456 AMARYLLTDACEjE. (AMAKYTLIS FAMILY.) 



tile. Pod mombranaceous, 3-lobcd. Leaves and scape from a coated bulb. 

 Flowers 1 or 2, from a 1 -2-Ioavcd spathe. (A poetical name.) 



1. A. AtamftSCO, L. (ATAMASCO LILV.) Spathe 2-cleft at the apex ; 

 periamli white ami pink; stamens and style declined. Penn. (Muhl.) Virginia, 

 und southward. June. Flower 3 long, on a scape 6' high. 



2. PANCRATIUM, L. PANCRATIUM. 



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

 long and narrow, recurved : the throat bearing a tubular or cup-shaped corolliue 

 delicate crown, which connects the bases of the 6 exserted stamens. Anthers 

 linear, versatile. Pod thin, 2-3-lobed, with a few fleshy seeds, often like bulb- 

 lets. Scapes and leaves from a coated bulb. Flowers large and showy in an 

 umbel-like head or cluster, leafy -bracted. (Name composed of Tray, all, and 

 Kparvs, powerful, from fancied medicinal properties.) 



1. P. rotifitlsiiB, Kcr. Leaves ascending, strap-shaped (l-2 long); 

 scape few-flowered ; the handsome (white and fragrant) flower with a spreading 

 large 12-toothed crown, the alternate teeth bearing the filaments. (Ilymeno- 

 callis rotata, &c., Herbert.) Marshy banks of streams, Kentucky, Virginia, and 

 southward. May. Flowers opening at night or in cloudy Aveather. 



3. AGAVE, L. AMERICAN ALOE. 



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

 narrow. Stamens 6, soon cxscrtcd : anthers linear, versatile. Pod coriaceous, 

 many-seeded. Seeds flattened. Leaves very thick and fleshy, often with car- 

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

 a thick fibrous-rooted crown. (Name altered from ayauoy, wonderful, not inap- 

 propriate as applied to A. Americana, the Century -plant.} 



1. A. Vil'gfiBiica, L. (FALSE ALOE.) Herbaceous; scape simple (3 

 - 6 high) ; the flowers scattered in a loose wand-like spike, green ish-yellow, 

 very fragrant. Dry or rocky banks, Penn. ? Kentucky, Virginia, and south- 

 ward. Sept. 



4. HYPOXYS, L. STAR-GRASS. 



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

 ceous outside. Stamens 6 : anthers erect. Pod croAvncd Avith the withered or 

 closed perianth, not opening by valves. Seeds globular, with a cru.-t.. 

 coat, ascending, imperfectly anatropous, the rhaphe not adherent quite down to 

 the micropyl", the seed-stalk thus forming a sort of lateral beak. Radicle inlb- 

 rior! Stemlcss small herbs, with grassy and hairy linear leaves and slender 

 few-flowered scapes from a solid bulb. (Name composed of vno, 1; nilk, and 

 ous, slutrji, it is thought because the pod is acute at the base.) 



1. II* cri'Cta, L. LcaA-es linear, grass-like, longer than the timhelhitely 

 1 -4-t! ;> ; divisions of the perianth hairy and gmnish outside, yellow 



within. Meadows and open woods; common. June- Aug. 



