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8. Amianthium. Flowers perfect, racemed. Perianth free from 
the ovary, shorter than the stamens. 
* * Anthers 2-celled : pod loculicidal: flowers racemed or spiked. 
9. Xerophyllum. Flowers perfect. Cells of the globose-3-lobed 
pod 2-seeded. Leaves rush-like, rigid. 
10. Helonias. Flowers perfect. Cells of the globose-3-lobed pod 
many-seeded. Leaves lanceolate. Scape naked. 
11. Cham^lirium. Flowers dioecious. Pod oblong, many-seeded. 
* * * Anthers 2-celled, innate or introrse : pod septicidal. 
12. Tofieldia. Flowers perfect: spike racemed. Leaves equitant. 
Suborder I. UVULARIEiE. The Bellwort Family. 
1. PYPLABIA, L. Bellwort. 
Perianth nearly bell-shaped, lily-like ; the sepals spatulate-lan- 
ceolate, with a honey-bearing groove or pit at the erect contracted 
base, much longer than the stamens, which barely adhere to their 
base. Anthers long and linear, adnate : filaments short. Style 
deeply 3-cleft; the divisions stigmatic along the inner side. Pod 
triangular or 3-lobed, 3-valved from the top. Seeds few in each 
cell, obovoid, with a tumid or fungous raphe. — Rootstock creep¬ 
ing. Flowers pale yellow, nodding, solitary or rarely in pairs, on 
terminal peduncles which become lateral by the growth of the 
branches. (Name “ from the flowers hanging like the uvula , or 
palate.”) 
* Leaves clasping-'perfoliate: sepals acute : pod obovate-truncate, diver¬ 
gently 3-lobed at the lop. 
1. U. grandifldra, Smith. (Large-flowered Bellwort.) 
Leaves oblong or elliptical-ovate, pale and obscurely pubescent un¬ 
derneath *, sepals smooth within ; anthers nearly pointless ; lobes of tbe 
pod with convex sides. — Rich woods, Vermont to Wisconsin and 
northward. May, June. — Flowers pale greenish-yellow, long. 
2. u. perfoliata, L. (Smaller Bellwort.) Leaves ovate 
or oblong-lanceolate, smooth, glaucous underneath ; sepals granular- 
roughened inside ,* anthers pointed ; lobes of the pod with concave 
sides._Moist copses, common eastward and southward. May. 
Smaller than No. 1: flowers pale yellow, |' to 1' long. 
* * Leaves sessile: sepals rather obtuse : pod ovoid-triangular, with 
sharp and wing-like angles. 
3. U. sessilitolia, L. (Sessile-leaved Bellwort.) Low, 
smooth ; leaves oval or lanceolate-oblong, pale, glaucous underneath ; 
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