526 LiLiACE^. (lily family.) 



«rs ; sepals dingy -green, oblanccolate or spatulatc (2" -3' long), those of the 

 sterile llower.-i on claws, witlely spreading. (Melanihiinn nionoicuin, Walt. 

 Leiniantliiuiu inonoiciuu, Grui).) — Mountains of Virginia and southward. 



3. V. Woodii, Hobbins. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate ; pedicels 

 ( 1 ^" - 3" long) sli.jid r than the jiuinrs, the oblaneeolate spreading seimU (3" - 4^" 

 long) dingy green turning MdVi/.sA /mqile witltin : otherwise much as iii tlie last, 

 of which it may be a variety ; but tiie Howers are mostly double the size, and 

 the i)aniele stouter. (Plant 3° -6° high.) — Woods and hilly barrens, Green 

 Co., Indiana, W'ooil. Augusta, Illinois, Mead. 



7. AMIaNTHIUM, Gray. Fly-Poisox. 



Flowers perfect. Perianth widely spreading; the distinct and free petal-like 

 (white) sepals oval or obovate, without claws or glands, persistent. Filaments 

 capillary, equalling or exceeding the perianth. Anthers, pods, &c., nearly as in 

 Melanthiuni. Styles thread-like. Seeds wingless, oblong or linear, with a loose 

 coat, 1-4 in each cell. — Glabrous, with simple stems from a bulbous base or 

 coated bulb, scape-like, few-leaved, terminated by a simple dense raceme of hand- 

 some flowers, turning greenish with age. Leaves linear, keeled, grass-like. 

 (From a/uiaiToy. unapotted, and ai/^os, Jluwei' ; a name formed with more regard 

 to euphony than to good construction, alluding to the glandless perianth.) 



1. A. mUSCSetOXicum, Gray. (Flv-Poisox.) Lcaces bruadly linear , 

 elongated, obtuse (^'-1' wide); raceme simple; pod abruptly 3-horned; seeds 

 oblong, with a fleshy red coat. (Ilelonias erythrospe'rma, Mlchx.) — Open 

 woods, New Jersey and Penn. to Kentucky and southward. June, July. 



8. XEROPHYLLUM, Michx. Xekophyllu.m. 



Flowers perfect. Perianth widely spreading ; sepals petal-like (white), oval, 

 distinct, without glands or claws, at length withering, about the length of the 

 awl-shaped filaments. Anthers 2celled, short, cxtrorsc. Styles thread-like, 

 stigmatic down the inner side. Pod globular, 3-lobed, obtuse (small), loculiei- 

 dal ; the valves bearing the partitions. Seeds 2 in each cell, collateral, 3-an- 

 glcd, not margined. — Herb with the aspect of an Asphodel ; the stem simple, 

 10-4° high, from a bulbous base, bearing a simple compact raceme of showy 

 white flowers, thickly beset with needle-shaped leaves, the ujiper ones reduced 

 to bristle-like bracts ; those from the root very many in a dense tuft, reclined, a 

 foot or more long, 1' wide below, rough on the margin, remarkably dry and rigid 

 (whence the name IVoin ^rjpos, mid, and (f)u\\ov, leaf). 



1. X. asphodeloides, Nutt. (X. tcnax, Nntt. X. .setifolium, Micluc. 

 Helonias asphodelioides, />.) — Pine barrens, New Jersey and southward: also 

 far westward. June. 



9. HELONIAS, L. Helonias. 



Flowers perfect. Perianth of 6 spatulate-oblong ])urple sepals, persistent, 

 turning green, shorter than the thread-like filaments. Anthers 2-celled, round- 

 ish-oval, blue, extrorse. Styles revolute, stigmatic down the inner side. Pod 



