156 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
ORDER LXXXIL—AMARYLLIDACES. 
Perennial herbs, not scurfy or woolly, with the leaves all radical 
and with radical scapes, or rarely in a few exotic species with a 
perennial leafy stem. Rootstock generally a tunicated bulb, more 
rarely creeping. Leaves simple, entire, sheathing at the base, gene- 
rally linear-lorate, parallel-veined. Flowers perfect, solitary or um- 
bellate, on a leafless scape, rarely spicate, racemose or paniculate. 
Perianth regular, or rarely irregular, with a tube united to the 
ovary and often produced above it; limb of 6 leaves, free or slightly 
united, usually all similar and petaloid, sometimes with a crown 
within it either free from the stamens and exterior to them, or 
combined with the stamens, in which case it is sometimes 6-partite 
or of six separate lobes. Stamens 6, very rarely 12 or 18, in- 
serted on an epigynous disk, or in the tube of the perianth and 
opposite its lobes; anthers 2-celled, affixed by the base or the middle 
of the back, introrse, opening longitudinally or at the apex. Ovary 
inferior, united with the perianth tube or with its base, 3-celled, 
rarely only imperfectly so: ovules numerous or definite, inserted 
in the inner angle of the cells or (in the 1-celled ovary) on parietal 
placenta, anatropous or semianatropous; style single; stigma un- 
divided or 3-lobed, rarely 3-cleft. Fruit generally capsular, rarely 
berry-like, loculicidally 3-valved or more rarely indehiscent. Seeds 
with the testa of various consistence; albumen fleshy or horny; embryo 
straight or nearly so, the radicle pointing towards the hilum, or very 
rarely away from it. 
Tre I.—NARCISSEZ. 
Perianth with a crown or petaloid tube in the throat; crown free or 
adhering to the stamens. 
GENUS I—NARCISSUS. Linn. 
Perianth coloured, petaloid, regular; tube prolonged beyond the 
ovary, the free portion cylindrical, straight; limb of 6 ovate or oblong 
or lanceolate segments, which are free to the base, all similar, spreading 
or ascending, the three inner as long as the outer, but usually narrower. 
Crown monophyllous, cylindrical or funnelshaped or saucershaped or 
rotate, usually crenate at the margin, as long as or shorter than the 
