LILY FAMILY 329 



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. 

 B. Style 1, undivided. 



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



D. Stem tall and leafy 1. Lilium 



DD. Stem short, with only 2-6 leaves. 



E. Flower erect 2. Tulipa 



EE. Flower nodding 3. Erythronium 



DDD. Stem naked, bearing many flowers. 

 E. Perianth tubular. 



F. Flowers funnelfonn, throat open: lobes 

 spreading or recurved, as long as the 



tube 4. Hyadnthus 



FF. Flowers urn-shaped, constricted at throat; 



lobes much shorter than tube 5. Muscari 



EE. Perianth parted nearly to base 6. Ornithogalum 



cc. Plant with a rootstock, and large clumps of 



leaves. 

 D. Flowers yellow and paniculate on a somewhat 



branching scape 7. Hemerocallis 



DD. Flowers white or blue, mostly in a simple 



raceme 8. Funkia 



BB. Style 1 at base, but 3-cleft or 3-parted: flowers 



bell-like, drooping, yellow 9. Uvularia 



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



broad and netted-veined 10. Trillium 



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



greenish. 



B. Foliage made up of cladophylls, the true leaves 

 being mere scales: stamens borne on the base 



of the small corolla 11. Asparagus 



BB. Foliage of ordinary leaves: stamens borne on the 

 corolla-tube. 



c. Perianth of 6 parts, separate 12. Smilacina 



cc. Perianth of 4 parts 13. Maianthemum 



ccc. Perianth gamosepalous, with 6 lobes. 



D. Flowers racemose on a scape 14. Convallaria 



DD. Flowers hanging from the axils of the leaves. .15. Polygonatum 



1. LfLIUM. LILY. 



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

 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). 



