410 MELANTHACEAE. 
4. Uvularia pubérula Michx. Mountain 
Bellwort. (Fig. 989.) 
Uvularia puberula Michx. F1. Bor. Am. 1: 199. 1803. 
Oakesta puberula S, Wats. Proc, Am. Acad. 14: 269. 1879. 
Stem rather stout, sparingly rough-pubescent with 
short hairs, at least on the forks. Leaves oblong, oval 
or ovate; rough-margined, firm and 14/—3/ long when 
mature, sessile, acute at the apex, obtuse, subcordate 
or sometimes narrowed at the base, shining, green on 
both sides, the midvein sometimes pubescent; flowers 
light yellow, about 1’ long; styles exceeding the 
stamens; capsule sharply 3-angled, acute at both ends, 
sessile or very nearly so on the short peduncle, 10’/— 
12’ long. 
In mountain woods, Virginia and West Virginia to 
South Carolina. Ascends to 5000 ft. in Virginia. May- 
June. 
Family 19. LILIACEAE Adans. Fam. Pl. : 42. 
LIny FAMILY. 
Scapose or leafy-stemmed herbs from bulbs or corms, or rarely with root- 
stocks or a woody caudex (4gave), the leaves various. Flowers solitary or 
clustered, regular, mostly perfect. Perianth parted into 6 distinct or nearly dis- 
tinct segments, or these more or less united into a tube, inferior or partly 
superior (4/efr7s). Stamens 6, hypogynous or borne on the perianth or at the 
bases of its segments; anthers 2-celled, mostly introrse, sometimes extrorse. 
Ovary 3-celled; ovules few or numerous in each cavity, anatropous or amphitro- 
pous; styles united; stigma 3-lobed or capitate. Fruit a loculicidal capsule 
(septicidal in Calochortus), or in Agave sometimes fleshy and indehiscent. 
Seeds various, winged or wingless. Embryo in copious endosperm, 
About 125 genera and 1300 species, widely distributed. 
+ Plants bulbous, or with rootstocks, or fibrous-fleshy roots. 
Ovary superior, not adnate to the perianth. 
Roots fibrous- fleshy; scape tall; flowers orange or yellow. ie 
Low fleshy herb with a short rootstock; flowers white. 2. 
Plants with bulbs or corms. 
Flowers umbelled. 
Perianth 6-parted. 
Odor characteristically onion-like; ovules 1 or 2 in each cavity. 
Odor not onion-like; ovules several in each cavity. 
Perianth funnelform, the tube about as long as the lobes. 
Flowers solitary, racemed, corymbed or panicled. 
Anthers not introrse. 
Perianth-segments all alike or nearly so; capsule loculicidal. 
Anthers versatile; tall herbs. 6. 
Anthers not versatile; low herbs. 
1763. 
Hemerocallis. 
Leucocrinum., 
Allium, 
Nothoscordum., 
. Androstephium. 
eos 
Lilium, 
Stem leafy; flowers leafy-bracted. 7. Fritillaria. 
Leaves only 2, appearing basal; flowers bractless. 8. Erythronium. 
Outer segments narrower than the inner; capsule septicidal. 9. Calochortus. 
Anthers introrse. 
Perianth of 6 separate segments. 
Filaments filiform. 10. Quamasia. 
Filaments flattened. 
. Orn tthogalum. 
Perianth globose, oblong or urn-shaped. 12. Muscart. 
Ovary half inferior; roots fibrous; flowers racemed. 13. Aletris. 
+k Stem a woody caudex; leaves rigid, mostly bearing marginal fibres. 14. cca. 
1. HEMEROCALLIS L. Sp. Pl. 324. 1754. 
Tall glabrous herbs, with fibrous fleshy roots, basal linear leaves and large mostly orange 
or yellow flowers clustered at the ends of leafless scapes. 
long or spatulate, much longer than the cylindric tube. 
Perianth funnelform, its lobes ob- 
Stamens 6, inserted at the summit 
of the perianth-tube, shorter than the lobes, declined; filaments filiform; anthers linear- 
oblong, the sacs introrsely dehiscent. Ovary oblong, 3 
ity; style slender, declined, tipped with a small capitate stigma. 
thick-walled, 3-angled, transversely wrinkled, loculicidally 3-valved. 
beautiful for a day. ] 
About 5 species, natives of Europe and Asia. 
3-celled; ovules numerous in each cav- 
Capsule oblong or ovoid, 
[Greek, signifying 
