432 LILY FAMILY. 



* * Herbs with ordinary broad leaves. 



<- Perianth bell-shaped, of 6 (4 in No. 7) separate and similar deciduous divisions; sta- 

 mens on the receptacle or nearly so. 



H- Flowers erect, few or several in an umbel on a naked scape. 



8. CLINTONIA. Base of the scape sheathed by the stalks of a few large oval or oblong 

 and ciliate root leaves. Filaments long and slender ; anthers linear or oblong. Style 

 long. Ovary 2-3-celled, becoming a blue berry. Kootstocks creeping, like those of 

 Lily of the Valley, which the leaves also resemble. 



-H- Flowers single or few, hanging at the end of the leafy spreading branches, or sub- 

 axillary. 



4. DISPORUM. Flowers on slender simple stalks, yellowish. Divisions of the perianth 



lanceolate or linear. Filaments much longer than the linear-oblong blunt anthers. 

 Ovary with a pair of hanging ovules in each of the 3 cells, becoming an ovoid or 

 oblong and pointed red berry. Eootstock short, not creeping ; herbage downy. 



5. STEEPTOPUS. Flowers single or rarely in pairs along the leafy and forking stem, 



just out of the axils of the ovate clasping leaves ; the slender peduncle usually bent 

 in the middle. Divisions of the perianth lanceolate, acute, the three inner ones 

 keeled. Anthers arrow-shaped, on short and flattish filaments. Ovary 3-celled, 

 making a red many-seeded berry. 



H- -H- -H- Flowers in terminal racemes. 



6. SMILACINA. Raceme or cluster of racemes terminating a leaf-bearing stem. Flowers 



small, white. Perianth 6-parted. Filaments slender; anthers short. Ovary 3- 

 celled, making a berry. Rootstocks mostly creeping. 



7. MAIANTHEMUM. Stein low, only 2-leaved. Flower 4-parted, with 4 stamens, 2- 



celled ovary and 2-lobed stigma. 



+- *- Perianth of one piece, more or less deeply lobed, the stamens inserted on 



the tube. 



H- Segments 6 ; flowers on a conspicuous scape or a leafy stem. 



8. CONVALLAEIA. Flowers nodding in a one-sided raceme, on an angled scape whicfc 



rises, with the (about) two oblong leaves, from a running rootstock. Perianth short 

 bell-shaped, with 6 recurving lobes. Stamens included. Style stout. Ovary with 

 several ovules, becoming a few-seeded red berry. 



9. POLYGONATUM. Flowers nodding in the axils of the leaves along a leafy and re- 



curving simple stem, which rises from a long and thickened rootstock. Perianth 

 greenish, cylindrical, 6-lobed or 6-toothed, bearing the 6 included stamens at or 

 above the middle of the tube. Style slender. Ovary 3-celled with few ovules in 

 each cell, in fruit becoming a globular black or blue few-seeded berry. 



H--H- Segments 8 ; flowers inconspicuous because borne close to the ground. 



10. ASPIDISTRA. Eemarkable because the lurid-purple flowers are borne at the surface 

 of the ground upon 1-flowered scapes. Stamens 8. Stigma broadly pellate, mush- 

 room-like. Leaves with a distinct petiole and ovate-lanceolate limb, all radical. 



III. BELLWOKT SUBFAMILY. With alternate and 

 broad not grass-like parallel-veined leaves ; stem from a root- 

 stock or from fibrous roots, branching and leafy ; style one at 

 the base, but 3-cleft or 3-parted. Fruit a pod, few-seeded. 

 Anthers turned rather outwards than inwards. Perianth of 6 

 almost similar and wholly separate pieces, deciduous. JJTot 

 acrid nor poisonous. Plants intermediate between the preced- 

 ing group and the next two. 



