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Family 19. 



MELANTHACBAE. 



4. Uvularia puberula Michx. Mountain 

 Bellwort. (Fig. 989.) 



Uvularia puberula Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 199. 1803. 

 Oakesia puberula S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 269. 1879. 



Stem rather stout, sparingly rough-pubescent with 

 short hairs, at least on the forks. Leaves oblong, oval 

 or ovate; rough -margined, firm and i^ / -3 / long when 

 mature, sessile, acute at the apex, obtuse, subcordate 

 or sometimes narrowed at the base, shining, green on 

 both sides, the midvein sometimes pubescent; flowers 

 light 3 T ellow, about i' long; styles exceeding the 

 stamens; capsule sharply 3-angled, acute at both ends, 

 sessile or very nearly so on the short peduncle, 10"- 

 12" long. 



In mountain woods, Virginia and West Virginia to 

 South Carolina. Ascends to 5000 ft. in Virginia. May- 

 June. 



42. 1763. 





LILIACEAE Adans. Fam. PI. 



LII.Y FAMILY. 



Scapose or leafy-stemmed herbs from bulbs or corms, or rarely with root- 

 stocks or a woody caudex {Agave), the leaves various. Flowers solitary or 

 clustered, regular, mostly perfect. Perianth parted into 6 distinct or nearly dis- 

 tinct segments, or these more or less united into a tube, inferior or partly 

 superior (Aletris}. Stamens 6, hypogynous or borne on the perianth or at the 

 bases of its segments; anthers 2 -celled, mostly introrse, sometimes extrorse. 

 Ovary 3-celled; ovules few or numerous in each cavity, anatropous or amphitro- 

 pous; styles united; stigma 3-lobed or capitate. Fruit a loculicidal capsule 

 (septicidal in Calochortus) , or in Agave sometimes fleshy and indehiscent. 

 Seeds various, winged or wingless. Embryo in copious endosperm. 

 About 125 genera and 1300 species, widely distributed. 



HS Plants bulbous, or with rootstocks, or fibrous-fleshy roots. 

 Ovary superior, not adnate to the perianth. 



Roots fibrous-fleshy; scape tall; flowers orange or yellow. 

 Low fleshy herb with a short rootstock; flowers white. 

 Plants with bulbs or corms. 

 Flowers umbelled. 

 Perianth 6-parted. 



Odor characteristically onion-like ; ovules i or 2 in each cavity 

 Odor not onion -like; ovules several in each cavity. 

 Perianth funnelform, the tube about as long as the lobes. 

 Flowers solitary, racemed, corymbed or panicled. 

 Anthers not introrse. 



Perianth-segments all alike or nearly so; capsule loculicidal. 

 Anthers versatile ; tall herbs. 

 Anthers not versatile; low herbs. 



Stem leafy; flowers leafy-bracted. 

 Leaves only 2, appearing basal; flowers bractless. 

 Outer segments narrower than the inner; capsule septicidal. 

 Anthers introrse. 



Perianth of 6 separate segments. 

 Filaments filiform. 

 Filaments flattened. 



Perianth globose, oblong or urn-shaped. 

 Ovary half inferior; roots fibrous; flowers racemed. 



**Stem a woody caudex; leaves rigid, mostly bearing marginal fibres. 



i. HEMEROCALLIS L. Sp. PI. 324. 1754. 



Tall glabrous herbs, with fibrous fleshy roots, basal linear leaves and large mostly orange 

 or yellow flowers clustered at the ends of leafless scapes. Perianth funnelform, its lobes ob- 

 long or spatulate, much longer than the cylindric tube. Stamens 6, inserted at the summit 

 of the perianth -tube, shorter than the lobes, declined; filaments filiform; anthers linear- 

 oblong, the sacs introrsely dehiscent. Ovary oblong, 3-celled; ovules numerous in each cav- 

 ity; style slender, declined, tipped with a small capitate stigma. Capsule oblong or ovoid. 

 thick-walled, 3-angled, transversely wrinkled, loculicidally 3-valved. [Greek, signifying 

 beautiful for a day.] 



About 5 species, natives of Europe and Asia. 



1. Hemerocallis. 



2. Leucocrinntu. 



3. Alii um. 



4. Xothoscordinn. 



5. A iidrostepliin i . 



6. J.ilium. 



7. Fritillaria. 



8. Erythronium. 

 o. Calocliortits. 



10. (Juamasta. 



11. Ornithogalum. 



12. Muscari. 



13. Aletris. 



14. Yucca. 



