340 LILT FAMILY. 



§ 1. From a coated or sometimes scaly btdb. 

 • Stem leafy, especially above, the leaves often tohoi-led or crowded: divisions of the 

 perianth with a lioney-beanny furrow or spot at or near the base : style long : 

 stigmas or lobes 3 : p'rf packed with 2 rows of depressed and fiat soft-coated 

 seeds in each cell. Flowers large, often several. 



21. LILIUJI. Flower bell-shaped or funnel-form with the separate or partly united 



divisions spreading or recurved above : the honey-bearing-gi-oove beginning 

 at their base. Anthers linear, at first erect, at length versatile. Pod oblong. 

 Bulb mostly scaly (Lessons, p. 46, fig. 73, 74). 



22. FRITILLARIA. Divisions of the bell-shaped flower distinct, not at all re- 



curving; the honey-bearing spot above their base. Bulb coated or scaly. 

 Flowers always nodding, often spotted. 



« * Stem 2-leaved or few-leaved at or towards the base, naked above and ordinarily 

 1-fiowered at summit : the six pieces of the bell-shaped perianth separate : sta- 

 mens on the receptacle or nearly so : anthers erect : seeds many, pale. 



23. TULIP A. Stem 1 - 2-leaved above the ground, bearing an erect large flower. 



Divisions of the perianth broad, not recurved nor spreading. Ovary and pod 

 triangular, columnar: stigmas 3, sessile. Seeds nearly as in Lily. 



24. ERYTHRONIUM. Scape 2-leaved from the ground, bearing a nodding flower. 



Divisions of the perianth lanceolate, recurved or spreading above. Ovary 

 and pod obovate : seeds globular. Style long, more or less club-shaped. 



« * * Scape naked, bearing several or many flowers : seeds very few, globular or 



angled, mostly loith a crustaceous or brittle black coat. 

 4- Perianth ^-parted m' 6-sepalled, either wheel-shaped or less widely spreading. 



25. ORNITHOGALUM. Flowers in a corymb, bracted, white, wheel-shaped. 



Style 3-sided : stigma 3-angled. 



26. ALLIUM. Flowers in a simple umbel, from a 1- 2-leaved or scarious spathe. 



Style persistent, slender: stigma entire. 



27. SCILLA. Flowers in a simple raceme, mostly blue. Style slender. 



-t- -1- Perianth merely Q-tootked or 6-cleft, bearing the short included stamens on its 

 tube : pod triangular. 



28. MUSC ARI. Flowers in a raceme ; the globular or urn-shaped narrow-mouthed . 



perianth nearly 6-toothed. 



29. HYACINTHUS. Flowers in a raceme; the short-funnel-shaped or bell-shaped 



perianth 6-cleft, the lobes spreading. 



§ 2. Scape and leaves from a tuberous rootstock or fibrous-rooted crown : no bulb. 

 « Stamens and styles long and slender, declined: stigma nearly simple: flowers large. 



30. AGAPANTHUS. Flowers in a 2-bracted umbel, blue. Perianth tubular at 



base, with 6 widely spreading divisions nearly regular. Pod triangular, 

 many seeded. Seeds flat, brownish, winded above. Leaves linear, flat. 



31. FUNK'IA. Flowers in a raceme, blue or white. Perianth funnel-form, 6-cleft, 



the lobes hardly spreading, somewhat irregular. Pod oblong, prismatic, 

 many-seeded. Seeds flat, black, with a soft and thin coat, winged at the 

 apex. Leaves ovate or heart-shaped, netted-veiny between the ribs, and on 

 long petioles. 



32. HEMEROCALLIS. Flowers few on a somewhat branching scape, yellow, 



lasting but a day. Perianth funnel-form, with short nan-ow tube closely in- 

 vesting the ovary; the nearly similar divisions more or less spreading. Pod 

 thick, at first fleshy. Seeds few in each cell, roundish, with a hard and brit- 

 tle black coat. Leaves linear, grassy, keeled. 



* * Stamens arid style straight, protiiiding from the tubular perianth. 



33. TRITOMA. Flowers very many, nodding in a dense raceme or spike on a 



bracted scape. Perianth tubular, regular, red or yellow, 6-toothed. Fila- 

 ments of two lengths. Pod many-seeded. Leaves narrow-linear, long and 

 grassy, keeled, crowded at the root. 

 5 3. Stem a woody trunk, either short or tree-like, bearing a crotcd of rigid and 

 pungent-pointed swcn'd-shaped persistent leaves : no bulb. 

 82. YUCCA. Flowers in an ample terminal compound panicle, large, often polyga- 

 mous, white or whitish. Perianth of 6 separate oval or oblong acute divis- 

 ions, not deciduous, the 3 inner broader, longer than the stamens. Stigmas 

 3, sessile. Pod oblong, many-seeded ; the depressed seeds as in Lily. 



