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3-5-nerved, exceeding the stamens. Style short. Capsule de 

 pressed globose, deeply-lobed. Seeds subglobose, shining. Stem 

 naked, scaly and thickened at base, from a thick rootstock. 

 Leaves rather rigid, few-nerved, very narrow, flat. Pedicels 

 slender, exceeding the flowers and bracts. Atlantic States. 



14. Hastingsia. Flowers white or greenish, in densely many- 

 flowered sparingly panicled racemes, the perianth lax and scari- 

 ous ; segments closely 3- (apparently 1-) nerved, equalling the 

 stamens. Style short. Ovary oblong-ovate, not deeply lobed. 

 Stem naked or sparingly leafy, from a tunicated bulb. Leaves 

 broader and more fleshy. Pedicels stout, much shorter than the 

 flower and bract. California. 



15. Chlorogalum. Flowers white or pinkish, in loose paniculate 

 racemes ; perianth at length twisted over the ovary ; segments 

 distinctly 3-nerved. Style long, deciduous. Seeds blackish, 

 somewhat rugose. Bulbs with membranous or densely fibrous 

 coats. Leaves with undulate margins. California. 



Tribe V. Odontostomeae. Flowers small, on solitary bracteolate not 

 jointed pedicels in an open panicle ; the stem leafy at base, from a fibrous- 

 coated conn : perianth salver-form, deciduous : stamens on the throat ; anthers 

 subglobose, basifixed, dehiscent at the summit : style deciduous. 



16. Odontostomum. Flowers yellowish, the cylindrical 12-nerved 

 tube about equalling the at length reflexed 5-nerved segments. 

 Stamens very short, alternating with as many small linear stami- 

 nodia. Capsule triangular-obovate, 3-lobed ; cells (2-ovuled) 

 1 -seeded. Seeds obovate, with dark brown testa. California. 



Tribe VI. Convallarieae. Flowers on jointed pedicels in terminal racemes 

 or racemose panicles or in axillary fascicles, upon leafy simple stems (or a 

 naked scape in Convallaria) from creeping rootstocks : perianth G-cleft or of 

 4 or 6 distinct 1-nerved small glandless segments : style short, usually some- 

 what persistent ; stigma slightly lobed : fruit a globose berry : seeds 1 to several 

 in each cell, ascending or horizontal, subglobose, with close thin testa. Stem 

 naked below (scarious-sheathed at base) : leaves cordate to lanceolate. 



* Perianth gamophyllous, campanulate or cylindrical, at length deciduous. 



17. Convallaria. Acaulescent. Flowers white, campanulate, cleft 

 to the middle, on recurved pedicels with small lanceolate bracts, 

 in a simple one-sided raceme upon a slender curved scape. Sta- 

 mens near the base ; anthers ovate-oblong, sub-basifixed. Style 

 stout, persistent ; stigma triangular : ovules 2 or 3 pairs in each 

 cell. Berries red, usually 6-seeded. Leaves 2 or 3, the long 

 petioles convolute and stem-like. 



