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SuB-GENus V. MART AG OX. 



Perianth, cernnous, with the seg-ments very revolute ; stamens diverging" 

 on all sides from the curved style. 



r American species ; bulbs, annual, bearing rhizomes — 



28, Canadense ; 29, Pardalinum ; 30, Suioerbum ; 

 31, Lucid um ; 32, lioezlii ; 33, Columbiatium ; 

 3'i, Humholdtii. 



Old-world species — 



35, ^lartagon ; 30, Avenacenin ; 37, Hansoni. 



Leaves lanceolate — many nerved — 



Perianth, falcate above the middle — 



38, Monadelphwn. 



Perianth, revolute to below the middle — 



39, Polyphyllum ; 4.0, Ponticuin ; 41, Carniolicum, 



Leaves, narrowly linear — with one or few nerves — 



Segments of the perianth, from six to twelve lines 

 broad in the middle — 

 a 42, Testaceum ; 43, LeicJitlinii ; 44, Batemanii ; 



vA 45, Pseudo-ti(jrinum ; 40, Wallacei. 



Segments of the perianth, from three to six lines broad 

 in the middle — 



47, Pomponium ; 48, Chalcedonicum ; 49, Gallosum ; 

 t 50, Tenuifolium. 



Note. — 'Die Xotliolirion group (Himalayan Lilies), with tumirated bulbs, stigma cleft 

 into three subulate hooked divisions, are now referred by Mr. Baker to the Fritillarias. 

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SUB-GENUS I. 



Cardiocrinuji (Endl.) (Heart-shaped Foliage Lily). 



Perianth, fannel-sha23ecl, with oblanccolate long-clawed segments,, 

 which, in the expanded flower, are falcate only at the apex, and ai'e 

 not papillose on the inner surface, and have a shallow groove on the 

 keel ; stamens, slightly curved, and parallel with the style ; leaves, 

 heart-shaped-ovate, with a reticulated venation and long stalks. It 

 is distinguished from the other sub-genera by its >S'»i)7a.('-like leaves. 



This first genus is at the same time the finest and most distinct 

 of all the true Lilies, being completely different from all the rest in 

 possessing long petioles, and in the shape and nerving of its leaves. 

 Thunberg, who was the first of the post-Linna^an botanists, to gather 

 and describe the plant, placed it originally in HemerocaUis, but on 

 better second thoughts changed his mind, and admitted it into 

 LiUum. Sahsbury, long ago, made for it a distinct genus, which he 



