456 THE LILY FAMILY. [Para. 



Perianth spreading, divided to the base. Leaves alter- 

 nate .4. MAIANTHEMUH. 



Fruit a capgule. 

 Rootstock not bulbous. 



Flowers of a brownish white, paniculate . 16. SIMETHIS. 



Flowers yellow, in a raceme or spike. 



Style simple 16. NARTHECIUM. 



Styles 3. Stigmas capitate 17. TOFIELDIA. 



Stigmas 3, sessile, feathery TRIGLOCHIN (p. 430). 



Bootstock bulbous. 



Flowers in a terminal umbel or head . . 14. ALUUM. 



Flowers solitary, or in a terminal raceme. 

 Perianth-segmenta spreading. 

 Perianth white, with pink stripes. Flowers 



usually solitary 9. LT.OYDIA. 



Perianth yellow. Flowers In a corymb-like ra- 

 ceme 10. GAQEA. 



Perianth-segments converging into a bell-shape. 

 Segments chequered, the inner ones with a cavity 



near the base 7. FRITIILARIA. 



Segments not chequered, without any cavities . 8. TOLIPA. 

 Stem leafless. Leaves all radical, sometimes sheathing the 

 stem. 



Bootstock creeping. Fruit a berry 8. CONVALLARIA. 



Bootstock bulbous. Fruit a capsule. 

 Flowers radical, with a very long tube commencing under- 

 ground 18. CoLcmcuM. 



Flowers in a terminal umbel or head 14. ALLIUM. 



Flowers in a terminal raceme. 



Perianth of 1 piece, with 6 minute teeth . . . .13. MUSCARL 

 Perianth of 6 segments. 



Flowers blue or pink. (Filaments flattened or not) . 12. SCILLA. 

 Flowers white or greenish. Filaments flattened . . 11. ORNITHOQALCM. 

 Flowers yellow. Filaments not flattened . . .10. GAQEA. 



The above Genera belong to the following Suborders : 



1. TRILLIDK.B. Fruit a berry. Leaves with netted veins. Styles free. Genut : 

 l. PARIS. 



2. CONVALLARIKJ?. Fruit a berry. Leaves with parallel veins. Styles united. 

 Testa of the seed membranous. Genera: 2. POLYGON ATUM ; 3. CONVALLARIA; 

 4. MAIANTHEMUM. 



3. ASPARAQEJ5. Fruit a berry. Leaves with netted veins. Styles united. Testa 

 of the seed hard and black. Genera : 5. ASPARAGUS ; 6. Kuscus. 



4. LIUEJS. Fruit a capsule. Styles united. Genera: 7. KRITILLARIA ; 8. 

 TULIPA; 9. LLOYDIA; 10. GAQKA; 11. ORNITUOQAH;IC; 12. SCILLA; 13. MUSOARI; 

 14. ALUUM ; 15. SIMETHIS ; 16. NARTHECIUM. 



5. COLCHICK.B. Fruit a capsule. Styles distinct. Genera ; 17. TOFIELDIA ; 18, 



COLCHICUM. 



Among the exotic Genera most familiar by long or general cultivation 

 may be mentioned the Hyacinth, Asphodel, Yucca, Lilium, Calochortus, 

 Eryihronium or Dog-tooth Violet, Ilemerocallis, Tuberose (Polyanthes), 

 Agapanthus, Funckia, &c., and some of their species, especially of 

 LUium, occasionally appear almost wild in the neighbourhood of gar- 

 dens. The Pineapple and some showy Pourretias and Tillandsias, occa- 

 tionally seen in our hothouses, belong to the nearly allied family of 

 JJromeliacccB. 



I. PARIS. HERB-PAJIIS. 



Rootstock creeping. Stem simple, with a single whorl of netted- 

 veined leaves, and a single terminal flower. Perianth of 8 or rarely 10 

 narrow segments in two series. Stamens as many. Ovary with 4 or 

 rarely 5 cells, and as many distinct styles or stigmas. 



