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seeds in each cell. Leaves and scape (in early spring) from a coated bulb : the 

 small flowers in a dense raceme, sometimes musk-scented (whence the name). 



1. M. BOTRYOIDES, Mill. Leaves linear ; flowers globular (1^" -2" long), 

 deep blue, appearing like minute grapes ; whence the popular name. Escaped 

 from gardens into copses and fence-rows, E. Penn., &c. (Adv. from Eu.) 



26. HEMEKOCALLIS, L. DAY-LILT. 



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

 ing limb 6-parted ; the 6 stamens inserted on its throat. Anthers as in Lily, 

 more or less extrorse. Filaments and style long and thread-like, declined and 

 ascending : stigma simple. Pod (at first rather fleshy) 3-angled, loculicidally 

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

 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 and large yellow 

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

 the name, from fjp.fpa, a day, and fcdAAos, beauty). 



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

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

 where it is common (as is also the bright yellow-flowered H. FLAVA). July. 

 (Adv. from Eu.) 



27. YUCCA, L. BEAR-GRASS. SPANISH BAYONET. 



Perianth of 6 petal-like (white) oval or oblong and acute flat sepals, wither- 

 ing-persistent, the 3 inner broader, longer than the 6 stamens. Stigmas 3, 

 sessile. Pod oblong, somewhat 6-sided, 3-celled, or imperfectly 6-celled by a 

 partition from the back, fleshy, at length loculicidally 3-valved from the apex. 

 Seeds very many in each cell, depressed. Stems woody, either very short, or 

 rising into thick and columnar palm-like trunks, bearing persistent rigid linear 

 or sword-shaped leaves, and terminated by an ample compound panicle of showy 

 (often polygamous) flowers. (An aboriginal name.) 



1. Y. filamentosa, L. (ADAM'S NEEDLE.) Trunk (from a running 

 rootstock) rising for a foot or less above the earth, covered with the lanceolate 

 unarmed coriaceous leaves (1 2 long), which bear filaments on their margins; 

 scape-like flower-stem 6 - 8 high, erect. Sandy soil, E. Virginia and south- 

 ward. July. 



28. NARTHECITJM, Mcehring. BOG-ASPHODEL. 



Sepals 6, linear-lanceolate, yellowish, persistent. Filaments 6, woolly: an- 

 thers linear, introrse. Pod cylindrical-oblong, pointed with the undivided style 

 and single stigma, loculicidal, many-seeded. Seeds appendaged at each end 

 with a long bristle-form tail, as in many species of Juncus. Rootstock creep- 

 ing, bearing linear equitant leaves (as in Tofieldia), and a simple stem or 

 scape, terminated by a simple dense raceme. (Name from vapdr)Kiov, a rod, or 

 a box for fragrant ointments, of obscure application.) 



1. N. OSSifragum, Huds. Herb with scape about a foot high, longer 

 than the leaves: pedicels mostly bracteolate. (Eu.) 



