66 BROMELIACEAE. 



it was seen growing on rock work at Bellevue in 1913. [Caraguata ungulata 

 Lindl.] 



Ananas Ananas (L.) Cockerell, Pine Apple, presumably of South Ameri- 

 can origin, now occasionally grown, but of no commercial importance in Ber- 

 muda, is recorded as introduced from the West Indies in 1616, and was, ap- 

 parently, quite extensively grown for a good many years. [Bromelia Ananas 

 L. ; Ananas sativa Mill.] 



Tillandsia fasciculata Sw., Fascicled Tillanesia, West Indian, occa- 

 sionally grown on rock work and in greenhouses, has large tufts of grey-green 

 linear-lanceolate leaves about 1° long and blue flowers in bracted, fascicled 

 spikes at the top of a stem l°-2° long. 



Aechmaea polystachya (Veil.) Mez, Violet Aechmaea, South American, 

 occasionally planted for ornament and interest, has linear-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, spinulose-serrate leaves l°-2° long and about 1' wide above the much 

 wdder base, the many-flowered, erect scape somewhat longer than the leaves, 

 the flowers in panicled, flattened erect spikes, the corolla violet-blue. [Tillandsia 

 polystachya Veil.] 



Dyckia altissima Lindl., Tall Dyckia, Brazilian, was sent to Paget Eec- 

 tory from the New York Botanical Garden in 1914. 



Order 9. LILIALES. 



Monocotyledonous plants, mostly with well-developed perianth, the 

 flowers usually regnlar and complete^ and their parts in 3's or 6's. Ovary 

 superior or inferior, compound. Endosperm of the seed fleshy or horny. 



Ovary superior. 



Perianth-segments distinct, green cr brown, not petal-like ; herbs with grass-like 



leaves and small flowers. Fam. 1. Juncaceae. 



Perianth-segments distinct, or partly united, at least 

 the inner petal-like. 

 Herbaceous plants or vines. 



Fruit a capsule. Fam. 2. Liliaceae. 



Fruit a fleshy berry. 



Erect herbs or vines ; tendrils none ; flow- 

 ers perfect. Fam. 3. Convallariaceae. 

 Tines, climbing by tendrils, or rarely erect ; 



flowers dioecious, in axillary umbels. Fam. 4. Smilaceae. 



Large tall woody plants. Fam. 5. Dracae>'aceae. 



Ovary inferior, wholly or in part. 

 Stamens 6 in our species. 



Erect perennial herbs ; flowers perfect. Fam. 6. Amaryllidaceae. 



Twining vines : flowers dioecious. Fam. 7. Dioscoreaceae. 



Stamens 3, opposite the outer corolla-segments. Fam. 8. Iridaceae. 



Family 1. JUNCACEAE Vent. 



Rush Family. 



Perennial or sometimes annual, grass-like, usually tufted herbs, com- 

 monly growing in moist places. Inflorescence usually compound or de- 

 compound, paniculate, cory^mbose, cymose, or umbelloid, rarely reduced to 

 a single flower, bearing its flowers singly, or loosely clustered, or aggre- 

 gated into spikes or heads. Flowers small, regular, with or without bract- 

 lets (prophylla). Perianth 6-parted, the parts glumaeeous. Stamens 3 or 

 6, rarely 4 or 5, the anthers adnate, introrse, 2-celled, dehiscing by a slit. 



