468 LILIACEJS. (LILY FAMILY.) 



1. C. majalis, L. High Alleghanies of Virginia, and southward. 

 May. Same as the European plant so common in gardens. (Eu.) 



5. CL, INTO MI A, Raf. CLINTOKIA. 



Perianth of 6 separate sepals, bell-shaped, lily-like, deciduous; the 6 stamens 

 inserted at their base. Filaments long and thread-like : anthers linear-oblong. 

 Ovary ovoid-oblong, 2-3-celled: style long, columnar-thread-like: stigma de- 

 pressed. Berry ovoid, blue, few - many-seeded. Stemless perennials, with 

 slender creeping rootstocks, producing a naked scape sheathed at the base by 

 the stalks of 2-4 large oblong or oval ciliate leaves. Flowers rather large, um- 

 belled, rarely single, somewhat downy outside. (Dedicated to De Witt Clinton.) 



1. C. borealiS, Raf. Umbd few- (2-7-) flowered; ovules 20 or more. 

 (Dracaena borealis, Ait.) Cold moist woods, Massachusetts to Wisconsin and 

 northward, and southward in the Alleghanies. June. Scape and leaves 5' -8 

 long. Perianth over ' long, greenish-yellow. 



2. C. nmbellata, Torr. Umbel many-flowered; ovules 2 in each cell. 

 (C. multiflora, Beck. Convallaria umbellulata, Michx. Smilacina, Desf.) 

 Rich woods, S. W. New York, and southward along the Alleghanies. June. 



JFlowers half the size of the last, white, speckled with green or purplish dots. 



6. HEMEROCALLIS, L. DAY-LILY. 



Perianth funnel-form, lily-like ; the short tube enclosing the ovary, the spread- 

 ing limb 6-parted ; the 6 stamens inserted on its throat. Filaments and stylo 

 long and thread-like, declined and ascending : stigma simple. Pod rather fleshy, 

 3-angled, 3-valved, with several black spherical seeds in each cell. Showy pe- 

 rennials, with fleshy-fibrous roots ; the long and linear keeled leaves 2-ranked at 

 the base of the tall scapes, which bear at the summit several bracted large yellow 

 flowers : these collapse and decay after expanding for a single day (whence the 

 name, from fjpepa, a day, and KaAXos, beauty). 



1. H. FULVA, L. (COMMON DAY-LILY.) Inner divisions (petals) of the 

 tawny orange perianth wavy and obtuse. Sparingly escaped from gardens, 

 where it is common. July. (Adv. from Eu.) 



H. FLAVA, L., the YELLOW DAY-LILY, is commonly cultivated. The 

 White and the Blue Day-Lilies of the gardens are species of FUNKIA, a very 

 different genus. 



7. ORNITHOOAL.UM, Tourn. STAR-OF-BETHLBHEM. 



Perianth of 6 colored (white) spreading sepals, 3-7-nerved. Filaments 6, 

 flattened-awl-shaped. Style 3-sided : stigma 3-angled. Pod membranous, 

 roundish-angular, with few dark and roundish seeds in each cell. Scape and 

 linear channelled leaves from a coated bulb. Flowers corymbed, bracted. (An 

 ancient whimsical name from opvis, a bird, and -yaXa, milk.) 



1. O. TTMBELLATUM, L. Flowers 5-8, on long and spreading pedicels; 

 sepals green in the middle on the outside. Escaped from gaidens inU 

 meadows, eastward. June. (Nat. from Eu.) 



