KEY. 243 



Perianth 6-cleft, white or yellowish, minutely war- 

 ty outside, looking scurfy, or mealy. Stamens inserted in its 

 throat. Style awl-shaj^ed, or 3-sided, 3-cleft at the apex. 

 Root fibrous. Scape bearing the numerous flowers in a wand- 

 like spiked raceme. Leaves lanceolate, clustered at the base. 



Aletris. 



If 50, The throat of the slender perianth-tube bearing a 

 top-shaped, ample, delicate, 12-toothed membrane (crown), 

 which connects the bases of the exserted stamens. Anthers 

 linear, versatile. Pod thin. Scape and long, strap-shaped 

 leaves from a coated bulb. Flowers large, showy, about 3 

 inches long, white, 2 to C (usually but 2). 



Pancratium rotatum, L. 

 Crown none 751 



751 Anthers versatile 752 



Anthers erect. Perianth parted nearly dowii to the 

 ovary, the segments yellow within, hairy and greenish out- 

 side. Scapes several, slender, hairy, bearing 1-4, peduncled 

 flowers at the top. Leaves linear, grass-like. 



Hypoxis erecta, L. 



75S. Flower solitary, large (over 3 inches long), white 



and pink, very showy, peduncled, from a 1-leaved, 2-cleft 



spathe. Stamens inserted into the throat of a funnel-form 



perianth. Scape and long, linear leaves from a coated bulb. 



Zephyranthus Atamasco, Herb. 



(^Amaryllis AtamascOj L.) 



Flowers several, 1 inch long, greenish-yellow, very 

 fragrant, sessile, scattered along the scale-bearing, elongated 

 scape. Leaves linear, lanceolate, very thick and fleshy, the 

 margin with cartilaginous teeth, clustered at the base. Root 

 tuberous. Agave Virginica, L. 



753. (642.) Trees, with simple deciduous leaves, and fas- 

 ciculate, rarely racemose flowers. Perianth V- to 9-cleft. 

 Styles or stigmas 2. Stamens 7-9. Ulmus. 



Herbaceous plants. Perianth apparently 8- 

 to 10-cleft 754 



754. Stamens 1 or 4. Perianth inferior, tubular, ap- 

 parently 8-, but really 4-parted, with as many alternate 



