liliagejE. (lily family.) 535 



seeds in each cell. — Leaves and scape (in early spring) from a coated bulb : the 

 small flowers in a dense raceme, sometimes musk-scented (whence the naine). 



1. M. BOTRYOiDKS, Mill. Lcavcs linear ; flowers globulur ( 1 j" - 2" long), 

 deep blue, appearing like minute grapes; whence the popular name. — Escaped 

 from gardens into copses and fence-rows, E. Penn., &c. (Adv. from Eu.) 



26. HEMEROCALLIS, L. Day-Lilv. 



Perianth funnel-form, lily-like ; the short tube enclosing the ovary, the spread- 

 ing limb G-parted ; the 6 stamens inserted on its throat. Anthers as in Lily, 

 more or less extrorse. Filaments and style long and thread-like, declined and 

 ascending : stigma simple. Pod (at first rather fleshy) 3-angled, loculicidally 

 3-valved, with several black spherical seeds in each cell. — Showy pei'ennials, 

 with fleshy-fibrous roots ; the long and linear keeled leaves 2-ranked at the base 

 of the tall scapes, which bear at the summit sevei'al bractcd and large yellow 

 flowers: these collapse and decay after expanding for a single day (whence 

 the name, from rjixfpa, a day, and /cdXXos, btautij). 



1. H. Fi'iLVA, L. (Common Day-Lily.) Liner divisions (petals) of the 

 tawny orange perianth wavy and obtuse. — Roadsides, escaped from gardens, 

 where it is common (as is also the bright yellow-flowered H. fl.ava). July. 

 (Adv. Irom Eu.) 



27. YUCCA, L. Bear-Grass. Spanish Bayoxkt. 



Perianth of 6 petal-like (white) oval or oblong and acute flat sepals, wither- 

 ing-persistent, tiie 3 inner broader, longer than the 6 stamens. Stigmas 3, 

 sessile. Pod oblong, somewhat 6-sidcd, 3-celled, or imperfectly 6-celled by a 

 partition from the back, fleshy, at length loculicidally 3-valvcd fi-om the apex. 

 Seeds very many in each cell, depressed. — Stems woody, either very short, or 

 rising into thick and colunmar palm-like trunks, bearing persistent rigid linear 

 or s word-shaped leaves, and terminated by an ample compound panicle of showy 

 (often polygamous) flowers. (An aboriginal name.) 



1. Y. filamentbsa, L. (Adam's Needle.) Trunk (from a running 

 rootstock) rising for a foot or less above the earth, covered with the lanceolate 

 iinaritied coriaceous leaves (l°-2'^ long), which heai\/iliime)ils on their margins; 

 scape-like flower-stem 6° -8° high, erect. — Sandy soil, E. Virginia and south- 

 ward. July. 



28. NARTHECIUM, Mochring. Bog-Aspiiodel. 



Sepals 6, linear-lanceolate, yellowish, persistent. Filaments G, woolly: an- 

 thers linear, introrse. Pod cylindrical-oblong, pointed witli the undivided style 

 and single stigma, loculicidal, many-seeded. Seeds appcndaged at each end 

 with a long bristle-form tail, as in many species of Juncus. — Rootstock creep- 

 ing, bearing linear equitant leaves (as in Tofieldia), and a simple stem or 

 scape, terminated by a simple dense raceme. (Name from vap6l]<iov, a rod, or 

 a box for fraijrntit ointments, of obscure application.) 



1. N. OSSifragum, Huds. — Herb with scape about a foot high, longer 

 than the leaves: pedicels mostly bracteolate. (Eu.) 



