LILACEOUS PLANTS. 121 
of our meadows ; it took its name from a botanist of the seven- 
teenth century. 
Two of the most gregarious of our smaller Liliacez belong to 
a tribe, the main- 
distinction of 
which is obtained 
from its  trifid 
style. One of 
these two plants 
is the first har- 
binger of the 
spring, as it 
bursts forth into 
flower, much like 
the  snowdrop 
indicates the first 
effects of the 
warming rays of 
the spring - sun 
in the European 
North. Ours, 
Anguillaria aus- 
tralis,is however 
altogether a very 
different plant, 
as the illustra- 
tions evince( Fig. 
LIII. and LIV.). 
To demonstrate 
the playfulness — 
of this pretty 
and in many res- 
pects remarkable 
plant, its three 
principal forms, 
distinguished by 
Robert Brown as 
Fie. LIT. 
Fie, LUI.—(Anguillaria australis).—1, total plant stami- 
nate ; 2, leaves and flower-spike of pistillate plant; 3, leaves 
and flower-spike of bisexual plant ; 4, one-flowered variety ; 
all natural size. 
