LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae. 



LILY FAMILY. Liliaceoe. 



A wonderfully beautiful family, large and widely dis- 

 tributed, mostly perennial herbs, growing from bulbs or 

 root-stocks, with perfect, regular, symmetrical flowers and 

 toothless leaves. The flower-cup almost always has six 

 divisions, the outer often called sepals and the inner petals. 

 The six stamens are opposite the divisions and sometimes 

 three of them are without anthers. The styles or stigmas 

 are three and the ovary is superior, developing into a 

 three-celled capsule or berry, containing few or many seeds. 



There are several kinds of Anthericum, rather small, lily- 

 like plants, with grasslike leaves, springing from the base 

 and surrounded by the fibrous remnants of older leaves. 

 The slender stems are leafless, or have one, very small, dry 

 leaf; the roots thick and fleshy-fibrous; the flowers yellow, 

 on pedicels jointed near the middle; the style long and 

 slender; the pod oblong, containing several flattened, 

 angular seeds in each cell. They are common in rocky soil, 

 at altitudes of six thousand to nine thousand feet, from 

 western Texas to Arizona. 



A beautiful little plant, with delicate 



Anthericum flowers, unusual and pretty in coloring. It 



Tdrreyi grows from eight to fifteen inches tall and 



yellow has a slender, pale-green stem, springing 



from a clump of graceful, pale bluish-green, 



grasslike leaves. The flowers are about 



three quarters of an inch long, pale orange or corn-color, 



with a narrow stripe on each division ; the pistil green, with 



an orange stigma; the anthers yellow. The flowers fade 



almost as soon as they bloom. This grows in open woods. 



