LILIACE^. (LILY FAMILY.) 84o 



2. SISYRINCHIUM, L. Bllk kykd Giia««. 



Perianth 6-parted. Capsule ineinl)raim(0()us, siihplolHJse.— Siimiih itimple 

 or branched, usually geniculate and winged, with linear-lanc-e».lat«' .ir j,'raiM»-like 

 radical leaves, and fugacious tluwers on slender pedicels, rluj*tere«l withiu 

 2 sheathing herbaceous bracts, with a scari.jus bnutlet hubtending each 

 pedicel. 



1. S. anceps, L. Scape bruaclli/ iriuffed, and the outer le:if of the vorv 



uniHiual spathe lunger than tlie (lowers. '>. /i< imndiaiui, var. anrrpa, of 



(Jray's ALanual. In the Atlantic Stiites, but extending wt^iward to the 

 Wasatcli and Uintas {Watson). 



2. S. mucronatum, Mil h.\. Scajjc slender and rianoiWy k/hv^/,- leiivot 

 very narrow, tliuse of the spathe shar|)-pointed and unc(|ual, one of iheni 

 usually longer than the flowers. — S. Bermudiamt, var. nmrrunalum, of Gray'n 

 Manual. Same range as last, but extending farther westward. 



Order 78. A]!I4RYLLIDACE.«:. 



Like lAliacece, but ovary inferior. Differs from Lidacea in haviug 

 six stamens and leaves not equitaut. 



1. HYPOXyS, L. Star-grass. 



Perianth persistent, spreading; the 3 outer divisions a little herhaceon.'* 

 outside. Pod crowned with the withered or closed perianth. Seed.H globular. 

 — Stemless small herbs, with grassy and hairy linear leaves and slender few- 

 flowered scapes, from a solid bulb. 



1. H. juncea, Smith. Sparingly hairy: scapes 1 to 3, filiform. 1 or 

 2-flowered, 4 to 9 inches long : bracts l)ristle-like, sht)rter than the villou.H 

 pedicels : the three exterior divisions of the perianth greenish and hairy with- 

 out: seeds black, minutely fitted. — Colorado (lirandetjcr). 



Order 79. LILIACE^. (Lily Family.) 



Terrertrial plants, mostly liorbaooous, with perfect flowers, a rrgulai 

 corolla-like G-cloft or divid^'d jM-riaiith, stamens opp<»sito the se/fnionta, 

 ovary 3-celled and superior becoming a few <>r many-seoded 3-collod 

 capsule or berry. — Stems chiefly frnm tunicated «»r scaly bulbs, or 

 corms, or rhizomes. — Watson's Revision, Proc. Am. Acad. xiv. '2\'X 



I. Flowers with soarioiis hrarts, a jiprsistent neri.inth with sr^niipnts one t<> Krvrmliirn-r<l, 

 pehgynous stamens with iritrorse anthers, and an nndiviJwl and mostly |>cnil«tfnt 

 style. 

 • Inflorescence umbellate upon n naked scape from a bulb or conn ; anulle upon a •bori 



rt>otsto<'k in Ijeucorrinum. 



♦- Bracts (usually 2) broad and simthaceourt : capsule more or 1m8 dwpljr lolwd : peiUnU 



cleft nearly to the Iwae : bulb mostly tunlcalod 



