80 LEUCOJACAEAE. 



thick, smooth-edged: sepals and petals light-green, those of the staminate flow- 

 ers 6-7 mm. long: berries bluish-black, 6-7 mm. in diameter, glaucous. 

 Common, in woods and thickets. 



Order AMAEYLLIDALES. 



Perennial herbs or vines. Leaves with narrow or dilated blades. 

 Flowers perfect or dioecious, complete. Perianth of 3 sepals and 3 petals, 

 these distinct or partially united. Androecium of 3 or 6 stamens. 

 Gynoecium mostly 3-carpellary, the ovary wholly or partially inferior. 



Stamens 6. 



Upright herbs: flowers perfect. Fam. 1. LEUCOJACEAE 



Twining vines : flowers dioecious. Fam. 2. TAMACEAE 



Stamens 3. Fam. 3. IXIACEAE. ' 



FAMILY 1. LEUCOJACAEAE. AMARYLLIS FAMILY. 



Herbs, commonly succulent, with rootstocks, bulbs, or conns. Leaves 

 alternate, wholly or mainly basal. Flowers perfect, the perianth some- 

 times with a crown. Calyx of 3 sepals. Corolla of 3 petals, together 

 with the sepals partially united into a tube. Androecium of 6 stamens, the 

 filaments sometimes united into a crown. Gynoecium of 3 united carpels. 

 Ovary inferior or half -inferior. Styles united. Ovules numerous. 



Plants with corms or short rootstocks : perianth without a crown. 



Ovary, and capsule, half-inferior : capsule loculicidal. 1. ALETKIS. 



Ovary, and capsule, wholly inferior : capsule circumscissile. 2. HYPOXIS. 



Plants with coated corms : perianth with a crown. 3. NARCISSUS. 



1. ALETRIS L. Herbs with thick rootstoeks and scape-like stems. Basal 

 leaves spreading. Flowers in an interrupted spike or raceme. Perianth white 

 to yellow, campanulate, cylindric, or obovoid, granular: lobes much shorter than 

 the tube. Filaments adnate to the middle of the perianth or above it. 



1. A. farinosa L. Stem 3-12 cm. tall: blades of the basal leaves narrowly 

 oblong or elliptic, or elongate and broadly linear, 530 cm. long: perianth white 

 or cream-colored, 7-10 mm. long; lobes ovate: style elongate: capsules ovoid, 

 slender-beaked. S. Kather rare, on dry banks. Schists near serpentine. 

 Sum. COLIC-BOOT. STAR-GRASS. 



2. HYPOXIS L. Acaulescent herbs with corm-like rootstocks. Leaves 

 with elongate-linear or nearly filiform blades. Scapes slender, sometimes tufted. 

 Flowers solitary or clustered. Perianth mainly yellow. Filaments adnate to 

 the base of the perianth. 



1. H. hlrsuta (L.) Coville. Leaf -blades linear, mostly less than 4 mm. wide, 

 sparingly hirsute, prominently 1 -nerved: perianth-lobes oblong to elliptic, 6-7 

 mm. long, yellow within : capsules 4-5 mm. long. N. S. Frequent, in dry 

 often sandy soil. Shales and sandstones, schists. Sum. STAR-GRASS. 



3. NARCISSUS [Tourn.] L. Acaulescent herbs with coated corms. Leaves 

 erect or nearly so: blades elongate-linear. Scape terminated by a single flower, 

 or by a cluster, the flowers horizontal or nodding. Perianth white or variously 

 colored: tube short, produced at the base of the lobes into a cup-like or funnel- 

 form crown: lobes mostly more or less spreading. 



1. N. Pseudo-Narcissus L. Plants 2-5 dm. tall: leaves erect; blades linear, 

 flat, nearly as tall as the scape: calyx-lobes and corolla-lobes oblong to ovate, 



