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LILIACE-E. (LILY FAMILY.) 
gharries of Penn., and southward. June. — Flowers half as large as 
in the last, nearly white speckled with purple. 
ConvallAria majalis, L., the well-known Lily of the Valley, 
is wild in the Alleghanies of Virginia, and is to be sought in those of 
Pennsylvania. 
Tribe II. ASPIIOD^LE^E. The Asphodel Tribe. 
5. HEMEROCALLIS, L. Day Lily. 
Perianth funnel-form, lily-like; the short tube inclosing the 
ovary, the spreading limb 6-parted ; the 6 stamens inserted on its 
throat. Filaments and style long and thread-like, declined and 
ascending : stigma simple. Pod rather fleshy, 3-angled, 3-valved, 
with several black spherical seeds in each cell. —Showy perenni¬ 
als, with fleshy-fibrous roots, the long and linear keeled leaves 2- 
ranked at the base of the tall scapes which bear at the summit 
several bracted large yellow flowers: these collapse and decay 
after expanding for a single day (whence the name, from fj^pa, 
a day , and ko\\os, beauty). 
1. H. fa'llva, L. (Common Day Lily.) Inner divisions (pe¬ 
tals) of the tawny orange perianth wavy and obtuse. — Escaped from 
gardens, where it is common, and sparingly naturalized in damp 
grounds, Penn., &c. July. 
H. flava, L., the Yellow Day Lily, is commonly cultivated. 
The White and the Blue Day Lilies of the gardens are species o 
Funkia , a very different genus. 
6. ORNITHOG ALUM, Tourn. Star-of-Bethlehem. 
Perianth of 6 colored (white) spreading sepals, several-nerved. 
Filaments 6, flattened-awl-shaped. Style 3-sided: stigma 3-an¬ 
gled. Pod membranous, roundish-angular, with few dark and 
roundish seeds in each cell. — Scape and linear channelled leaves 
from a coated bulb. Flowers corymbed, bracted. (An ancient 
whimsical name from opvis , a bird , and yriAa, milk.) 
I. O. umbellatuin, L. Flowers 5-8, on long and spread 
ing pedicels ; sepals green in the middle outside. — Moist meadows, 
naturalized near the coast. June. — Scape 5 f -7 r high. 
7. SCILLA, L. Squill. 
Perianth of 6 colored (blue or purple) spreading sepals, mostly 
deciduous; the 6 awl-shaped filaments at their base. Style thread- 
