512 AMARYLLIDACE.&. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) 



3. C. parvifldrum, Salisb. (SMALLER YELLOW L.) Sepals ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate; lip flattish from above, bright yellow (I' or less long) ; sterile sta- 

 men triangular ; leaves oval, pointed. Bogs and low woods ; rather common. 

 May, June. Stem l-2high. Flower fragrant: sepals and petals more 

 brown-purple than in the next, into which, however, it seems to pass. 



4. C. pubescens, Willd. (LARGER YELLOW L.) Sepals elongated-lanceo- 

 late; lip flattened laterally, very convex and gibbous above (l r -2' long, scent- 

 less, pale yellow. Bogs and low woods : common northward and westward, 

 and southward in the Alleghanies. May, June. Stem 2 high, pubescent, as 

 are the broadly oval acute leaves. 



H- *- Sepals and petals plane, rounded, white, not longer than the lip. 



5. C. spectabile, Swartz. (Snowy L.) Sepals round-ovate or orbicu- 

 lar, rather longer than the oblong petals ; lip much inflated, white, pink purple in 

 front (lj 7 long) ; sterile stamen heart-ovate. Peat-bogs, Maine and W. New 

 England to Illinois, and southward along the Alleghanies. July. The most 

 beautiful of the genus, downy, 2 high. Leaves ovate, pt 'nted. 



* * Scape naked, Z-leaved at the base, 1 -flowered ; sepals and petals greenish, shorter 

 than the drooping lip, which has a closed flssure down its whole length in front. 



6. C. acaule, Ait. (STEMLESS L.) Sepals oblong-lanceolate, pointed, 

 nearly as long as the linear petals ; lip obovoid or oblong, rose-purple (rarely 

 white), nearly 2' long, veiny; sterile stamen rhomboid; leaves oblong. (C. 

 hiimile, Salisb.) Dry or moist woods, under evergreens : common, especially 

 northward. May, June. Plant downy : the scape 8' - 12' high, with a green 

 bract at the top. 



ORDER 115. AMARYL.L.IDACEJE. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) 



Chiefly bulbous and scape-bearing herbs, not scurfy or woolly, with linear 

 flat root-leaves, and regular (or nearly so) and perfect 6-androus flowers, 

 the tube of the corolline G-parted perianth coherent with the 3-celled ovary; the 

 lobes imbricated in the bud. Anthers introrse. Style single. Pod 3-celled, 

 several - many-seeded. Seeds anatropous or nearly so, with a straight 

 embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen. An order represented in our gar- 

 dens by the Narcissus (N. POETICUS), Jonquil (N. JONQUILLA), and Daf- 

 fodil (N. PSEUDO-NARCISSUS), the Snowdrop (GALANTHUS NIVALIS) 

 and the Snowflake (LEUCOJUM VERNUM), &c., but with very few indige- 

 nous representatives in this country. Bulbs acrid. Differs from Liliaceae 

 chiefly in the inferior ovary. 



* Pod 3-valved, loculicidal : anthers versatile : perianth funnel-shaped. 



1. Amaryllis. Flower naked in the throat ; the tube short or none. Bulbs coated. 



2. Pancratium. Flower with a slender tube and narrow recurved lobes ; a cup-shaped 



crown connecting the stamens. Bulbs coated. , 



3. Agave. Flower equally 6-cleft, persistent } no crown. Fleshy-leaved, not bulbous. 



* * Pod indehiscent ; anthers sagittate. 



4. Hypoxys. Perianth 6-parted nearly down to the ovary. Bulb solid. 



