OKDEK 147. LILIACE^E. 341 



ORDER CXLVII. LILIACE^E. LILYWOKTS. 



Herbs with bulbous or tuberous steins, parallel-veined, sessile leaves, and 

 perfect, regular flowers, with the perianth uniformly colored and free from 

 the ovary. Stamens 6 (4 in Majanthemum), perigynous. Anthers introrse 

 (except in Uvularia). Styles wholly or partly united. Fruit a capsule or 

 beriy. Seeds albuminous. 



$ ULIACE^E proper. Style entire. Fruit a dry capsule. Plants with a scaly or coated bulb ...() 

 ASIMIODELE/E. Style entire (or 0). Fr. a dry capsule. With a caudex, root-crown, or rhiz. ..(**) 

 t ('ONVALLARINEJE. Style entire. Fr. a colored berry. Plants with a rhiz. or fibrous roots... (**") 

 S UVULARIEjE. Style 3-cleft or 3-parted. Fruit a dry capsule. Plants with a rhiz. me... (*) 



* Stem leafy above as well as at the base. Bulbs scaly. ..(A) 



* Stem (scape) sheathed at base, leafless, many-flowered... (e) 



* Stem (scape) sheathed at base, a bearing a single nodding flower EUYTHRONIUM. 1 



a bearing a solitary, erect flower TCLIPA. 2 



b Petals equalling the sepals, with a honey-groove at base LII.IUM. 3 



6 Petals equalling the sepals, with a roundish nectary at base FRITILLAKIA. 4 



b Petals much larger than sepals, nectary iu the midst, or CALOCHORTCS 5 



c Perianth segments united, forming a tubular flower... () 

 < Perianth segments distinct, not forming a tube. ..(d) 



i Flowers small, in a panicle of racemes, white NOI.I.VA. 6 



4 Flowers in a simple raceme, mostly blue SCILLA. 7 



d Flowers in a corymb, white, with bracts OB.NITHOGALU.V. 8 



d Flowers in an umbel, white or roseate, with 2 1 bracts ALLIUM. 9 



Limb of the perianth revolute, as long as the tube HYACI.NTHUS. 10 



e Limb of the perianth spreading, much shorter than tube MUSCAKI. 11 



Perianth segments united more or less into a tube. ..(/) 



Perianth segments distinct. n Flowers racemed, small, yellow SCHCENOLIKIOX. 12 



n Flowers panicled, white YUCCA. 13 



m Stamens straight, longer than the tubular, flame-colored perianth TUITOMA. 14 



m Stamens all curved upward. o Flowers in an umbel AGAPANTHUS. 15 



o Flowers cyanic, racemed. FUNKIA. 16 



y Flowers xauthic, terminal HKMEROUALUS. 17 



* Perianth segments separate, not forming a tube. ..(*) 



* Perianth segments united. Flowers greenish, axillary POLYGONATUM. 18 



v Flowers pure white, on a scape CONYALLARIA. 19 



* Scape leafless, bearing an umbel. Berry blue, 2-celled CMNTONIA. 20 



* Stem leafy, bearing the flowers solitary or in pairs. Berries red. ..(</) (See p. 447.) 



* Stem leafy, bearing a white cluster. x Flowers 6-parted SMILACINA. 21 



x Flowers 4-parted MAJANTIIKMUK. 22 



y Stems much branched, with filiform branchlets for leaves ASPARAGUS. 23 



y Stem forking, with oval leaves. z Fls. axillary. Berry QO-soeded SIKEPTOPOS. 24 



z Fls. terminal . Berry 3-6-seeded PROSABTKS. 25 



*** Stem leafy. Flowers solitary, long, yellowish, drooping UVCLARIA. 26 



1. ERYTHRONIUM, L. Perianth campauulate. Seg. recurved, the 

 3 inner ones (petals) usually with a callous tooth attached to each side at 

 base, and a groove in the middle. Style long. Caps, somewhat stipitate, 

 soeds ovate, y Lvs. 2, subradical. Scape 1 - oo-flvvd. Flowers nodding. 



I K. Aiiiericuiiuiu Sm. Yellow E. Bull) deep in the ground, sending up a scape 

 which bear* 2 unequal, lanceolate, mottled leaves at the surface of the ground. And 

 a handsome drooping yellow flower at top. Woods. 3 y. April, May. 

 /3. lirat-itniuin. Leaves very unequal ; scape with a bract near the flower. Vt. 



'& IS. albiduni N. White E. Scape naked, bearing a white drooping flower ; pctrJ 

 without teeth, narrowed to the base. Wet meadows, N. Y. to Wis. May, June. 



2. TULIP A, Tourn. TUI.IP. Perianth campanulate. Sta. short, sulxv 



