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43a. Flowers panicled (3 6 dm. high) 



False Solomon's Seal, Smilacina racemosa. 



43b. Flowers racemed 44. 



44a. Leaves 24, usually 3 (12 dm. high) 



False Solomon's Seal, Smilacina trifolia. 

 44b. Leaves 512 (25 dm. high) 



False Solomon's Seal, Smilacina stellata. 



45a. Flowers bright blue; perianth-segments united (2 3 dm. high, 

 spring) Grape Hyacinth, Muscari botryoides. 



45b. Flowers blue, greenish, yellowish, or white; perianth-segments 

 separate 46. 



46a. Flowers 1 cm. wide, or smaller (white or greenish, in 



racemes, late spring or summer) (False Asphodel) 47. 

 46b. Flowers 1.5 cm. wide, or larger 48. 



47a. Stem glabrous (2 dm. high or less) 



False Asphodel, Tofleldia palnstris. 

 False Asphodel, Tofieldia glutinosa. 



47b. Stem viscid-pubescent (1 5 dm. high) 



48a. Perianth-segments with 2 glands near the base (3 8 dm. 

 high; greenish-white panicled flowers in summer) 



Zygadenus, Zygadenns chloraiithus. 

 48b. Perianth-segments without glands 49. 



49a. Plant 3 5 dm. tall; flowers blue or nearly white, in long ra- 

 cemes (early summer) Wild Hyacinth, Camassia esculenta, 



49b. Plant 1 3 dm. tall; flowers .greenish-white, in short corymb- 

 like racemes (spring) 



Star of Bethlehem, Ornithogalum nmbellatum. 



DIOSCOREACEAE, the Yam Family 



Twining herbs with net-veined leaves" and greenish or white 

 flowers in panicles or racemes. 



One species in Michigan; leaves ovate-cordate; flowers in summer 



Wild Yam, Dioscorea yillosa. 



AMAKYLLIDACEAE, the Amaryllis Family 



Plants with linear basal leaves, and perfect flowers, with 6-parted 

 perianth, inferior ovary, and 6 stamens. 



One species in Michigan; 1 2 dm. high; flowers yellow, 1cm. wide, 

 in spring Star Grass, Hypoxis hirsuta. 



