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their sheaths pilose-margined. Panicles nodding, consisting of spike-like 

 racemes. Bracts ciliate. Tepals ovate-oblong, red-castaneous, the outer 

 acute-mucronate, exceeding the acute, round-trigonal capsule. Stamens 

 generally 3. 



(S. Amer.) ; S. Fuegia. (Dusen.) 



6. J. SPICATUM (DC. sub Luzula}. 



Plants rarely exceeding 15-20 cm. high, densely cespitose. Leaves 

 generally distinctly canaliculate. Inflorescence of simple outline or 

 lobate ; spikes short, thickish, mostly nodding. Flowers 2.5-3 mm - l n g> 

 variegated. Tepals castaneous, white-margined above. Stamens 6. 



(Eur., N. Amer., alpine and arctic) ; Patagon. (On pampas near Coy 

 Inlet, J. B. Hatcher. 25 cm. high ; panicle dense, ovate, erect. Scape 

 with 3 leaf-like bracts near the panicle.) 



Family 18. LILIACE^E. Lily Family. 



Herbs, usually with bulbs or corms, rarely woody plants. Flowers 

 usually hypogynous, regular, perfect and showy. Perianth leaves 6, occa- 

 sionally 4, similar, usually not united ; . stamens of the same number, 

 inserted on the base of the perianth ; anthers mostly extrorse. Ovary 

 mostly 3-celled ; style i, stigma 3-lobed. Seeds many, in 2 rows in each cell. 

 Embryo in the axis of copious endosperm. 



Species 1,300, widely distributed. 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 

 A. Herbs, all with radical or basal leaves. 



b. Flowers umbellate, when not solitary on the scape. 



c. Style 3-branched. Seeds few. I. Allium, p. 304. 



02. Stigma 3-lobed. Seeds numerous. Perianth united below into a tube, funnelform 



to campanulate. 2. Brodicea, p. 304. 



CT,. Stigma 3-lobed. Seeds numerous. Perianth united below, salver-shaped, often with 

 scales in the throat. 3. Tristagma, p. 306. 



l>2. Flowers paniculately racemose. Ovary i -celled. Polygamo-dicecious. 



4. Astelia, p. 307. 

 A2. Branching shrubs. 



b. Leaves 3-several-nerved, but not reticulate. Flowers pediceled, white. Perianth-leaves 



subequal. 5. Callixene, p. 307. 

 b2. Leaves reticulately veined, and 



c. i -nerved. Flowers nearly sessile, large, pink. Perianth-segments unequal, the inner 



much larger. 6. Philesia, p. 308. 



c2 - 3-5-nerved. Flowers very large, on slender pedicels ; perianth-segments subequal. 



Climbing. 7. Lapageria, p. 309. 



