MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS St 
1. C. Fraseri, Torr, Witp Hyacrntu. Leaves keeled, weak, 
shorter than the scape. Flowers in a long-bracted raceme, pale 
blue. River bottoms and other damp, rich soil. 
XIV. ORNITHOGALUM, Tourn. 
Stemless herbs from coated bulbs. Leaves linear, fleshy. 
Scape erect. Flowers in corymbs or racemes, bracted. Peri- 
anth segments 6, white, nerved, persistent. Stamens 6, 
hypogynous, slender. Filaments flattened. Ovary sessile, 
3-celled, few-ovuled. Fruit a roundish, 3-angled capsule, 
seeds black.* 
1. 0. umbellatum, L. Star or BETHLEHEM. Bulb ovoid, mem- 
branous-coated. Leaves numerous, linear, fleshy, mid-vein nearly 
white, as long as the scape. Scape slender, 6-12 in. high. Flowers 
opening in sunshine, long-pediceled. Bracts linear-lanceolate, about 
as long as the pedicels. Perianth segments oblong-lanceolate, white 
with a green stripe on the back, twice the length of the stamens. 
Introduced from Europe; very common about old gardens.* 
XV. HYACINTHUS, L. 
Stemless herbs from coated bulbs. Leaves linear, fleshy. 
Flowers in an erect spike, pediceled, bracted. Perianth 
tubular below, lobed and spreading above. Stamens short, 
included. Style short, stigma knobbed. Ovary 3-celled, 
many-ovuled.* 
1. H. orientalis, L. Hyacitntn. Leaves lance-linear, thick and 
fleshy, smooth. Scape erect, many-flowered. Segments united about 
half their length, white, blue, or red. Filaments very short. Ovary 
rarely maturing seed. Common in cultivation.* 
XVI. YUCCA, L. 
Plants with woody and leafy stems. Leaves numerous, 
rigid, spine-pointed, persistent. Flowers in large terminal 
racemes or panicles, bracted, nodding. VPerianth bell-shaped, 
segments 6, nearly alike, deciduous. Stamens 6, filaments 
thickened above, often papillose. Anthers small. Ovary 
sessile, 3-celled, or hecoming 6-celled, 3-angled, many-ovuled. 
Fruit an oblong, 3-angled, many-seeded, dehiscent capsule, 
or fleshy and indehiscent.* 
