710 ORDER 148. LTLIACE^E. 



margin rough-serrulate ; segm. oblong, acutish. Thickets, near the sea- coast, S. 

 Car. to Fla. A shrubby, palm-like plant, of singular and forbidding aspect when 

 not in flower. Leaves a foot or more long, sharp and rigid like daggers. Fls. 

 white, with a violet base and violet spots. Jn. Aug. (Y. Draconis L.) 



6. NOLFNA, L. C. Rich. (For P. C. Nolm, an American botan- 

 ist.) Dicecio-polygamous ; perianth (small) of 6, ovate, spreading, sub- 

 equal segments ; stamens 6, shorter than the perianth ; ovary free, 3- 

 cornered, 3-celled ; stigmas 3, recurved, with a very short style ; cap- 

 sule 3-winged, 3 (or by abortion 2 or l)-seeded. Root bearing a coated 

 bulb. St. scape-like, branched into several long, simple, nearly bract- 

 less racemes of very small, white fls. 



N. Georgiana MX. Dry sand hills, S. Car. and Ga, (Mettauer). Bulb very 

 large (Elliott). Scape 2 to 3f high, with a few short Ivs. at its base, which dimin- 

 ish to scales upwards. Root Ivs. linear, 1 to 2f long, numerous, recurved, their 

 bases much dilated and imbricated. Panicle large. Rac. loose, If or more long. 

 Pedicels 5 to 6" long. Perianth spreading 3". 



7. SCIL'LA, L. SQUILL. Perianth 6-parted, petals and sepals simi- 

 lar, spreading (blue or purple) ; filaments 6, subulate or filiform, smooth, 

 hypogynous; style nliform-clavellate ; capsule free, 3-celled, 3-valved, 

 obtusely 3-angled ; cells with 1 or several roundish, black seeds. Bulb 

 coated, bearing several linear Ivs. and a scape with a raceme. 



1 S. esculenta Ker. QUAMASH. Lvs. linear, carinate, flaccid and recurved, 

 tapering to both ends, shorter than the scape ; bracts solitary, subulate, scarious, 

 longer than the pedicels, which are about the length of the flowers ; fil. filiform ; 

 stig. 3-toothed. Grassy, wet prairies, along the rivers, Wis. to Ohio, the uplands 

 of Ga., and westward. Bulb nutritious, about 1' diam., resembling a small 

 onion. Scape 1 to 2f high. Lvs. nearly as long, gra'ss-like. Rac. 2 to 3' long. 

 Pet. and sep. linear-lanceolate, 4 to 6" long. Anth. oblong, yellow. May. 

 (Phalangium, Nutt. Camassia, Lindl. C. Fraseri Torr) Improves by cultiva- 

 tion as to the size both of the bulbs and flowers. 



2 S praebracteata Haw. SQUILL. Lvs. broad-linear, longer than the 

 scape ; bracts as long as the pedicels ; flowers in a large conical panicle ; perianth 

 spreading, persistent. Bulb large, white. Fls. blue, f S. Eur. 



8. ORNITHOG'ALUM, L. STAR-OF-BETHLEHEM. (Gr. opviOo^, of a 

 bird, yaAa, milk ; why so-called is not obvious.) Perianth deeply 6- 

 parted, regular, persistent, segments many (3 to 7) -veined, spreading, 

 (white, green or yellow) ; filaments 6, dilated at base, scarcely perigy- 

 nous, ovary free ; style erect, tapering or subtrilobate ; capsule 3-lobed, 

 3-celled, 3-valved above ; seeds few or many in each cell, shining, 

 black. Bulbous plants, scarcely differing from Scilla except in the 

 color oi the fls. 



1 O. croceum Ell. YELLOW STAR-OF-BETHLEHEM. Lvs. narrowly linear, radi- 

 ical, longer than the slender scape which bears an oblong raceme of saffron-yellow 

 flowers at top ; bracts scarious at apex, obtuse, sheathing, many times shorter 

 than the slender pedicel ; segm. lance-ovate, obtuse, 3-veined, erect after flower- 

 ing, with a greenish-orange stripe on the back ; sty. and stam. subulate, shorter 

 than the segments. Mid. Ga., rare. (On Stone Mt, 16m. from Atlanta! Also 

 at Macon, Dr. Mettauer.) ScapTIO to 20' high, almost filiform. Rac. 10 to 15- 

 flowered. Pcd. 8 to 12" long, fls. half as long. Apr., May. (Phalangium MX., 

 Nutt.) 



2 O. umbellatum L. WHITE STAR-OF-BETHLEHEM. Los. linear, channeled, as 

 long as the scape, emarginate ; scape bearing a few white, green-striped fls. in a 

 loose corymb ; pedicels longer than the bracts ; filaments lanceolate-subulate. 

 Gardens, and naturalized in many localities. Scape near If high. Segm. of the 

 star-like perianth beautifully marked with a longitudinal stripe on the outside. 



