LILY FAMILY 329 



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 LoculicidaJ capsule. 

 B. Style 1, undivided. 



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



d. Stem tall and leafy 1. Lilium 



dd. Stem short, with only 2-6 leaves. 



e. Flower erect 2. Tulipa 



ee. Flower nodding 3. Erythronium 



ddd. Stem naked, bearing many flowers. 

 e. Perianth tubular. 



F. Flowers funnelform, throat open: lobes 

 spreading or recurved, as long as the 



tube 4. Hyacinthus 



ff. Flowers urn-shaped, constricted at throat; 



lobes much shorter than tube 5. Muscari 



ee. Perianth parted nearly to base 6. Orniihogalum 



cc. Plant with a rootstock, and large clumps of 

 leaves. 

 d. Flowers yellow and paniculate on a somewhat 



branching scape 7. Hemerocallis 



dd. Flowers white or blue, mostly in a simple 



raceme 8. Fun I: in 



bb. Style 1 at base, but 3-cleft or 3-parted: flowers 



bell-like, drooping, yellow 9. Uvula ria 



aa. Fruit an angled berry: styles or stigmas 3: leaves 



broad and netted-veined 10. Trillium 



aaa. Fruit a globular berry: style 1: fls. small white, or 

 greenish. 

 b. Foliage made up of cladophylls, tin- true leaves 

 being mere scales: stamens borne on the base 



of the small corolla 11. Asparagus 



bb. Foliage of ordinary leaves: stamens borne on the 

 corolla-tube. 



c. Perianth of 6 parts, separate 12. Smilacina 



cc. Perianth of 4 parts 13. Maiantfu mum 



ccc. Perianth gamosepalous, with 6 lobes. 



d. Flowers racemose on a scape 14. Coitvallariu 



dd. Flowers hanging from the axils of the leaves.. 15. Polygonatum 



1. LILIUM. Lily. 



Strong-growing bulbous herbs, with leafy stems usually bearing several 

 or many Sowers: perianth bell-shaped or funnelform, the <> divisions nearly 

 nr quite separate and spreading or recurving and having a honey-bearing 

 groove at the base: anthers attached by the middle (versatile). 



