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LILIACE. 



[Endoge.ns. 



Order LXII, LILIACE.E.— Lilyworts. 



Lilia, Juss. Gen. 48. (1789).— Narcissi, the first sect. Ibid. 54. (1789).— Hemerocallideae, R. Brown 

 Prodr. 295. (1810).— Liliaceae, DC. Theor. El^m. 1. 249. (1813) ; Endl. Gen. Iv. ; Meisner, p. 398 ; 

 Kttnth, Entim. 4. 215 ; Ann. sc. 2. ser. 18. 290.— TulipaccEe, DC. Ess. Med. 297. (1816) ; Bernh. in 

 Botan. Zeit. Oct. 1835.— Coronari8e, Agardh Aphor. 165. (1S23).— Asparagi a«d Aspliodeli, Juss. 

 (1789).— Asphodeleae, R. Brown Prodr. 275. (1810) ; Kiinth, Enum. 4. 280.— Alliacese, Aloinse, 

 IlyacinthinsB, DracaenaceEe, Link Handb, vol. 1. (1829). — Asparagiuae. lb. — Asparagese, DC. and 

 Dubi/,45S. (182S).— Asparagineae, Ach. Rich. Diet. Class 2. 20. (1822); Aoitv. EUm. ed. 4. 430. 

 (1828).— Convallariacese, LinJi Handb. 184. (1829.) 



DiAG.vosis. — L'dial Eiidogens lolth a naked perianth, fiat when witlieinng, anthers turned 

 imcards, consolidated styles, and fleshy albumen. 

 Herbaceous plants, shrubs or trees, with bulbs, or tubers, or rhizomes, or fibrous 

 roots. Leaves narrow, \dt\\ parallel veins, only in a very small number e.xpanded into 

 a broad blade with diverging veins ; . . ^ 



never articulated \At\\ the stem. Flow- 

 ers large and showy, or small and 

 green, with all kinds of intei-mediate 

 gradations ;m nearly all cases ^ ; never, 

 perhaps, truly $ $ \ Calyx and corolla 

 confounded, colom'ed alike, regular or 

 nearly so, occasionally cohering m a 

 tube. Stamens 6, inserted into the 

 sepals and petals. Anthers opening 

 inwards. Ovary free, 3-celled, many- 

 seeded ; style 1 ; stigma simple, or 

 3-lobed ; o\'xiles anatropal or amphi- 

 tropal. Fmit succiUent, or diy and 

 capsular, 3-celled. Seeds packed one 

 upon another in 1 or 2 rows ; embryo 

 with the same du'ection as the seed, m 

 the axis of fleshy albumen, or uncer- 

 tain in direction and position, occa- 

 sionally vei-y mmute. 



The beautiful creations which con- 

 stitute the Order of Lihes would seem 

 to be well known to all the world ; for 

 what have been so long admbed and 

 vmiversally cultivated as they ? Never- 

 theless, there are few great gi'oups of 

 plants which have been more neglected 

 by the exact botanist, or 

 which stand more in need 

 of his patient attention. 

 The best proof of the 

 justice of this assertion is 

 to be foimd in the unsteady 

 and conflicting views of 

 botanists as to its limits, 

 or the subordinate gi-oups pig CXXWI 

 which it contains. While 



Fig. cxxxvn. 



Zl^Z^^ r''^'^ Ldyworts up into a number of distinct Orders, another refuses to re- 

 cognise the hmus assigned to them by his predecessor, and prefers a new arrangement, 



Jussi:: and^Brol'T "" v'^f ^ '' T''''^'' ^' ''^'' -^ ^he classifica^tion o 

 dussicu and Biovnti break down beneath a rigorous scrutmy ; it has been succeeded 



uLlS'tLt "d 7l VTT '""*^^' ''^^^""' ^^^-"h-^i -d others, Tahke 

 EaSerilt i'and \"f\ ""^'f'"'' 7' '^" ^" ''^^^ ^^^^ *^ ^''^'' ^^«^'^ ''^'^^^^t the true 

 did tweM veni^^^^^ '"''' f ^ T^' ^^"^^ proportion of this Order, than we 



did t^^ent;^ ^eai-s ago. Genera m plenty have been added, b ut a good combination of 



Fif ■ CXXxVir^" f v?.!"" °l'''^ °^ Asphodelus ramosus : 2. of Tulipa hortensis. 



