480 AMARYLLIDACEiE. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) 
— Stemless small herbs, with grassy and hairy linear leaves and 
slender few-flowered scapes from a solid bulb. (Name com¬ 
posed of V7ro, beneath , and o£vs, sharp , it is thought because 
the pod is acute at the base.) — The peculiarity of the seeds, 
which are not well described by Lindley and Endlicher , and which 
result from almost perfectly anatropous ovules, is of no ordinal 
consequence. 
1. II. erecta, L. Leaves linear, grass-like, longer than the 
umbellately 1 -4-flowered scape ; divisions of the perianth hairy and 
greenish outside, yellow within. — Meadows and open woods, com¬ 
mon. July. — Scape 4 1 - 6 7 high. 
The Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis), the Snow-Flake (Leuc6- 
jum vernum), the Narcissus (N. poeticus), Jonquil (N. Jonquil- 
la), and Daffodil (N. Pseudo-Narcissus), are familiar representa¬ 
tives of this order in our gardens. 
Order 117. HiEMODORACEiE. (Bloodwort Faw.) 
Herbs , with fibrous roots , usually equitant leaves , and 
perfect 3 - 6-androus regular flowers , which are woolly or 
scurfy outside ; the tube of the 6-lobed perianth coherent 
with the whole surface , or with merely the lower part , of 
the 3-celled ovary. — Anthers introrse. Style single, some¬ 
times 3-partible. Pod crowned or inclosed by the persist- 
tent perianth, 3-celled, loculicidal, 3 — many-seeded. Em¬ 
bryo small, in hard or fleshy albumen. 
*** *^ le character by which Endlicher distinguishes this family from the fore¬ 
going, viz., by having the 3 cells of the ovary opposite the inner divisions of the 
perianth, is not true of either of the following genera. Yet, in Lophiola and 
Aletns, the 3 stigmas, as well as the 3 divisions into which the style splits at matu¬ 
rity, are indeed thus situated : but they stand over the partitions ! instead of the 
cells, and therefore exactly surmount the valves of the loculicidal pod. 
Synopsis. 
* Ovary wholly inferior: style filiform : seeds peltate, amphitropous. 
1. Lachnanthes. Stamens 3, exserted : anthers versatile. 
* * Ovary free all but the base : style 3-partible: seeds anatropous. 
2. Lophiola. Stamens 6, inserted near the base of the woolly 6- 
cleft perianth. 
3. Aletris. Stamens 6, inserted in the throat of the warty-rough- 
ened and tubular 6-toothed perianth. Leaves flat. 
