LILY FAMILY, 

 i. Quamasia hyacinthina (Raf.) Britton. Wild Hyacinth. 



Lemotryshyacinthina Raf. Fl. Tell. 3: 51. i - 

 Sell la Fmseri A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 469. 1856. 



./a Eraser i Torr. Pac. R. R. Rep. 4: 147. 



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Bulb ovoid, i / -i^ / long, its outer coat 

 usually nearly black. Scape slender, i-2 

 tall, sometimes bearing i or 2 short linear 

 scarious leaves; basal leaves narrowly linear, 

 acuminate, shorter than the scape, l}4"- 

 \" wide; raceme open, 3 '-8' long in flower, 

 anger in fruit; flowers several or many; 

 iicels filiform, 6 // -io // long, about as 

 >ng as the bracts and the perianth-seg- 

 icnts; bracts long-acuminate; pcrianth- 

 egmeuts narrowly oblong, 3~5-nerved, blue 

 nearly white, longer than the stamens; 

 ipsule about 4" high, 5 // -6 // thick, the 

 Ives transversely veined. 



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Fig. i. 



In meadows and along streams, Pennsylva- 

 lia to Minnesota, Alabama and Texas. Ascends 

 i 2100 ft. in Virginia. April-May. 







xx. ORNITHOGALUM L. Sp. PI. 306. i 



Scapose herbs, with coated bulbs, narrow basal fleshy leaves, and large white or yellow 

 lowers in a terminal bracted corymb or raceme. Perianth -segments equal or nearly *o, *ep- 

 itc, white, or sometimes green without, persistent, faintly several-nerved. Stamen* bypo- 

 jynous; filaments flattened, often broad; anthers versatile, introrae. Ovary 3-celled, CMtlc. 

 yules several or numerous in each cavity; style short or columnar, 3-sided; stigma capitate. 

 3-lobed or 3-ridged. Capsule subglobose, 3-sided or 3-lobed, loculicidal. Seed* black. 

 [Greek, signifying bird's milk, said to be in allusion to the egg-white color of the flower* 

 some species.] 



About 75 species, natives of Europe, Asia and Africa. 



lowers corymbose, erect; pedicels long, slender. 

 lowers racemose, drooping; pedicels very short, stout. 



i. Ornithogalum umbellatum 

 Star-of- Bethlehem. (Fig. 101 



Ornithogalum iiiiiMlatttm L. S- I iTSJ- 



Tufted, bulbs ovoi.l. '.' '.-' long, the 

 coats membranous. Scape sleml< 

 high; leaves narrowly linear, 

 dark green with a light tnidvcin. blunt. 

 equalling or longer than the scape*; flower* 

 corymbose, opening in sunshine; bracts mem- 

 branous, linear-lanceolate, moatly *borter 

 than the pedicels; pcdi. - "r ascend- 



ing. the lower i'-3' long; perianth atg 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, white above, 

 with white margin* beneath. 

 about twice as long a* the stamens; nlamcab 

 somewhat flattened, not toothed. 



iinia and Virmma. 

 Natnrali/l fn.m 





