ORDER 148. LILIACE^E. 709 



8 It. CeindicUim. L. WHITE LILY. Lvs. scattered, graded, lanceolate, nar- 

 rowed at the base ; fls. several, campanulate, smooth inside. Gardens. It has a 

 thick stem, 4f high, supporting a raceme of very large, snowy-white fls., which 

 Lave long been regarded as the very perfection of whiteness and purity. Jl. 

 f Levant Fig. 3. 



9 Ii. Japonicnm Thunb. Lvs. scattered, lanceolate; flower solitary, cam- 

 panulate, nodding. Greenhouse. A noble species, requiring careful man- 

 agement. Its flower is large, nodding, terminal, white, on a stem 2f high, 

 f China. 



4. FRITILLA'RIA, Tourn. CHEQUERED LILY. (Lat. fritillus, a 

 cli ess-board ; alluding to the chequered petals.) Perianth campanu- 

 late, with a broad base and nectariferous cavity above the claw of each 

 segment ; stamens as long as the petals ; stigma trifid ; capsule coria- 

 ceous, 3-celled, scptifragal. Herbs with coated bulbs, simple, leafy 

 stems, bearing 1 or more nodding fls. 



1 F. imperialis L. CROWN IMPERIAL. Eac. comous, naked below; Ivs. 

 entire. Native of Persia. A fine, showy flower, of easy culture. Stem thick, 

 striate, 3f high, the lower part invested with the long, narrow, entire leaves; the 

 upper part is naked, bearing at the top a raceme of several large, red or yellow, 

 nodding flowers, beneath a crown formed by the pairs of small, narrow leaves, at 

 the base of each pedicel May. f (Petilium, Kunth.) 



2. F. maleagris L. Lvs. alternate, linear, channeled; st. 1-fiowered. 

 Native of Britain. Stem a foot high, with alternate, long, very narrow leaves. 

 The flower, which is usually solitary, is large, nodding, and beautifully chequered 

 with purple and pale red or yellow. May. f 



5. YUC'CA, L. BEAR'S-GRASS. SPANISH DAGGERS. (The Indian 

 name.) Perianth of 6 petaloid segments, withering-persistent, the in- 

 ner broader; stamens 6, shorter than the petals, inserted into their 

 base ; ovary free ; stigmas 3, sessile ; capsule oblong, obtusely hexago- 

 nal, 3-valved at apex, 3-celled, cells more or less divided by a false dis- 

 sepiment; seeds numerous and 2-rowed in each cell. Sts. subterranean, 

 or arising in a leafy or naked caudex, with rigid, linear, or sword- 

 shaped, perennial Ivs., and a terminal panicle of showy, white, pedicel- 

 late fls. 



Caudex scarcely arising above the ground. Leaf margin bearing threads No. 1 



Caudex conspicuous, trunk-like. Leaves entire or serrulate Nos. 2, 8 



1 Y. filamentosa L. BEAR'S-THREAD. Acaulescent or nearly so ; Ivs. linear- 

 lanceolate, rigidly acute, coriaceous, the margin filamentous, that is, bearing long, 

 thread-like fibers; segm. lance-ovate, acuminate, erect-spreading. In light soils, 

 8. States, and often cultivated. The Ivs. are nearly erect, 1 to 2f long, 1' to 18" 

 wide, all densely clustered at the top of the short caudex, which is at the surface 

 of the ground, or a few inches above it. Scape 5 to 8f high, bearing a large 

 pyramidal panicle of simple racemes. Fls. cup-shaped, segm. 15" long. Aug. 



(3. RECURVIFOLIA. Somewhat caulescent ; Ivs. lance-linear or linear, recurved, 

 rarely somewhat filamentous. (Y. recurvifolia Salisb. ?) 



2 Y. gloriosa L. Caulescent, caudex some 3f high ; Ivs. erect, lanceolate, rigid, 

 thick, subplicate, very acute, the margins very entire ; perianth ovoid-campanu- 

 late, segm. lanceolate. Sandy sea-coasts, Car. to Fla. Caudex half-shrubby, 

 thick, simple, fleshy, strongly scarred below with the old leaf-stalks. Lvs. 12 to 

 18' long, 2 to 3' wide, clustered above. Panicle of racemes 2 to 3f long, erect 

 from the summit of the caudex, with numerous cup-shaped, white, nodding flowers. 

 Jn., Jl. f 



3 Y. aioefolia TValt. SPANISH DAGGERS. Caulescent; caudex some lOf high, 

 often branched, naked and marked with leaf-scars below; Ivs. densely clustered 

 above, very rigid, thick, strict, de-flexed when old, lanceolate, apex spinescent, 



