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338 LILY FAMILY. 



1. fttmlets: Ihe large flower with a long tube rising directly from a thin-coated 

 solid bulb or conn: anthtrt 2-celled. 



8. COLCHICUM. Perianth resembling thnt of a Crocus. Stamens borne on the 

 throat of the long-tubular perianth. Styles very long. 



2. Perianth without any tain-, oJ'Q distinct or almost separate divisions. 

 * Anthers 2-ccl/ed, short : flower* in a simple raceme or spike : pod loculicidal. 



4. CHAM.<ELIRIUM. Flowers diu>cious or mostly so. Perianth of 6 small and 



narrow white pieces. Pod ovoid-oblong, many-seeded. Spike or raceme 

 slender. 



5. HELONIAS. Flowers perfect, in a short dense raceme, lilac-purple, turning 



green in fruit; the divisions Bpatnlate-oblong, spreading. Filaments slender: 

 anthers blue. Pod 3-lobed; cells many-seeded. 



6. XEBOPHYLLUM. Flowers perfect, in a compact raceme, white; the division! 



oval, sessile, widely spreading, naked. Filaments awl-shaped. Pod globular, 

 3-lobed, with 2 wingless seeds in each cell. 



* * Anthers kidney-fhaped or round heart-shaped, the two cells confluent into one, 

 ikUld-tkapfd ufter optniny : styles aid-shaped : pod 3-horned, s'tplicidal : seeds 

 commonly flat or thin-mar yintd. 



1. AMIANTHIUM. Flowers perfect, mostly in a simple raceme. Perianth white, 

 the oval or obovate spreading divisions without claws or spots. Filaments 

 long and slender. Seeds wingless, 1-4 in each cell. Leaves chiefly from the 

 bullions base of the scape-like stem, linear, keeled, grass-like. 



8. STKNANTHIl'M. Flowers polygamous, in panicled racemes on a leafy stem. 



Perianth white, with spreading ai.d not spotted lanceolate divisions tapering 

 to a narrow point from a broader base, which coheres with the base of the 

 ovary. Stamens very short. Seeds several, wingless. Leaves linear, keeled, 

 grass-like. 



9. VEBATRUM. Flowers polygamous, in panicled racemes. Perianth greenish 



or brownish, its obovate^olilong divisions narrowed at base, free from the 

 ovary, not spotted. Filaments short. Seeds rather numerous, wing-margined. 

 Leave-; broad, many-i.erved. I'.ase of the leafy stem more or less bulb-like, 

 producing many loiig white roots. 



10. MELANTHTUM. Flowers polygamous, in racemes forming an open pyramidal 



panicle. Perianth cream-colored, turning green or brownish with age, per- 

 fectly free from the ovary, its heart-shaped or oblong and nartly halberd- 

 shaped widely spreading divisions raised on a claw and marked with a pair 

 of darker spots or glands. Filaments short, adherii g to the claws of the 

 perianth, persistent. Seeds several in each cell, I roadly winged. Leaves 

 lanceolate or linear, mostly grass-like. Stem rcughish-downy above, its 

 base more or less bulbous. 



11. ZYGADENUS. Flowers pefect or polygamous, in a terminal panicle. Peri- 



anth greenish whiU>, its oblong or ovate widely spreading divisions spoiled 

 with a pair of rourdish glands or colored spots near the sessile or almost 

 sessile base. Stamens free from and about the length of the perianth. Leave? 

 linear, grass-like; stem and whole plant smooth. 



III. BELL WORT FAMILY; \\h\\ alternate and broad not 

 grass-liko parallel-veined leaves: stem from u rootstock or from 

 fibrous roots, branching and leafy: style one at the base, but 3-elef't 

 or 3-parted. Fruit a, pod, few-seeded. Anthers turned rather 

 outwards than inwards. Perianth of 6 almost similar and wholly 

 separate pieces, deciduous. Not acrid nor poisonous. Plants inter- 

 mediate between the preceding proups and the next. 



12. UVULARIA. Flower> solitary or sometimes in pairs at the end or Jnjhe forks 



"' t '"' forking stem, d]rooping, yellowi-h: the perianth rather belTsnJajjejJ 

 and lily-like, its divi.-ion> Bpatulate3anceblate, with a honey-bearing groove 

 or pit at the erect narrowed b;i-e. Stamens short, one aUhe base of each 

 Division: anthers linear* much longer than the filaments. Pod tri:uiulur_j>r 

 ' li.b.-d; kxmlicida] fivun th top. Seeds thiek and roundish. 



