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Capsule ovate to obovate, 3-beaked. Seeds horizontal, unap 
pendaged or more or less caudate at the outer end. 
48. Preea. Flowers few, greenish-white turning brown. Pedicels 
solitary in the axils of large foliaceous sheathing bracts, bibrac- 
teolate in the middle. Perianth-segments lanceolate, 1-nerved. 
Stamens 9 (“6 to 12”), in pairs on the outer sepals, included ; 
filaments subulate, naked; anthers oblong-linear,  sagittate. 
Styles short. Capsule coriaceous, ovate, 3-beaked. Seeds hori- 
zontal, linear, attenuate at base, caudate above. 
49. NartHectum. Flowers yellowish-green, the solitary pedicels 
subtended by a lanceolate bract and bearing a small linear 
bractlet. Perianth-segments linear-lanceolate, obscurely 3-nerved. 
Stamens included; filaments subulate, woolly; anthers linear- 
oblong. Style none; the slightly lobed stigma sessile upon the 
attenuated apex of the ovary. Capsule narrowly oblong, mem- 
branous, attenuate upward, splitting loculicidally into 3 valves. 
Seeds ascending from near the base of the axis, linear, with a 
long straight tail at each end. 
Trine XVI. Xerophylleze. Flowers perfect, on naked pedicels in a sim- 
ple bracteate raceme, on a very leafy stem from a thick tuberous rootstock. 
Glands none. Styles linear, stigmatic down the inside, persistent. Capsule 
ovate, chartaceous, loculicidally dehiscent to the base, and sometimes septicidal. 
Seeds 2 to 4in each cell, ascending, with loose thin testa, not appendaged or 
scarcely so. Leaves very narrow, dry, striate and rough-edged. 
50. XEROPHYLLUM. Flowers white, on long spreading pedicels 
(erect in fruit), in a subpyramidal many-flowered raceme; seg- 
ments ovate to oblong, 5—7-nerved. Styles reflexed or recoiled. 
Seeds oblong, somewhat angled, light-colored. Cauline leaves 
numerous, setaceous from a broader base.  Bracts linear, 
elongated. 
In addition to the above, other genera are represented by the fol- 
lowing species that have become more or less widely naturalized in 
some sections of the Atlantic States : — 
ORNITHOGALUM UMBELLATUM, Linn. The Star of Bethlehem; in 
moist meadows. 
Muscari Botryoies, Mill. The Grape-Hyacinth ; road-sides and 
copses. 
HeMEROCALLIS FULVA, Linn. The Day-Lily ; road-sides. 
ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS, Linn. Garden Asparagus: sea-coast and 
copses. 
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