340 LILY FAMILY. 



1. From a coated or sometimes scaly bulb. 



* Stem leafy, especially above, (lie. leaves often u-horled or crowded: divisions of the 



perianth with a noney-bearing f arrow or spot at or ntur the base : style, long : 

 stigmas or lobes 3: pod jMckta with 2 rotes if depressed and jlxt s<>fl-coaled 

 seeds in each cell. Flowers lirye, often sen / <tl. 



21. LILIUM. Flower bell-shaped or funnel-form with the separate or partly united 



divisions .spreading or recurved above: the honey-bearing-groovc beginning 

 at their base. Anthers linear, at first erect, at length versatile. Pod oblong. 

 Bulb mostly scaly ( Lessons, p. 46, fig. 73, 74). 



22. FRIT1LLABIA. Divisions of the bell-shaped flower distinct, not at all re- 



curving; the honey-bearing spot above their base. Bulb coated or scaly 

 Flowers always nodding, often spotted. 



* * Stem 2-leaved or few-leaved at or towards the base, naked above, and ordinarily 



1-ftowered at summit : the six pii-crs of the, bell-sh<ijjtd perianth separate : sta- 

 mens on the nceptaclv or nearly so : anthers erect : sn-'/s many, pale. 



23. TULIPA. Stem 1-2-leaved above the ground, bearing an erect large flower. 



Divisions of the perianth broad, not recurved nor spreading. Ovary and pod 

 triangular, columnar: stigmas 3, sessile. Seeds nearly as in Lily. 



24. EBYTfiRONIUM. Scape 2-Ieaved from the ground, bearing a nodding flower. 



Divisions of the perianth lanceolate, recurved or spreading above. Ovary 

 and pod obovate: seeds globular. Style long, more or less club-shaped. 



* * * Scape naked, bearing several or many flowers: seeds very few, globular or 



anyled, mostly icilh a crust -tceous or brittle. blick coat. 

 -i- Perianth Q-parted or 6-sepalled, either wheel-shaped or less widt. ly spreading. 



25. ORNITHOGALUM. Flowers in a corymb, bracted, white, wheel-shaped. 



Style 3-sided: stigma 3-angled. 



21. ALL1UM. Flowers in a simple umbel, from a 1-2-leaved or scarious spathe. 

 Style persistent, slender: stigma entire. 



27. SC1LLA. Flowers in a simple raceme, mostly blue. Style slender. 



- - Perianth merely Q-toothed or 6-cleft, bearing the fttort included stamens on its 

 tube : pod triangular. 



28. MUSCARI. Flowers in a raceme; the globular or urn-shaped narrow-mouthed 



perianth nearly 6-toothed. 



29. HYACINTHUS. Flowers in a raceme; the short-funnel-shaped or bell-shaped 



perianth 6-cleft, the lobes spreading. 



2. Scape and leaves from a tuberous rootstock or fibrous-rooted croicn: no bulb. 



* Stamens and styles Img and slender, declined: stigma nearly simple: flowers large. 



30. AGAPANTHUS. Flowers in a 2-bracted umbel, blue. Perianth tubular at 



base, with 6 widely spreading divisions nearly regular. Pod triangular, 

 many seeded. Seed's flat, brownish, winged above. Leaves linear, flat. 



81. FUNKlA. Flowers in a raceme, blue or white. Perianth funnel-form, 6-cleft, 



the lobes hardly spreading, somewhat irregular. Pod oblong, prismatic, 

 many-seeded. Seeds flat, black, with a soft ni.d thin coat, winged at the 

 apex. Leaves ovate or heart-shaped, netted-veiny between the ribs, and on 

 long petioles. 



82. HEMEROCALLIS. Flowers low on a somewhat branching scape, yellow., 



lasting but a day. Perianth funnel-form, with short narrow tube closely in- 

 vesting the ovary ; the nearly similar divisions more or less spreading. Pod 

 thick, at first fleshy. Seeds' few in each cell, roundish, with a hard and brit- 

 tle black coat. Leaves linear, grassy, keeled. 



* * Stamens and style ftraight, protruding from the tubular perianth. 

 33. TRITOMA. Flowers very many, nodding in a dense raceme or spike on a 

 -bracted scape. Perianth tubular, regular, red or yellow, G-toothed. Fila- 

 ments of two lengths. Pod many-seeded. Leaves narrow-linear, toog and 



grassy, keeled, crowded at the. root. 

 3. Stem a woody trunk, either thort or tree-like, bearing a crowd of rigid and 



pungent-jxiiittc'f sirtird-fli<i/>ed persistent leart-s : no bulb. 



32. YUCCA. Flowers in an ample terminal compound panicle, large, often polyga- 

 mous, white or whitish. Perianth of separate oval or oblong acute divis- 

 ions, not deciduous, the 3 inner broader, longer than the stamens. Stigmas 

 3, sessile. Pod oblong, many-seeded; the depressed seeds as in Lily. 



