330 AMARYLLIS FAMILY. 



2. Scape and mostly smooth leaves from a coated bulb. 



* A cup-shaped, funnel-shaped, or saucer-shaped croicn on the throat of the perianth. 



2. NARCISSUS. Perianth with a more or less cylindrical tube, G equal widely 

 spreading divisions, and stamens of unequal length included in the cup oV 

 crown. Scape with one or more flowers, from a scarious 1-leaved spathe. 



8. PAN*']; ATll'M. Perianth with a slender tube, <> long and narrow divisions, 

 and a cup to which the long filaments adhere below, and from the edge of 

 which they project. Anthers linear, fixed by the middle. Scape bearing a 

 few flower's in a cluster, surrounded by some leaf-like or scarious bracts. 



# * No cup nor crown to the flower, or only minute scales sometimes in the throat. 

 *- filaments burne on the tulie of the floieer : anthers fixed by the middle, versatile : 



xpatlie, of 1 or 2 scales or bract*. 



4. CRIXl'M. Perianth with a slender long tube and C mostly long and narrow 

 spreading or recurved divisions. Stamens long. Scape solid, bearing few ( r 

 many flowers, in an umbel-like head. Bulb often columnar and rising as if 

 Into 8 sort of stem. Leaves in several ranks. 



6. AMARYLLIS. Perianth various; the divisions oblong or lanceolate. Scapo 

 bearing one or more flowers. Leaves mostly 2-ranked. 



*- -i- Filaments on the ovary at the base of the 6-parted perianth: anthers erect, not 

 versatile : spathe a bract opening on one side. 



6. GAL ANTHUS. Scape with usually a single small flower on a nodding pedicel. 



Perianth of 6 oblong separate concave pieces; the three inner shorter, less 

 spreading, and notched at the end. Anthers and style pointed. 



7. LEUCOIUM. Scape bearing 1-7 flowers on nodding pedicels. Perianth of 



6 nearly separate oval divisions, all alike. Anthers blunt. Style thickish 

 upwards. 



2. Stems leafy, or scape beset icith bracfs, from a tuberous rootslock or crown. 



8. ALSTRCEMERIA. Stems slender and weak or disposed to climb, leafy to the 



top, the thin lanceolate or linear leaves commonly twisting or turning over. 

 Flowers in a terminal umbel. Perianth C-parted nearly or quite to the ovary, 

 rather bell-shaped, often irregular as if somewhat 2-lipped. Stamens mofe or 

 less declined. Style slender: stigma 3-cleft. 



9. POLIANTHES. Stem erect and simple from a thick tuber, bearing long-linear 



channelled leaves, and a spike of white flowers. Perianth with a cylindrical 

 and somewhat funnel-shaped slightlv curved tube, and 6 about equal spread- 

 ing lobes. Stamens included in the tube: anthers erect. The summit of the 

 ovary and pod free from tho calyx-tube; in this and other respects it ap- 

 proaches the Lily Family. 



10. AGAVE. Leaves'thick and fleshy with a hard rind and a commonly spiny 

 margin, tufted on the crown, which produces thick fibrous roots, and Vuckers 

 and offsets; in flowering sends up a bracted scape, bearing a spike or panicle 

 of yellowish flowers. Perianth tubular-funi el-shaped, persi>v:,t, with G nar- 

 row almost equal division-. Stamens projecting: anthers linear, versatile. 

 Pod containing numerous flat seeds. 



1. HYPOXYS, STAR-GRASS. (Name, from tin- Greek, means acute uL 

 tin- /HIM- ; the pod is often so.) ^^>g^t^%>>v^JUL^ tfi - j 3 /^Vl -/&f 



. H. er^Cta, the common species, in grass : with tVw-flmyejvd scape 3' -8' 

 high, and leaves at length longer; yellow star-like flower over ' broad. 



2. NARCISSUS. (Greek name, that of the young man in the mythology 

 who is said to have been changed into this flower.) Most of them arc per- 

 fectly hardy : (1 spring. 



N. po6ticUS, I'OKT'S \. Leaves nearly flat,- scape 1 -flowered; crown of 

 the white flower edged with pink, hardlv at all projecting from the vellowis.li 

 throat : in full double -flowered varieties the crown disappears. 



N. biflbrus, TWO-KLOWI:KI:I> N., or I'm MKO-I; I'KKKLKSS of the old 

 gardeners, lias two white or pale straw-colored flowers, and the crown in the 

 form of a short yellow cup. 



N. poly<mthO8 is the parent of the choicer sorts of POLYANTHUS N. ; 

 flowers numerous, white, the cup also white. 



