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the end or in the forks of the stem. Style deeply 3-cleft. Pod triangu- 

 lar. Leaves clasping-perfoliate or sessile. 



6. Clinto'nia. Stemless, the naked scape sheathed at the base by 2, 3, or 4 



large oblong or oval ciliate leaves. Flowers few, greenish-yellow, in an 

 umbel at the top of the scape. Filaments long and slender. Style 

 long, the stigmas hardly separate. Berry blue. 



7. Prosar'tes. Downy low herbs, branching above. Flowers greenish, 



bell-shaped, rather large, solitary or in pairs, drooping on terminal 

 slender peduncles. Sepals taper-pointed. Stigmas 3. Leaves ovate- 

 oblong, taper-pointed, closely sessile, downy underneath. Berry oblong, 

 pointed, red. 



8. Strep'topus. Stem leafy and forking. Flowers small, not quite in the 



axils of the ovate clasping leaves, on slender peduncles which are ab- 

 ruptly bent near the middle. Anthers arrow-shaped, %-korned at the 

 apex. 



H- - Perianth of one piece (gamophyllous). 



9. Smilaci'na. Flowers small, white, in a terminal raceme. Perianth 



6-parted, but ^-parted in one species, spreading. Style short and thick. 

 Stigma obscurely lobed. Filaments slender. 



10. Polygona'tum. Flowers small, greenish, nodding, mostly in pairs in 



the axils of the nearly sessile leaves. Perianth cylindrical, 6-lobed at 

 the summit, the 6 stamens inserted on or above the middle of the tube. 

 Stem simple, from a long and knotted rootstock. Leaves glaucous 

 beneath. 



* * * Leaves straight-veined, not grass-like. Stem from a coated or scaly 



\ bulb. Style 1, not divided above, but the stigma sometimes 3-lobed. 



Fruit a pod, splitting open midway between the partitions (loculicidal). 



11. Liil/ium. Stem leafy, from a scaly bulb, the leaves often whorled or 



crowded. Anthers at first erect, at length versatile. Style long, rather 

 club-shaped. Stigma 3-lobed. Pod oblong. Flowers large and showy, 

 one or more. 



12. Erytliro'niiim. For full description see Part I., sections 82 and 83. 



(Dog's-tooth Violet.) 



13. Allium. Scape naked, from a coated bulb. Flowers in an umbel, from 



a spathe. Style thread-like. Strong-scented plants. 



1. TRII/L.IUM, L. WAKE-EOBIN. 



1. T. grandiflo'rum, Salisb. (LARGE WHITK TRILLIUM.) 

 Leaves sessile, longer than broad. Peduncle erect. Petals white 

 (rose-coloured when old), olovate. Rich woods. 



2. T. erectum, L. (T. erectum, L., var. atropurpureum, 

 Hook., in Macoun's Catalogue.) (PURPLE TRILLIUM.) Leaves 

 sessile, about as broad as long. Peduncle erect. Petals dull 



