LrLIACE^, (LILY FAMILY.) 781 



stigma capitate. Berry fleshy, generally l-ccUccl, 1-seeded. Seed 

 nearly globular — Erect shrubs, with minute, bract-like, scarious leaves 

 and branches {2iliyllodadia or ^;%Z/of?m) transmuted into leathery, 

 persistent, veined, sessile, leaf-like bodies, horizontal, owing to a twist 

 of the base. Flowers small, springing from tlic midril) of the lower 

 surface of the phyllocladium. 



1. R. aculcatii§, L. 5 Butcher's Broom. Knee-Holly, liaha- 

 Mth. .5 to 1; branches ascending. Phyllodia ovate-lanceolate, .01 to 

 .025 long, tapering into a spiny tip. Flowers 1-2, short-pedicelled, 

 inserted below the middle of the phyllodium, subtended by a frm 

 tract from the midrib ; berry .01 in diameter — Spring — Rocky places ; 

 coast to middle mountain zone. 



4. DAl^iE. Medic. Dax^. 



Flowers perfect. Perigonium fleshy, urn-shaped, with small, del- 

 toid, equal teeth. Filaments G, connate into a tube arising above the 

 middle of the perigonium; anthers 6, contiguous, exserted from the 

 throat of the tube. Ovary sessile, imperfectly 8-celled, with 2-ovules 

 in each cell; style short; stigma capitate. Berry globular, 1-celled, 

 usually GO -seeded — An erect shrub, similar to Ruscus, but with flowers 

 in terminal racemes, and a gamophyllous perigonium. 



D. racemosa, L. 5 Erect, much branched. Phyllodia obliquely 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate. Raceme from axil of upper phyllodium, 

 6-9-flowered; pedicels somewhat shorter than flower, jointed at tip; 

 berry large — Spring — In oak groves, xVmanus. 1000 m. 



Order CXII. I^ILIACEJE, D. C. (Lily Family). 



Herhsj often bulbous, or looocly jplanis, loith regular, 

 'symmetrical, ^-merous, or Q>-fid, ^-androus floioers, the stamens 

 opposite the divisions or lohes of the perigonium, vdth ^-celled, 

 versatile or introrse anthers, the ovaryZ- celled, styles coalesced 

 into 1, stigmas 1-3, the fruit a Z-celled capside, looulicidally 

 dehiscent, fevj-^'j -seeded, the seeds albuminous — Stamens 

 hypogynoiis or inserted at bases of divisions of perigonium. 

 Ovary free, or adherent below. Ovule? in 2 rows, inserted at 

 inner angle. 



Tribe 1. ALOl^K^E, (Aloks Tdibk). IIerb.s, or :«ljnib.-', or t^inall trees, witli 

 fleshy leaves, Perigoniunl united. 



1. ALOE. The very succulent leaves resetted at tip of root. 



Tribe II, ASPHODELEJE, (Asphodel TRinE.) Kool consisting of clustered, 

 fleshy tubers, or more or less slender fibres, or a root-stock. Divisions of perigoniiini urceo- 

 late, Connate at base or free. 



2. ASPHODELUS, Scape leafless, simple or forked. Flowers white or cream-colored. 



Anthers equal 



3. AI?1'TI0J)ELINE, Scape usually more or less leafy. Flowers yellow or white. Inner 



anthers much larger than outer. 

 4 EREMUEUS, Stem leafless. Leaves strap-shaped. Flowers (in ours) lunneUliaped, 

 .01 long, yellowish. Anthers equal. 



