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{ 8. Scape naked, 2-leaved at the base, 1 -flowered ; sepals and petals greenish, shorter 

 than the lip, the 2 anterior perfectly united into one. 



5. C. acaulc, Ait. (STEMLESS LADY'S SLIPPER.) Sepals oblong- 

 lanceolate, pointed, nearly as long as the linear petals ; lip drooping, obovoid, 

 rose-purple, with a fissure in front ; sterile stamen rhomboid, pointed ; leaves 

 oblong. (C. humile, Salisb.) Dry or moist woods, under evergreens; com- 

 mon, especially northward. May, June. Plant downy: the scape 8' -12' 

 high, with a green bract at the top. Lip nearly 2' long, veiny, sometimes pale, 

 or even white. 



4. Stem leafy, \-flowered : the 2 anterior sepals separate. 



6. 5 arietlimm, R. Brown. (RAM'S-HEAD.) Upper sepal ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, pointed ; the 2 lower and the petals linear and nearly alike, rather longer 

 than the red and white veiny lip, which is prolonged at the apex into a short 

 conical deflexed point ; sterile stamen rounded ; leaves 3 or 4, elliptical-lanceo- 

 late, nearly smooth. (Oyosanthes, Raf. Arietinum, Beck.) Swamps and 

 damp woods, Maine and Vermont to Wisconsin, and northward : rare. June. 

 Stem slender, 6'- 12' high. Perianth greenish-brown: lip small, somewhat 

 conical, hairy at the orifice, ' long. 



ORDER 120. AMARYLLIDACE^E. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) 



Chiefly bulbous and scape-bearing herbs, not scurfy or woolly, with linear 

 flat root-leaves, and regular (or nearly so) perfect 6-androus flowers, the tube 

 of the corolline Q-parted perianth coherent loith the ^-celled ovary, the lobes 

 imbricated in the bud. Anthers introrse. Style single. Pod 3-celled, 

 several -many-seeded. Seeds anatropous or nearly so, with a straight 

 embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen. An order represented in our gar- 

 dens by the Narcissus (N. POETICUS), Jonquil (N. JONQUILLA), and Daf- 

 fodil (N. PSEUDO-NARCISSUS), the Snowdrop (GALANTHUS NIVALIS) 

 and the Snowflake (LEUCOJUM VERNUM), &c., but with very few indige- 

 nous representatives in this country. Bulbs acrid. Hypoxys is the type 

 of a small suborder ? 



Synopsis. 



* Pod 3-valved, loculicidal : anthers versatile : perianth funnel-shaped. 



1. AMARYLLIS. Flower naked in the throat ; the tube short or none. Bulbs coated. 



2. PANCRATIUM. Flower with a slender tube and narrow recurved lobes ; a cup-shaped 



crown connecting the stamens. Bulbs coated. 

 8 AGAVE. Flower equally 6-cleft, persistent : no crown. Fleshy-leaved, not bulbous. 



* * Pod indehiscent : anthers sagitate. 

 4. HYPOXYS. Perianth 6-parted nearly down to the ovary. Bulb solid. 



1. AMARYL.L.IS, L. ZEPHYRANTHES, Herb. AMARYLLIS. 



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

 ilai'j spreading above ; the 6 stamens inserted in its nuked throat : anthers versa- 



