LIL1IFLOBJE. 



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The majority, like these, are also perennial herbs with bulbs and 

 scapes. The fruit and the other characters as in the Liliaceae. 

 The external appearance is, however, very different. 



A. AMAEYLLEJJ have bulbs and the leaves generally arranged 

 in two rows ; the flowers are borne singly or in umbel-like in- 

 florescences on lateral scapes, while the main axis of the bulb is 

 unlimited. Beneath the inflorescence is an involucre (Fig. 309). 

 Galanthus, Snowdrop, has a polyphyllous perianth without corona ; 

 the three inner 'perianth-leaves are emarginate and shorter than 





FIG. 309. Pancratium caribceum. 



the outer ; the anthers dehisce apically. Leucojum differs in having 

 the perianth-leaves equal in length. Amaryllis has a funnel-shaped perianth, 

 entirely or nearly polyphyllous, but somewhat zygomorphic. Crinum ; 

 Heemanthus ; Clioia. Narcissus has a tubular corona, a ligular .struc- 

 ture arising from the perianth-tube exterior to the outer stamens. 

 In Pancratium (Fig. 309) the corona is united with the filaments which appear 

 to spring from its edge. Eucharis amazonica. 



B. H-JPOXIDEJE. The leaves, which are grass-like, dry, folded, and in some 

 hairy, spring from a rhizome, generally with a divergence of I /s. Flowers small, 

 perianth polyphyllous, persistent, on which account perhaps the Hypoxideas may 



