516 AMARYLLIDACE>E. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) 



1. ZEPHYRANTHES, Herb. 



Perianth funnel-form, from a tubular base ; the 6 divisions petal-like and 

 similar, spreading above; the 6 stamens inserted in its naked throat; anthers 

 versatile. Pod membranaceous, 3-Iobed. — Leaves and low scape from a coated 

 bulb. Flowers solitary from a scarious simple bract. (From ^4<pvpos, a wind, 

 and 6.vQos,foicer.) 



1. Z. Atam^SCO, Herb. (Atamasco Lily.) Leaves bright green and 

 shining, very narrow, channelled, the margins acute; scape 6-12' high; pe- 

 duncle short ; spathe 2-clef t at the apex ; perianth white and pink, 3' long ; 

 stamens and style declined. — Penu. to Va. and Fla. June. 



2. HYMENOCALLIS, Salisb. 



Perianth with a long and slender tube, and an equal 6-parted limb; lobes 

 long and narrow, recurved; the throat bearing a tubular or cup-shaped corol- 

 like delicate crown, which connects the bases of the 6 exserted stamens. An- 

 thers linear, versatile. Capsule thin, 2-3-lobed; seeds usually 2 in each cell, 

 basal, fleshy, often like biilblets. — Scapes and leaves from a coated bulb. 

 Flowers white, fragrant, large and showy, sessile in an umbel-like head or 

 cluster, subtended by 2 or more scarious bracts. (Xame composed of vfiiiv, a 

 membrane, and KaWos, beaut i/.) 



1 . H. OGcidentalis, Kunth. Leaves strap-shaped, glaucous, I - H° long, 

 9 - 18 " broad ; scape 3 - 6-flowered ; bracts narrow, 2' long ; perianth-tube about 

 24-4' long, the linear segments scarcely shorter; the crown 12-15" long, 

 tubular below, broadly funnel-form above, the margin deltoid and entire, or 

 2-toothed and erose, between the white filaments, which are twice longer; 

 anthers yellow; style green. — Marshy banks of streams, S. 111. to N. Ga. 

 and Ala. — Apparently distinct from II. lacera, Salisb. (Pancratium rotatum, 

 Ker), of the southern coast. 



3. AGAVE, L. American Aloe. 



Perianth tubular-fuunel-form, persistent, 6-parted ; the divisions nearly equal, 

 narrow. Stamens 6; anthers linear, versatile. Capsule coriaceous, many- 

 seeded. Seeds flattened. — Leaves thick and fleshy, often with cartilaginous 

 or spiny teeth, clustered at the base of the many-flowered scape, from a thick 

 fibrous-rooted crown. (Name from dyav^, noble, — not inappropriate as applied 

 to A. Americana, the Century-plant.) 



1. A. Virginica, L. (False Aloe.) Herbaceous; leaves entire or 

 denticulate; scape 3-6° high; flowers scattered in a loose wand-like spike, 

 greenish-yellow, fragrant, the perianth 9-12" long, its narrow tube twice 

 longer than the erect lobes. — Dry or rocky banl-^s, Md. and Xo.. to Fla., west to 

 S. Ind., Mo., and Tex. 



4. HYPOXIS, L. Star-grass. 



Perianth persistent, 6-parted, spreading; the 3 outer divisions a little herba- 

 ceous outside. Stamens 6 ; anthers sagittate, erect. Capsule crowned with 

 the withered or closed perianth, not opening by valves. Seeds globular, with 

 a crustaceous coat, ascending, imperfectly anatropous, the rhaphe not adherent 



