340 LILY FAMILY. 



1. From a coated or sometimes scaly bulb. 



* Stem leafy, especially above, the leaves often whorled or crowded: divisions of the 



perianth with a honey-bearing furrow or spot at or near the base : style long : 

 stigmas or lobes 3 : pod packed with 2 rows of depressed and Jlat soft-coated 

 seeds in each cett. FUnoers large, often several. 



21. LILirM. Flower bell-shaped or funnel-form with the separate or partly united 



divisions spreading or recurved above: the honey-bearing-groove beginning 

 at their base. Anthers linear, at first ei'ect, at length versatile; Pod oblong. 

 Bulb mostly scaly ( Lessons, p. 46, fig. 73, 74). 



22. FRITILLARIA. Divisions ot the bell-shaped flower distinct, not at all re- 



curving; the honey-bearing spot above their base. Bulb coated or scaly. 

 Flowers always nodding, often spotted. 



* * Stem 2-leaved or few-leaved at or towards the base, naked above and ordinarily 



\-Jlowered at summit: the six pieces of the bell-shaped perianth separate : sta- 

 mens on the receptacle or nearly so : anthers erect : seeds many, pale. 



23. TULIP A. Stem 1 - 2-leaved above the ground, bearing an erect large flower. 



Divisions of the perianth broad, not recurved nor spreading. Ovary and pod 

 triangular, columnar: stigmas 3, sessile. Seeds nearly as in Lily. 



24. ERYTHRONIUM. Scape 2-leaved from the ground, bearing a nodding flower. 



Divisions of the perianth lanceolate, recurved or spreading above. Ovary 

 and pod obovate : seeds globular. Style long, more or less club-shaped. 



* # # Scape naked, bearing several or many flowers: seeds very few, globular or 



angled, mostly with a crustaceou's or brittle black coat. 

 -- Perianth 6-parted or Q-sepalled, either wheel-shaped or less widely spreading. 



25. ORNITHOGALUM. Flowers in a corymb, bracted, white, wheel-shaped. 



Style 3-sided : stigma 3-angled. 



26. ALL'IUM. Flowers in a simple umbel, from a 1- 2-leaved or scarious spathe. 



Style persistent, slender: stigma entire. 



27. SCILLA. Flowers in a simple raceme, mostly blue. Style slender. 



t- 1- Perianth merely Q-toothed or Q-cleft, bearing the short included stamens on its 

 tube : pod triangular. 



28. MUSCARI. Flowers in a raceme; the globular or urn-shaped narrow-mouthed 



perianth nearly 6-toothed. 



29. HYACINTHUS. Flowers in a raceme; the short-funnel-shaped or bell-shaped 



perianth 6-cleft, the lobes spreading. 



2. Scape and leaves from a tuberous rootstock or fibrous-rooted crown : no bulb. 



* Stamens and styles long and slender, declined: stigma nearly simple : flowers large. 



30. AGAPANTHUS. Flowers in a 2-bracted umbel, blue. Perianth tubular at 



base, with 6 widely spreading divisions nearly regular. Pod triangular, 

 munv seeded. Seeds flat, brownish, winged above. Leaves linear, flat. 

 -81. FUNKlA. Flowers in a raceme, blue or white. Perianth funnel-form, 6-cleft, 

 the lobes hardly spreading, somewhat irregular. Pod oblong, prismatic, 

 many-seeded. Seeds flat, black, with a soft and thin coat, winged at the 

 apex. Leaves ovate or heart-shaped, netted-veiiiy between the ribs, and on 

 long petioles. 



32. HEMEROCALLIS. Flowers few on a somewhat branching scape, yellow, 



lasting but a day. Perianth funnel-form, with short narrow tube closely in- 

 vesting the ovary; the nearly similar divisions more or less spreading. 1 od 

 thick, at first fleshy. Seeds' few in each cell, roundish, with a hard and brit- 

 tle black coat. Leaves linear, grassy, keeled. 

 * * Stamens and style straight, protruding from the tubular perianth. 



33. TRITOMA. Flowers very many, nodding in a dense raceme or spike on a 



bracted scape. Perianth tubular, regular, red or yellow, 6-toothed. 1 ila- 

 ments of two lengths.. Pod many-seeded. Leaves narrow-linear, long and 

 grassy, keeled, crowded at the root. 

 3. Stem a woody trunk, either short or tree-like, bearing a crowd of rigid and 



pungent-pointed sword-shaped persistent leaves : no bulb. 



32. YUCCA. Flowers in an ample terminal compound panicle, large, often polyga- 

 mous, white or whitish. Perianth of 6 separate oval or oblong acute divis- 

 ions, not deciduous, the 3 inner broader, longer than the stamens. Stigmas 

 3, sessile. Pod oblong, many-seeded; the depressed seeds as in Lily. 



