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amaryllidacejs. (amaryllis family.) 
Order 116. AMARYLLIDACEiE. (Amaryllis Fam.) 
Chiefly bulbous and scape-bearing herbs, not scurfy or 
woolly, with linear flat root-leaves, and regular perfect 6- 
androus flowers, the tube of the 6-parted perianth coherent 
with the 3 -celled ovary. — Anthers introrse. Style single. 
Pod 3-celled, loculicidal, many-seeded. Seeds anatropous 
or nearly so, with a straight embryo in the axis of fleshy 
albumen. 
1. AMARYLLIS, L. Amaryllis. 
Perianth with the 6 divisions petal-like and similar; the 6 sta¬ 
mens inserted in its throat: anthers versatile. Pod membrana¬ 
ceous, 3-lobed. — Leaves and scape from a coated bulb. Flowers 
from a 1 - 2-leaved spathe. (A poetical name.) 
1. A. Atamasco, L. (Atamasco Lily.) Spathe tubular, 2- 
cieft, 1-flowered ; perianth funnel-shaped, white and pink; stamens 
and style declined.— Penn. ( Muhl .) and southward. June._Flower 
3' long, on a scape 6' high. 
2. AGAVE, L. American Aloe. 
Perianth tubular-funnel-form, persistent, 6-parted ; the divisions 
nearly equal, narrow. Stamens 6, soon exserted : anthers linear. 
Pod coriaceous. Seeds flattened. — Leaves thick and fleshy, 
often with cartilaginous or spiny teeth, clustered at the base of the 
many-flowered scape. (Name altered from dyav6 Sl wonderful , not 
inappropriate as applied to A. Americana, the Century-plant.) 
L A. Virglllica, L. (False Aloe.) Herbaceous; scape 
simple; the flowers scattered in a loose wand-like spike, greenish- 
yellow, very fragrant. — Dry or rocky banks, Penn. ? and southward 
Sept. — Scape 3P-6 3 high. 
HYP(iXYS, L. Star-grass. 
Perianth persistent, 6-parted, spreading, the 3 outer divisions a 
little herbaceous outside. Stamens 6 : anthers erect. Pod crown¬ 
ed with the withered or closed perianth, not opening by valves. 
eeds globular, with a crustaceous coat, ascending, imperfectly an¬ 
atropous, the raphe not adherent quite down to the micropyle, the 
seed-stalk thus forming a sort of lateral beak. Radicle inferior ! 
