426 AMARYLLIS FAMILY. 



o o Filaments united by a web-dike or cup like tissue. 

 X Perianth tube much dilated at the throat. 



12. PANCRATIUM. Perianth funnel-shaped, the tube generally long, the segments nar- 



row and erect-spreading. Involucral bracts 2, thin. Cup uniting the filaments bear- 

 ing teeth or lobes between. Ovules many in each cell. Flowers generally umbellate. 

 Leaves linear or strap-shaped. 



X X Perianth tube cylindrical. 



13. HYMENOCALLIS. Perianth tube long and slender, straight, the lobes narrow or 



linear and recurved. Involucral bracts 2 or more, scarious. Cup not toothed. 

 Ovules 2 in each cell. Flowers white, fragrant, in an umbel-like cluster. Leaves 

 strap-shaped. 



14. EUCHARIS. Perianth tube straight or curved, the segments broad and spreading. 



Cup entire or toothed between the filaments. Bracts several or many, the 2 or 3 

 outer ones involucre-like. Ovules 2-qo in each cell. Flowers white in umbels, 

 showj'. Leaves broad, narrowed into distinct petioles. 



« • • Stems leafy, or scape beset with bracts, from a tuberous rootstock or crown. 



+- Perianth tube 0. 



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



thin lanceolate or linear leaves commonly t'lvisting or turning over. Flowers in a 



terminal umbel. Perianth 6-parted nearly or quite to the ovary, rather bell-shaped, 



often irregular as if somewhat 2-lipped. Stamens more or less decUned. Styla 



' slender ; stigma 3-cleft. 



■i- -I- Perianth tube evident. 



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



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

 funnel-shaped slightly curved tube, and 6 about equal spreading lobes. Stamens 

 included in the tube ; anthers erect. The summit of the ovary and pod free from 

 the calyx tube ; in this and other respects it approaches the Lily Family. 



17. AGAVE. Leaves thick and fleshy with a hard rind and a commonly spiny margin, 



tufted on the crown, which produces thick fibrous roots, and suckers and offsets ; 

 in flowering sends up a bracted scape, bearing a spike or panicle of }'ellowish flowers 

 Perianth tubular-funnel-shaped, persistent, with 6 narrow almost equal divisions. 

 Stamens projecting ; anthers linear, versatile. Pod containing numerous flat seeds, 



1. HYPOXIS, STAR GRASS. (Greek: sub-acid, once applied to 

 some other plant.) 



H. er^cta, Linn. Common in grass ; with few-flowered scape 3'-8' 

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



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

 who is snid to have been changed into this flower.) Popular ornamental 

 bulbous plants, running into many varieties and much confused by 

 hybridization. Following are the chief horticultural types : 



* Crown as long as the divisions of the perianth, or longer. — Daffodils. 



H- Leaves flat, glaucous. 



N. Pseudo-Narcissus, Linn. Daffodil, Trumpet D. Scape 1-flowered, 

 short ; flower large, yellow, with a short and broad tube, and a large 

 bell-shaped cup, having a wavy-toothed or crisped margin ; double-flow- 

 ered forms are common. Eu. 



1- •*- Leaves linear, subterete, green. 

 N. Bulbocbdium, Linn. Hoop Petticoat D. Flowers bright yellow ; 

 lube and crown about equal in length, the crown expanded and very 



