LILIACEiK, (LILY FAMILY.) 781 



stigma capitate. BeiTy fleshy, generally 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed 

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

 and branches (2jhyUocIadki or ^;%Z/'ofZ/a) transmuted into leathery, 

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

 of the base. Flowers small, springing from the midrib of the lower 

 surface of the phyllocladium. 



1. R. aculeatiis, L. j Butcher's Broom. Knee-Holly. JRabci' 

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

 .025 long, tajyering into a sjmw tiji. Flowers 1-2, short-pedicelled, 

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

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

 coast to middle mountain zone. 



4. DANiE. Medic. Dan^. 



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

 toid, equal teeth. Filaments 6, connate into a tube arising above the 

 middle of the perigonium ; anthers 0, contiguous, exserted from the 

 throat of the tube. Ovary sessile, imperfectly 3-celled, with 2-ovules 

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

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

 in terminal racemes, and a gamophyllous perigonium. 



D. racemo§a, 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, Amanus, 1000 m. 



Order CXII. L.IL.IACEiE, D. C. (Lilt Family). 



HerhSy often hulboics, or looody plants^ icith regular^ 

 syinm-etrical^ 6-77ierous, or 6-Jid, Q-androitsfloioers^ the stamens 

 opj^osite the divisions or lobes of the jyerigoniiom, with %celled^ 

 versatile or introrse anthers^ t he ov ary Z- celled, styles coalesced 

 into 1, stigmas 1-3, the fruit a o-celled capside, loculicidally 

 dehiscent, fev>y^ -seeded, the seeds alhiwiinotcs — Stamens 

 liypogynous or inserted at bases of divisions of perigonium. 

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

 inner angle. 



Tribe 1. ALOl^K^. (Aloes Tbibe). Ueibs, or shrubs, or small trees, with 

 fleshy leaves. Perigonium united. 



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



Tribe II. ASPHODEIiE-^. (Asphodel Tribe.) Root consisting of clustered, 

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

 late, connate at base or free. 



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



Anthers equal 



3. ASPHODELINE. Scape usually more or less leafy. Flowers yellow or white. Inner 



anthers much larger than outer. 

 4 EREMUPvUS. Stem leafless. Leaves strap-shaped, Flowers (in ours) funnel-shaped, 

 .01 long, yellow-ish. Anthers equal. 



