. 



Flowers crownless III. Crinum. 



Plants from rootstocks. 



Flowers in spikes IV. Agave. 



Flowers in umbels V. Hypoxis. 



Flowers in panicles .... VI. Lophiola. 



I. AMARYLLIS. 



Acaulescent, from a coated bulb; leaves linear, fleshy; 

 scape erect, 1-few-flowered ; flowers large, erect, or declined, 

 subtended by a 1-2-leaved spathe ; perianth 6-parted, naked 

 in the throat, tube short, segments petal-like, spreading; 

 stamens free, anthers versatile ; ovary 3-celled, many-ovuled, 

 style elongated, declined, stigma 3-cleft ; fruit a many-seeded, 

 3-valved capsule, seeds black, compressed, or angled. 



A. Atamasco L. Atamasco Lily. Bulbs about 1 in. in diameter; 

 leaves narrow, concave above, glabrous, usually longer than the scape ; 

 scape 6-12 in. high, 1-flowered ; spathe 1-leaved, 2 cleft ; flowers 2-3 



