4.C8 liliace^:. (lily family.; 



1. C. inajalis, L. — High Alleghanies of Virginia, and southward. 

 May. — Same as the European plant so common in gardens. (Eu.) 



5. CLINTONIA, Raf. Clintonia. 



Perianth of 6 separate sepals, bell-shaped, lily-like, deciduous ; the 6 stamens 

 inserted at their base. Filaments long and thread-like : anthers linear-oblong. 

 Ovary ovoid-oblong, 2-3-celled: style long, columnar-thread-like: stigma de- 

 pressed. Berry ovoid, blue, few -many-seeded. — Stemless perennials, with 

 slender creeping rootstocks, producing a naked scape sheathed at the base by 

 the stalks of 2 - 4 large oblong or oval ciliate leaves. Flowers rather large, urn- 

 belled, rarely single, somewhat downy outside. (Dedicated to De Witt Clinton.) 



1. C. fooresslis, Raf. Umbel few- (2-7-) flowered; ovules 20 or more. 

 (Dracaena borealis, Ait.) — Cold moist woods, Massachusetts to Wisconsin and 

 northward, and southward in the Alleghanies. June. — Scape and leaves 5' -8' 

 long. Perianth over J' long, greenish-yellow. 



2. C. umbelif&ta, Torr. Umbel many-floivered ; ovules 2 in each cell. 

 (C. multiflora, Beck. Convallaria umbellulata, Michx. Smilacina, Desf.) — 

 Rich woods, S. W. New York, and southward along the Alleghanies. June. — 

 Flowers half the size of the last, whito, speckled with green or purplish dots. 



6. HEMEROCALLIS, L. Day-Lily. 



Perianth funnel-form, lily-like ; the short tube enclosing the ovary, the spread- 

 ing limb 6-parted ; the 6 stamens inserted on its throat. Filaments and style 

 long and thread-like, declined and ascending : stigma simple. Pod rather fleshy, 

 3-angled, 3-valved, with several black spherical seeds in each cell. — Showy pe- 

 rennials, with fleshy-fibrous roots ; the long and linear keeled leaves 2-ranked at 

 the base of the tall scapes, which bear at the summit several bracted large yellow 

 flowers : these collapse and decay after expanding for a single day (whence the 

 name, from rjp.€pa, a day, and KaXKos, beauty). 



1. H. fulva, L. (Common Day-Lily.) Inner divisions (petals) of the 

 tawny orange perianth wavy and obtuse. — Sparingly escaped from gardens, 

 where it is common. July. (Adv. from Eu.) 



H. flava, L., the Yellow Day-Lily, is commonly cultivated. — The 

 White and the Blue Day-Lilies of the gardens are species of Fdnkia, a very 

 different genus. 



7. OBNITHOGALIII, Tourn. Star-of-Bethlehem. 



Perianth of 6 colored (white) spreading sepals, 3-7-ncrved. Filaments 6, 

 flatteued-awl-shaped. Style 3-sided: stigma 3-angled. Pod membranous, 

 roundish-angular, with few dark and roundish seeds in each cell. — Scape and 

 linear channelled leaves from a coated bulb. Flowers corymbed, bracted. (An 

 ancient whimsical name from opvis, a bird, and yaka, milk.) 



1. O. umbellatum, L. Flowers 5-8, on long and spreading pedicels; 

 sepals green in the middle on the outside. — Escaped from gaidens into moist 

 meadows, eastward. June. (Nat. from Eu.) 



