520 LILIACE^E. (LILY FAMILY.) 



unthout tendrils : peduncles short, seldom exceeding the pedicels, terete ; the umbels 

 sometimes panicled : branches terete, unarmed. 



7. S. lanceolata, L. Leaves thinnish, rather deciduous, ovate-lanceolate 

 or lance-oblong ; stigmas 3 ; berries dull red. Southeastern Virginia and south- 

 ward. June. 



8. S. laurifdlia, L. leaves thick and coriaceous, evergreen, varying from 

 oblong-lanceolate to linear (2 ; - 5' long) ; stigma solitary ; berries black when ripe, 

 1-seeded. Pine barrens of New Jersey to Virginia and southward. July, Aug. 



2. COPROSMANTHUS, Torr. Stem herbaceous, never prickly: flowers 

 carrion-scented: ovules mostly in pairs in each cell: leaves long-petioled, mem- 

 branaceous, mucronate-tipped : berries bluish-black with a bloom. 



9. S. herbacea, L. (CARRION-FLOWER.) Stem erect and recurving, 

 or climbing ; leaves ovate-oblong or rounded, mostly heart-shaped, 1 9-nerved, 

 smooth; tendrils sometimes wanting; peduncles elongated (3' -4' long, or 

 sometimes even 6' -8', and much longer than the leaves), 20 - 40-flowered. 

 Var. PULVERULENTA (S. pulverulenta, Michx. & S. peduncularis, Muhl.) has 

 the leaves more or less soft-downy underneath. A shorter-peduncled state 

 of this appears to be S. lasioneuron, Hook. Moist meadows and river-banks : 

 common. June. Very variable, l-3, or even 6 -8 high: petioles l'-3' 

 long. Seeds 6. 



10. S. tamnifolia, Michx. Stem upright or climbing ; leaves heart-halberd- 

 shaped, 5-nerved, smooth; peduncles longer than the petioles. (S. tamnoides, 

 Pursh, not of L.} Pine barrens, New Jersey to Virginia and southward. 

 Leaves abruptly narrowed above the dilated heart-shaped base, tapering to the 

 apex. Berry 2 - 3-seeded. 



ORDER 121. LILIACE^E. (LILY FAMILY.) 



Herbs, or rarely woody plants, with regular and symmetrical almost always 

 6-androus flowers ; the perianth not glumaceous, free from the chiefly 3- 

 celled ovary ; the stamens one before each of its divisions or lobes (i. e. 6, in 

 one instance 4), with 2-celled anthers ; fruit a few -many-seeded pod or 

 berry ; the small embryo enclosed in copious albumen. Seeds anatropous or 

 amphitropous. Flowers not from a spathe, except in Allium ; the outer 

 and inner ranks of the perianth colored alike (or nearly so) and generally 

 similar, except in Trillium. A large family, as here extended, the prin- 

 cipal divisions commonly received as orders, but not well limited. For 

 the present purpose they are best regarded as tribes. 



Tribe I. TRILL.TDEJE. Styles or sessile stigmas 3, separate down to the ovary. 

 Fruit a several -many -seeded berry. Divisions or leaves of the perianth distinct, the 3 

 outer often foliaceous. Simple stem from a rootstock, naked below ; leaves all in one or 

 two whorls above, broad, more or less conspicuously netted-veined ! 



1. Trillium. Perianth of two sorts, 3 foliaceous persistent sepals and 3 colored petals. 



Anthers adnate, introrse. Leaves (3) in a single whorl. Flower single. 



2. Medeola. Perianth of 6 similar colored divisions, deciduous. Anthers fixed by the 



middle, extrorse. Leaves in two whorls. Flowers several. 



