MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 33 
1. A. muscetoxicum, Gray. FLy Poison. Bulb ovoid or oblong. 
Stem somewhat angled below, 1-3 ft. high. Lower leaves strap- 
shaped, channeled, the upper small and bract-like. Raceme dense, 
cylindrical, pedicels from the axils of minute ovate bracts. Peri- 
anth segments ovate, white, becoming greenish, nearly as long as 
the slender stamens. Styles spreading. Capsule with divergent 
lobes; seeds ovoid, red. In rich woods.* 
IV. UVULARIA, L. 
Rather low plants with short rootstocks. Leaves alternate, 
broad, and parallel-veined. Flowers yellow or yellowish, 
drooping, borne singly at the end of the forking stem. 
Perianth of 6 similar and separate narrow spatulate sepals, 
each grooved and nectar-bearing inside toward the base. 
Stamens 6, with linear anthers, which are much longer than 
the filaments. Style 3-cleft. Pod 3-lobed, 3-celled, few- 
seeded. 
1. U. grandiflora. LARGER BeLitwort. Leaves oblong, with the 
base clasping the stem so as to make it appear to run through the 
leaf a little way from the base; flowers greenish-yellow, 14 in. long, 
anthers obtuse. A leafy plant, 1-2 ft. high. 
2. U. perfoliata. Meaty Brettwort. Leaves much as in the 
preceding species; flowers very pale yellow, with shining grains on 
the inner surfaces of the twisted sepals; anthers sharp-pointed ; 
plant about 2 the size of the preceding. 
V. OAKESIA, Watson. 
Plants with much the aspect of the preceding genus, but 
with merely sessile leaves, triangular winged pods, and slen- 
der creeping rootstocks. 
1. 0. sessilifolia. Witp Oats, Straw Lizies. Stem slender, 
zigzag. Leaves lance-oval, thin, smooth, pale beneath, 1-14 in. 
long. Flower cream-color, nearly 1 in. long. 
VI. HEMEROCALLIS, L. 
Perennial, from a fascicle of fleshy roots. Stem erect, 
branched, smooth. Leaves mostly basal and linear. Flowers 
on branching scapes, large, yellow or orange, solitary or 
