LILIACF.F L'HI 



superior, usually 3-loculed, ripening into a capsule or berry. About 

 200 genera, including more than 2,000 widely distributed species. 

 Characteristic plants are lily, Lily -of -the -valley, onion, Solomon's 

 seal, tulip, trillium, hyacinth, asparagus, yucca. 



a. Fruit a locnlicidal capsule: style 1. 



B. Plant bulbous: root-leaves not in large clumps. 



0. Stem tall anil leafy 1. [.ilium 



CC. Stem shorter, with only 2 to 6 leavi -. 



i>. Flower erect 2. T>ilii"i 



i>i>. Flower nodding ::. Erythronium 



ccc. Stem naked, bearing many flowers 4. ffyaeinthut 



bb. Plant with a rootstock, ami large clamps of leaves. 

 c. Flowers yellow, paniculate on a somewhat branch- 

 ing scape 5. // //>x->"" Ilia 



cc. Flowers white or bine, mostly in a simple raceme. '>. Funkia 

 aa. Fruit an angled berry: styles or Btigmas '' leaves 



broad ami aetted-veined 7. Trilliutn 



aaa. Fruit a globular berry: style i: t!-. -mall, white, or 

 greenish. 

 b. Foliage made up of cladophylla, the true leaves 

 being mere -call--: Btamens borne on tie- base 



of the small corolla 8. I sparagua 



bb. Foliage of ordinary leaves: Btamens bono- on 'be 

 corolla-tube. 



o. Perianth of 6 separate part- 9. Smilacina 



Perianth gamopetalous, with 6 lobes. 



d. Flowers racemose "ii a -cape 10. Convallaria 



]>!. Flowers hanging from the axils of leaves. ..11. Polygonatum 



i. LlLIUM. Lily. 



Strong-growing bulbous herb-, with leafy stems nsuall) bearing sev- 

 eral "i- many flowers: perianth bill Bhaped or funnelform, tin- 6 divisions 

 nearly or quite separate ami spreading "r recurving ami having a hone) 

 bearing groove at the base: anther* attached by the middle (versatili 



a. FlOWl rt ii I' if' . 



L. longiflbrum, 'I'liuiib. Easter lily. One t" l ft., with scattered long 

 lanceolate pointed leavi i: flo - in. long, borisontal, scarcel) i'i' 



from the base to the middle, fragrant. Japan and China, now much cul 

 tivated under glass. Man) of the bulb- are grown in the Bermuda l-laml-. 

 whence 'be name " Bermuda 111) ." 



L. oandidum, Linn. I chttt III broad lanceolate, 



scattered: flowers numerous, "i in. or b widening gradual!) from 



tin- base. Europe, < lommon In 



