408 LiLiACEuE. (LILY FAMILY.; 



1. C. maj;\lis, L. High Alleghanies of Virginia, and southward 

 May. Same as the European plant so common in gardens. (Eu.) 



5. CL, I NT ON I A, Raf. CLINTONIA. 



Perianth of 6 separate sepals, bell-shaped, lily-like, deciduous; the 6 stamens 

 inserted at their base. Filaments long and thread-like : anthers linear-oblong. 

 Ovary ovoid-oblong, 2-3-celled: style long, columnar-thread-like: stigma de- 

 1. Berry ovoid, blue, few - many-seeded. Stemless perennials, with 

 slender creeping rootstocks, producing a naked scape sheathed at the base by 

 the stalks of 2-4 large oblong or oval ciliate leaves. Flowers rather large, urn- 

 belled, rarely single, somewhat downy outside. (Dedicated to De Witt Clinton.) 



1. C. borefiliS, Raf. Umbel few- (2-7-) flowered ; ovules 20 or more. 

 (Dracaena borealis, Ait.) Cold moist woods, Massachusetts to Wisconsin and 

 northward, and southward in the Alleghanies. June. Scape and leaves 5' -8' 

 long. Perianth over %' long, greenish-yellow. 



2. C. Illllbcllfita, Torr. Umbel many -flowered ; ovules 2 in each cell. 

 (C. multiflora, Beck. Convallaria umbellulata, Miclix. Smilacina, Desf.) 

 Rich woods, S. W. New York, and southward along the Alleghanies. June. 

 Flowers half the size of the last, white, speckled with green or purplish dots. 



6. IIEMEROCALLIS, L. DAY LILY. 



Perianth funnel-form, lily-like ; the short tube enclosing the ovary, the spread- 

 ing limb 6-partcd ; the 6 stamens inserted on its throat. Filaments and stylo 

 long and thread-like, declined and ascending : stigma simple. Pod rather fleshy, 

 3-angled, 3-valved, with several black spherical seeds in each cell. Showv pe- 

 rennials, with fleshy-fibrous roots ; the long and linear keeled leaves 2-ranked at 

 the base of the tall scapes, which bear at the summit several bracted large yellow 

 flowers: these collapse and decay after expanding for a single day (whence the 

 name, from jj/zepa, a day, and KXXos, beauty). 



I. II. FULVA, L. (COMMON DAY-LILY.) Inner divisions (petals) of the 

 tawny orange perianth wavy and obtuse. Sparingly escaped from gardens, 

 where it is common. July. (Adv. from Eu.) 



II. FL\VA, L., the YELLOAV DAY-LILY, is commonly cultivated. The 

 White and the Blue Day-Lilies of the gardens are species of FUNKIA, a very 

 different genus. 



7. OKXVTIIOGALUHI, Toura. STAR-OF-BETHLKIIKM. 



Perianth of 6 colored (white) spreading sepals, 3-7-nervcd. Filaments 6, 

 flattened-a\vl-shaped. Style 3-sidcd : stigma 3-angled. Pod mrmhnmous 

 roundish-angular, with few dark and roundish seeds in each cell. Scape and 

 linear channelled leaves from a coated bulb. Flowers corymbed, bracted. 

 ancient whimsieal name from opi/is, a bird, and -yaXa, milk.) 



1. O. r.Mi-.M.iA TIM, L. Flowers 5-8, on long and spreading ]>' : 

 sepals t;neii in the middle on the outside. Escaped from guldens into 

 meadows, eastward. June. (Nat. from Eu.) 



