512 AMARYLLIDACE^. (aMAUTLLIS FAMtl^T.) 



3. C. parviflbrum, Salisb. (Smallek Yellow L.) Sepals ovate or 

 orate-hinceolate ; Up Jhittish fioin al)ore, bii(//it r/fllow ( I' or less long) ; sterile sta- 

 men trian>^ular ; leaves oval, pointed. — Bogs and low woods; rather eoninion. 

 May, June. — Stem I °- 2° high. Flower fragrant: sepals and petals more 

 brown-purple thr.n in the next, into which, however, it seems to pass. 



4. C. pubeseens, WiUd. (Larger Yellow L.) Sepals t longnted-lancco- 

 late; lip Jiattcmd lattrallij, very convex and gibbous above (1^' -2' long, scent- 

 less, )iale. ydlow. — Bogs and low woods : common northward and westward, 

 and southward in the Alleghanics. May, June. — Stem 2° high, pubescent, as 

 are the broadly oval acute leaves. 



■^ •»- Sepals and petals plane, rounded, uldte, not longer than the lip. 



.5. C. spectS,bile, Swartz. (Showy L.) Sepals round-ovate or orbicu- 

 lar, rather longer than the oblong petals ; lip much inflated, ichite, pink purple in 

 front (Ij' long) ; sterile stamen heart-ovate. — Peat-bogs, Maine and W. New 

 England to Illinois, and southward along the Alleghanics. July. — The most 

 beautiful of the genus, downy, 2'^ high. Leaves ovate, pi'nted. 

 * * Scape naked, 2-leav(d at the base, \ flowered ; sepals and petals greenish, shorter 

 than the drooping lip, which has a closed flssure down its whole length in front. 



6. C. acatlle, Ait. (Stemless L.) Sepals oblong-lanceolate, pointed, 

 nearly as long as the linear petals ; lip obovoid or oblong, rose-purple (rarely 

 white), nearly 2' long, veiny; sterile stamen rhomboid; leaves oblong. (C. 

 humile, Sulisb.) — Dry or moist woods, under evergreens : common, especially 

 northward. May, June. — Plant downy : the scape 8'- 12' high, with a green 

 bract at the top. 



Order 115. AMARYLLIDACE.*:. (Amaryllis Family.) 



Chiefly bulbous and scape-bearing herbs, not scur/g or icoolly, icilh linear- 

 flat root-leaves, and regular {or nearly so) and perfect G-androus fluicers, 

 the tube of the corolline 6-parted perianth coherent loith the 3-celled ovary; the 

 lobes imbricated in the bud. — Anthers introi-se. Style single. Pod 3-celled, 

 several - many-seeded. Seeds anatropous or nearly so, with a straight 

 embryo in the axis of flesliy albumen. — An order represented in our gar- 

 dens by the Narcissus (N. POETICUS), Jonquil (N. Jonquilla), and Daf- 

 fodil (N. Pseudo-Narcissus), the Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) 

 and the Snowflake (Leuco.jum veknum), &e., but with very few indige- 

 nous representatives in this country. Bulbs acrid. Dirters from Liliaceae 

 chiefly in the inferior ovary. 



« Pod 3-Talvcd, loculiciJal : anthers versatile : perianth funnel-shaped. 



1. Amnryllis. Flower naked in the tliroat ; the tube short or none. Bulbs coated. 



2. Fanci-ailuin. Flower with a slender tube and narrow recurved lobes; a cup-sbapej 



crown connecting the stamens. IJulbs ( o:ited. 



3. Agave. Flower equally 6 cleft, persi.-teut •, no crown. Fleshy-leaved, not bulbous. 



* * Pod iiidehiscent ; anthers sagittate. 

 i. Hypoxys. Perianth G-pnrted nearly dowu tu the ovary. Bulb solid. 



