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slender peduncles. Sepals taper-pointed. Stigmas 3. Leaves 

 ovate-oblong, taper-pointed, closely sessile, doAvny underneath. 

 Berry oblong or obovate, red. 



8. Strop f opus. Stem leafy and forking. Flowers small, not quite in 



the axils of the ovate clasping leaves, on slender peduncles which 

 are bent near the middle. Anthers arrow-shaped, 2-horned at the 

 apex. 



9. Yera'trnm. Stem tall and stout, very leafy to the top, from a thick- 



ened base, producing coarse fibrous roots. Flowers yellowish- 

 green, in a pyramidal panicle of dense spike-like racemes. 

 Perianth somewhat spreading, slightly adherent to the ovary. 

 Filaments of the stamens recurved. Anthers kidney-shaped. 

 Styles 3. 



-i- -- Perianth of one piece ( gamophyllous. ) 



10. Siuilaci'ita. Flowers small, white, in a terminal raceme. Perianth 



6-parted, but 4-parted in one species, spreading. Style short and 

 thick. Stigma obscurely lobed. Filaments slender. 



11. Polygona turn. Flowers small, greenish, nodding, mostly in pair 8 



in the axils of the nearly sessile leaves. Perianth cylindrical, 6- 

 lobed at the summit, the 6 stamens inserted on or above the middle 

 of the tube. Stem simple, from a long and knotted rootstock. 

 Leaves glaucous beneath. 



12. Aspar'agus. Flowers small, greenish-yellow, axillary, on jointed 



pedicels. Perianth 6-parted, spreading above, the 6 stamens on 

 its base. Stigma 3-lobed. Berry globular, 3-celled. Stem much 

 branched. Leaves thread-like. Rootstock thick and matted. 



* * * * Leaves straight-veined, not grass-like. Stem usually from a 

 coated or scaly bulb. Style 1, not divided above, but the stigma 

 sometimes 3-lobed. Fruit a pod, splitting open midway between 

 the partitions ( loculicidal. ) 



13. Li I in in. Stem leafy, from a scaly bulb, the leaves often whorled or 



crowded. Anthers at first erect, at length versatile. Style long, 

 rather club-shaped. Stigma 3-lobed. Pod oblong. Flowers large 

 and showy, one or more. 



14. Erytliro'nimn. For full description see Part I., sections 82 and 83. 



(Dog's-tooth Violet.) 



15. A 1 Hum. Scape naked, from a coated bulb. Flowers in an umbel, 



from a spathe. Style thread-like. Strong-scented plants. 



16. Hemerocal'lis. Scape not from a bulb, but from a fleshy-fibrous 



root. Perianth lai-ge, orange-yellow, lily-like, the short tube en- 

 closing the ovary, the spreading limb 6-parted. Stamens 6, on the 

 perianth. Leaves long, linear, keeled, in 2 ranks, at the base of 

 the scape. Flowers several, bracted. 



