Order 148.— LILIACE^E. 709 



8 L. candidum L. White Lily. Lvs. scattered, graded, lanceolate, nar- 

 rowed at the base ; fls. several, campanulate, smooth inside. — Gardens. It has a 

 thick stem, 4f high, supporting a raceme of very large, snowy-white fls., which 

 have long been regarded as the very perfection of whiteness and purity. JL 

 + Levant. Fig. 3. 



9 L. Japonicum Thunb. Lvs. scattered, lanceolate; Jlowtr solitary, cam- 

 panulate, nodding. — Greenhouse. A noble species, requiring careful man- 

 agement. Its flower is large, nodding, terminal, white, on a stem 2f high 

 f China. 



4. FRITILLA'RIA, Tourn. Chequered Lily. (Lat. fritillus, a 

 chess-board ; alluding to the chequered petals.) Perianth campanu- 

 late, with a broad base and nectariferous cavity above the claw of each 

 segment ; stamens as long as the petals ; stigma trifid ; capsule coria- 

 ceous, 3-cclled, scptifragal. — Herbs with coated bulbs, simple, leafy 

 stems, bearing 1 or more nodding fls. 



1 F. imperialis L. Crown Imperial Eac. comous, naked below; lvs. 

 entira — Native of Persia. A fine, showy flower, of easy culture. Stem thick, 

 striate, 3f high, the lower part invested with the long, narrow, entire leaves ; the 

 upper part is naked, bearing at the top a raceme of several large, red or yellow, 

 nodding flowers, beneath a crown formed by the pairs of small, narrow leaves, at 

 the base of each pedicel. May. \ (Petilium, Kunth.) 



2. F. maleagris L. Lvs. alternate, linear, channeled ; si. 1-flowered.—- - 

 Native of Britain. Stem a foot high, with alternate, long, very narrow leaves. 

 The flower, which is usually solitary, is large, nodding, and beautifully chequered 

 with purple and pale red or yellow. May. ■}■ 



5. YUCCA, L. Bear's-grass. Spanish Daggers. (The Indian 

 name.) Perianth of C petaloid segments, withering-persistent, the in- 

 ner broader; stamens G, shorter than the petals, inserted into their 

 base ; ovary free ; stigmas 3, sessile ; capsule oblong, obtusely hexago- 

 nal, 3-valved at apex, 3-cclled, cells more or less divided by a false dis- 

 sepiment ; seeds numerous and 2-rowed in each cell. — Sts. subterranean, 

 or arising in a leafy or naked caudcx, with rigid, linear, or sword- 

 shaped, perennial lvs., and a terminal panicle of showy, white, pedicel- 

 late fls. 



§ Caudex scarcely arising above the ground. Loaf margin bearing threads No. 1 



J Caudex conspicuous, trunk-like. Leaves entire or serrulate Nos. 2, 8 



1 Y. filamentosa L. Bear's-Turead. Acaulescent or nearly so ; lvs. linear- 

 lanceolate, rigidly acute, coriaceous, the margin filamentous, that is, bearing long, 

 thread-like fibers; segm. lance-ovate, acuminate, erect-spreading. — In light soils*, 

 S. States, and often cultivated. The lvs. are nearly erect, 1 to 2f long, 1' to 18" 

 wide, all densely clustered at the top of the short caudex, which is at the surface 

 of the ground, or a few inches above it. Scape 5 to 8f high, bearing a large 

 pyramidal panicle of simple racemes. Fls. cup-shaped, segm. 15" long. Aug. 



/?. eecurvifolia. Somewhat caulescent ; lvs. lance-linear or linear, recurved, 

 rarely somewhat filamentous. (Y. recurvifdlia Salisb. ?) 



2 Y. gloriosa L. Caulescent, caudex some 3f high; lvs. erect, lanceolate, rigid, 

 thick, subplicale, very acute, the margins very entire ; periantli ovoid-campanu- 



' late, segm. lanceolate. — Sandy sea-coasts, Car. to Fla. Caudex hall-shrubby, 

 thick, simple, fleshy, strongly scarred below with the old leaf-stalks, Lvs. 12 to 

 18' long, 2 to 3' wide, clustered above. Panicle of racemes 2 to 3f long, erect 

 from the summit of the caudex, with numerous cup-shaped, white, nodding flowers. 

 Jn., Jl. f 



3 Y. aloe folia "Walt. Spanish Daggers. Caulescent; caudex some lOf high, 

 often branched, naked and marked with leaf-scars below; lvs. densely clustered 

 above, very rigid, thick, strict, deflexed when old, lanceolate, apex spinoseent, 



