flO ORDER 148. LTLIACEJE. 



margin rough-serrulate ; segm. oblong, acutish. Thickets, near the sea-coast, S. 

 Car. to Fla. A shrubby, palm-like plant, of singular and forbidding aspect when 

 not in flower. Leaves a foot or more long, sharp and rigid like daggers, Fls. 

 white, with a violet base and violet spots. Jn. Aug. (Y. Draconis L.) 



6. NOirNA, L. C. Rich. (For P. C. Nolin, an American botan- 

 ist.) Dicecio-polygamous ; perianth (small) of 6, ovate, spreading, sub- 

 equal segments ; stamens 6, shorter than the perianth ; ovary free, 3- 

 cornered, 3-celled ; stigmas 3, recurved, with a very short style ; cap- 

 sule 3-winged, 3 (or by abortion 2 or l)-seeded. Root bearing a coated 

 bulb. St. scape-like, branched into several long, simple, nearly bract- 

 less racemes of very small, white fls. 



N. Georgiana MX. Dry sand hills, S, Car. and Ga. (Mettauer), Bulb very 

 large (Elliott). Scape 2 to 3f high, with a few short Ivs. at its base r which dimin- 

 ish to scales upwards. Root Ivs. linear, 1 to 2f long, numerous, recurved, their 

 bases much dilated and imbricated. Panicle large. Rrvc. loose, If or more long. 

 Pedicels 5 to 6" long. Perianth spreading 3". 



7. SCIL/LA, L. SQUILL. Perianth 6-parted, petals and sepals simi- 

 lar, spreading (blue or purple) ; filaments C, subulate or filiform, smooth, 

 hypogynous ; style filiform-clavellate ; capsule free, 3-celled, 3-valved, 

 obtusely 3-angled ; cells with 1 or several roundish, black seeds. Bulb 

 coated, bearing several linear Ivs. and a scape with a raceme. 



1 S. esculenta Ker. QUAMASH. Lvs. linear, carinate, flaccid and recurved; 

 tapering to both ends, shorter than the scape ; bracts solitary, subulate, scarious r 

 longer than the pedicels, which are about the length of the flowers ; fil. filiform ; 

 stig. 3-toothed. Grassy, wet prairies, along the rivers, "Wis. to Ohio, the uplands 

 of Ga., and westward. Bulb nutritious, about 1' diam., resembling a small 

 onion. Scapo I to 2f high. Lvs. nearly as Ioug r grass-like. Rac. 2 10 3' long. 

 Pet. and sep. linear-lanceolate, 4 to 6"" long. Anth. oblong, yellow. May. 

 (Phalangium, Nutt. Camassia, Lincll. C. Fraseri Torr.) Improves by cultiva- 

 tion as to the size both of the bulbs and flowers. 



2 S praebracteata Haw. SQUILL. Lvs. broad-linear,, longer than tho 

 scape ; bracts as long as the pedicels ; fioweis in a large conical panicle ~ r perianth 

 spreading, persistent. Bulb large, white. Fls. blue, y S. Eur. 



8. ORWITHOG'ALUM, L. STAR-OF-BETHLEHEM. (Gr. 6pviOo$ r of a 

 bird, ya/la, milk ; why so-called is not obvious.) Perianth deeply 6- 

 parted, regular, persistent, segments many (3 to 7)-veincd, spreading, 

 (white, green or yellow) ; filaments 6, dilated at base, scarcely perigy- 

 nous, ovary free ; style erect, tapering or subtrilobate ; capsule 3-lobed, 

 3-celled, 3-valved above ; seeds few or many in each cell y shining, 

 black. Bulbous plants, scarcely differing from Scilla except in the 

 color of the fls. 



1 O. croceum Ell. YELLOW STAR-OF-BETIILEIIEM. Lvs. narrowly linear, radi- 

 ical, longer than the slender scape which bears an oblong raceme of sa/ron-ydlow 

 flowers at top ; bracts scarious at apex r obtuse, sheathing, many times shorter 

 than the slender pedicel ; segm. lance-ovate, obtuse, 3-veined r erect after fiower- 

 ing, with a greenish-orange stripe on the back ; sty. and stam. subulate, shorter 

 than the segments. Mid. Ga., rare. (On Stone Mt, IGm. from Atlanta f Also 

 at Macon, Dr. Mettauer.) Scape 10 to 20' high, almost filiform. Rac. 10 to 15- 

 flowered. Ped. 8 to 12" long, fls. half as long. Apr., May. (Phalangium MX., 

 Nutt.) 



2 O. iimbellattim L. "WHITE STAU-OF-EETHLEHEM. Lvs. linear, channeled, a* 

 long as the scaj)e, emarginate ; scape bearing a few white, green-striped Jls. in a 

 loose corymb ; pedicels longer than the bracts ; filaments lanceolate-subulate. 

 Gardens, and naturalized in many localities. Scape near If high. Segm. of th& 

 star-like perianth beautifully marked with a longitudinal stripe on the outside. May. 



