240 PRACTICAL BOTANY, 



few-leaved. Raceme simple. Flowers white. Leaves grass- 

 like, broadly linear, elongated. 



Amianthium muscaetoxicum, Gray. 



73^. Styles stigmatic down the inner side. Anthers ex- 



trorse. Pod loculicidal, ovoid, or globular 736 



Styles subulate, with terminal stigmas. Anthers 

 innate, slightly introrse. Pod septicidal, 3-angled. Leaves 

 equitant, linear. Stem scape-like, glutinous, or roughened 

 with dark glands. Flowers usually involucrate with 3 bracts. 

 Sepals concave, sessile. (263) Tofielda. 



736. Flowers dicecious. Fertile flowers with rudimenta- 

 ry stamens. Styles linear, club-shaped. Seeds linear, wing- 

 ed. Stem wand-like, leafy. Leaves flat, lanceolate, the low- 

 est spatulate, tapering into a petiole. 



Chamaelirium lutexim, Gray (889). 



Flowers j^erfect. Styles filiform. Pod globose, 3- 



lobed 737 



737. Perianth white ; sepals as long as the filaments. 

 Stem simple, from a bulbous base. Leaves rush-like, the rad- 

 ical 1 foot long, 1 inch wide, in a dense tuft, those of the 

 stem needle-shaped, passing upward gradually into bristle- 

 form bracts. Ovary-cells few-ovuled. Seeds not appendic- 

 ulate. Xerophyllum asphodeloides, Nutt. 



Perianth purplish-green ; sepals shorter than the 

 filaments. Anthers blue. Scape naked, hollow, from a tube- 

 rous rhizome, and sheathed with broad bracts at the base. 

 Leaves oblong-spatulate, or oblanceolate. Ovary-cells many- 

 ovuled. Seeds linear, with a tapering appendage at each end. 



Helonias buUata, L. 



738. (730.) Leaves grass- or rush-like. Root fibrous. 

 Stigmas 3, filiform, hairy. Pod 3-celled, 3-valved 741 



Leaves ample, not grass- nor rush-like. Root a 

 bulb, or fibrous 739 



739. Stem forking, from a root-stock, or a fibrous root. 

 Style trifid. Anthers extrorse. Leaves ovate-oblong, or ob- 

 long 740 



Scape 1 -flowered, from a solid, scaly bulb. Style 

 elongated. Anthers introrse. Leaves 2, elliptical-lanceolate, 

 spotted, not dotted, from a little above the base of the scape, 



