LILIACE.E 291 



superior, usually 3-loculed, ripening into a capsule or berry. About 

 200 genera, including more than 2,000 widely distributed species. 

 Characteristic plants are lily, lily-of-the-valley, onion, Solomon's 

 seal, tulip, trillium, hyacinth, asparagus, yucca. 



A. Fruit a loculicidal capsule: style 1. 



B. Plant bulbous: root-leaves not in large clumps. 



c. Stem tall and leafy 1. Lilium 



cc. Stem shorter, with only 2 to 6 leaves. 



D. Flower erect 2. Tulipa 



DD. Flower nodding 3. JSrythronium 



CCC. Stem naked, bearing many flowers 4. HyacintTius 



BB. Plant with a rootstock, and large clumps of leaves. 

 C. Flowers yellow, paniculate on a somewhat branch- 

 ing scape 5. Hemerocallis 



cc. Flowers white or blue, mostly in a simple raceme. 6. Funkia 

 AA. Fruit an angled berry: styles or stigmas 3: leaves 



broad and netted-veined 7. Trillium 



AAA. Fruit a globular berry: style 1: fls. small, white, or 



greenish. 



B. Foliage made up of cladophylla, the true leaves 

 being mere scales: stamens borne on the base 



of the small corolla 8. Asparagus 



BB. Foliage of ordinary leaves: stamens borne on the 

 corolla-tube. 



c. Perianth of 6 separate parts 9. Smilacina 



cc. Perianth gamopetalous, with 6 lobes. 



D. Flowers racemose on a scape 10. Convallaria 



DD. Flowers hanging from the axils of leaves... 11. Polygonatum 



1. LfLIUM. LILY. 



Strong-growing bulbous herbs, with leafy stems usually bearing sev- 

 eral or many flowers: perianth bell-shaped or funnelform, the 6 divisions 

 nearly or quite separate and spreading or recurving and having a honey- 

 bearing groove at the base: anthers attached by the middle (versatile). 



a. Flowers white. 



L. longifldrum, Thunb. Easter lily. One to 4 ft., with scattered long- 

 lanceolate pointed leaves: flowers 5-8 in. long, horizontal, scarcely widened 

 from the base to the middle, fragrant. Japan and China, now much cul- 

 tivated under glass. Many of the bulbs are grown in the Bermuda Islands, 

 whence the name "Bermuda lily." 



L. candidum, Linn. Common white lily. Leaves broad-lanceolate, 

 scattered: flowers numerous, 5 in. or less long, widening gradually from 

 the base. Europe. Common in gardens. 



