ENDOGENS OR MONOCOTYLEDONS 



lei or netted ? How are they arranged in the buds that are 

 unfolding into new shoots ? Count the number of parts in 

 the flower. What seems to be the most common number ? 

 Examine the underground parts. How many of them have 

 storehouses ? Perhaps now you can see some reason for 

 putting these plants in the same group. 



One division of the group of endogens, is made up of 

 the lily family and nearly-related families. Recall what 

 you found out about the cluster-lily, Fig. 33, and the Mari- 

 posas, Fig. 48. California has many other wild lilies, some 

 of them so beautiful that they are grown in gardens and 

 much prized in foreign countries. There are the brown 

 lilies that come early, and there are other Brodiseas besides 

 the cluster lilies; the true wild onion has very pretty 

 flowers, and is common in many places; then in the moun- 

 tains there are several kinds of large lilies, some of which, 

 like the Humboldt, or tiger lily, the leopard lily and Parry's 

 lily, come in the summer months. In May children in 

 Southern California may be able to get the Yucca; also some 

 smaller, bright yellow lilies that grow in large umbels, and 

 are sometimes called golden star lilies. 



Collect all the kinds of wild lilies you can find and look 

 also in your gardens for plants with flowers that look like 

 lilies. From these and from pictures, you will find that the 

 true lilies have always three petals, three sepals, twice 

 three stamens, and a three-celled ovary that is called 

 superior because the other parts start below it and are not 

 united with it. Now any flower having this sort of an 

 ovary and the other parts in these numbers, belongs to the 

 lily family; remembering this fact will help you in finding 

 from books the names of flowers new to you. In gardens, 

 you are likely to find some very pretty flowers with parts in 

 threes, but with inferior ovaries, so that the seeds seem to 

 be in the stem; botanists put these flowers into two other 

 families; the Amaryllis family, which includes the Chinese 



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