40 SPRING FLOWERS. 



** Plants having green leaves ; (pollen cohering in grains 

 or masses, which are indefinite in number and waxy.) 



t Central anther perfect, the two lateral ones abortive. 



X Lip spurred at the base. 



(99) Orchis — lip lobed ; pollen-masses with two glands enclosed 

 in a common pouch. 



++ 



Lip not spurred. 



(100) Ophrys— lip lobed, convex, usually hairy and figured re- 



sembling the body of an insect ; pollen-masses with two 

 glands each, enclosed in a separate pouch. 



tt Central anther abortive, the two lateral ones perfect. 



(101) Cypripedium — lip large, inflated, pouch-like. 



45. Liliaceous Plants. Liliace^e. 



* Stem leafy, branching, shrub-like. 



(102) Ruscus — leaves stiff", prickly, bearing the flowers on their 



upper reversed surface. 



** Stem leafy, simple. 

 t Fruit a berry (succulent) . 



(103) Polygonatum — flowers axillary, jointed with their stalk ; 



perianth cylindrical, shortly six-cleft. 



tt Fruit a capsule (dry). 

 X Flowers solitary, terminal. 



(10-i) Fritillaria — perianth-segments converging into a bell-shape, 

 drooping; segments chequered, the inner three with an 

 oval honey-pore near their base ; anthers attached above 

 their base. 



(105) TiiLLpa — perianth-segments converging into a bell-shape, 

 erect ; segments not chequered, nor having honey-pores 

 at the base ; anthers erect, attached by their base. 



