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LILIACE2E. (LILY FAMILY.) 
Synopsis, 
Tribe 1. ASPARAGEA2.— Fruit a few-seeded berry, 2 - 3-celI- 
ed. Seeds amphitropous, orthotropous, or rarely anatropous. 
Not bulbous : rootstocks creeping or tuberous. 
* Stems branching, very leafy. Seeds amphitropous. 
1. Asparagus. Perianth 6-parted. Leaves thread-like or bristle- 
form. Pedicels of the axillary flowers jointed in the middle. 
* * Stem simple, leafy. Seeds orthotropous. 
2. Polygonatum. Perianth tubular, 6-cleft, bearing the stamens 
above the middle. Flowers axillary. 
3. Smilacina. Perianth 4-6-parted, spreading, the stamens borne 
at the base. Flowers in a raceme. 
* * * Scape naked. Seeds anatropous. 
4. Clintonia. Perianth 6-sepalled. Stamens hypogynous. Flow¬ 
ers umbelled. 
Tribe 2. ASPHODELE.dE. — Fruit a few - many-seeded pod, 3- 
celled, loculicidal. Seeds anatropous or amphitropous. 
* Not bulbous. Perianth united in a tube below. 
5. Hemerocallis. Perianth funnel-form. Stamens declined. 
* * Bulbous: scape simple. Perianth 6-sepalled or 6-parted. 
6. Ornithogalum. Flowers corymbed. Style 3-sided. 
7. Scilla. Flowers racemed. Style thread-like. 
8. Allium. Flowers umbelled, from a spathe. Sepals 1-nerved. 
Tribe 3. TULIPACEdE. — Fruit a many-seeded 3-celled loculi¬ 
cidal pod. Seeds anatropous. Perianth 6-leaved. Bulbous. 
9. Lilium. Stem leafy. Pod oblong. Seeds vertically flattened. 
10. Erythronium. Scape naked, 1-flowered. Pod obovate-triangu- 
lar: seeds ovoid. 
Tribe I. ASPARAGK3E. The Asparagus Tribe. 
I. ASPARAGUS, L. Asparagus. 
Perianth 6-parted, spreading above: the 6 stamens at their base. 
Style short: stigma 3-lobed. Berry spherical, 3-celled ; the cells 
2-seeded. — Perennials, with much-branched stems from thick 
and matted rootstocks, narrow leaves in clusters, and small green¬ 
ish-yellow axillary flowers. (The ancient Greek name.) 
1. A. officinalis* (Garden Asparagus.) Herbaceous ; 
bushy-branched; leaves thread-like. — Escaped from gardens, natu¬ 
ralized on the coast in the vicinity of salt water, near New York. 
June. 
