516 AMARYLLIDACE^. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) 



1. ZEPHYRANTHES, Herb. 



Perianth funnel-form, from a tubular base ; the 6 divisions petal-like and 

 similar, spreading above; the 6 stamens inserted in its naked throat; anthers 

 versatile. Pod membranaceous, 3-lobed. — Leaves and low scape from a coated 

 bulb. Flowers solitary from a scarious simple bract. (From ^€(pvpos, a wind. 

 and &vQos,fower.) 



1. Z. Atam&SCO, Herb. (Atamasco Lily.) Leaves bright green and 

 shining, very narrow, channelled, the margins acute; scape 6-12' high; pe- 

 duncle short ; spathe 2-cleft at the apex ; perianth white and pink, 3' long ; 

 stamens and style declined. — Penn. to Va. and Fla. June. 



2. HYMENOCALLIS, Salisb. 



Perianth with a long and slender tube, and an equal 6-parted limb ; lobes 

 long and narrow, recurved ; the throat bearing a tubular or cup-shaped corol- 

 like delicate crown, which connects the bases of the 6 exserted stamens. An- 

 thers linear, versatile. Capsule thin, 2 -3-lobed; seeds usually 2 in each cell, 

 basal, fleshy, often like bulblets. — Scapes and leaves from a coated bulb. 

 Flowers white, fragrant, large and showy, sessile in an umbel-like head or 

 cluster, subtended by 2 or more scarious bracts. (Xame composed of vij.i\v, a 

 membrane, and KdWos, beaut i/.) 



1. H. OCeidentalis, Kunth. Leaves strap-shaped, glaucous, 1 - U°long, 

 9-18" broad ; scape 3 - 6-flowered ; bracts narrow, 2' long ; perianth-tube about 

 2^-4' long, the linear segments scarcely shorter; the crown 12- L5" long, 

 tubular below, broadly funnel-form above, the margin deltoid and entire, or 

 2-toothed and erose, between the white filaments, which are twice longer; 

 anthers yellow; style green. — Marshy banks of streams, S. 111. to N. Ga. 

 and Ala. — Apparently distinct from H. lacera, Salisb. (Pancratium rotatum, 

 Ker), of the southern coast. 



3. AGAVE, L. American Aloe. 



Perianth tubular-funnel-form, persistent, 6-parted ; the divisions nearly equal, 

 narrow. Stamens 6 ; anthers linear, versatile. Capsule coriaceous, many- 

 seeded. Seeds flattened. — Leaves thick and fleshy, often with cartilaginous 

 or spiny teeth, clustered at the base of the many-flowered scape, from a thick 

 fibrous-rooted crown. (Name from dyav-fi, noble, — not inappropriate as applied 

 to A. Ameiucana, the Century-plaxt.) 



1. A. Virginica, L. (False Aloe.) Herbaceous; leaves entire or 

 denticulate ; scape 3 - 6° high ; flowers scattered in a loose wand-like spike, 

 greenish-yelloAV, fragrant, the perianth 9-12" long, its narrow tube twice 

 longer than the erect lobes. — Dry or rocky banks, ^Nld. and Va. to Fla., west to 

 S. Ind., Mo., and Tex. 



4. HYPfixiS, L. Star-grass. 



Perianth persistent, 6-parted, spreading ; the 3 outer divisions a little herba 

 ceous outside. Stamens 6 ; anthers sagittate, erect. Capsule crowned with 

 the withered or closed perianth, not opening by valves. Seeds globular, with 

 a crustaceons coat, ascending, imperfectly anatropous, the rhaphe not adherent 



