512 AMARYLLIDACEjE. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) 



3. C. parvifldrum, Salisb. (Smaller Yellow L.) Sepals ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate ; lip flatfish from above, bright yellow ( 1' or less long) ; sterile sta- 

 men triangular ; leaves oval, pointed. — Bogs and low woods ; rather common. 

 May, June. — Stem l°-2° high. Flower fragrant: sepals and petals more 

 brown-purple than in the next, into which, however, it seems to pass. 



4. C. pubescens, Willd. (Larger Yellow L.) Sepals elongated-lanceo- 

 late; lip flattened laterally, very convex and gibbous above (1^' -2' long, scent- 

 less, pale yellow. — Bogs and low woods : common northward and westward, 

 and southward in the Alleghanies. May, June. — Stem 2° high, pubescent, as 

 are the broadly oval acute leaves. 



-•- +- Sepals and petals plane, rounded, white, not longer than the lip. 



5. C. spectabile, Swartz. (Showy L.) Sepals round-ovate or orbicu- 

 lar, rather longer than the oblong petals ; lip much inflated, white, pink purple in 

 front (1^' long) ; sterile stamen heart-ovate. — Peat-bogs, Maine and W. New 

 England to Illinois, and southward along the Alleghanies. July. — The most 

 beautiful of the genus, downy, 2° high. Leaves ovate, pointed. 



* * Scape naked, 2-leaved at the base, 1 -flowered ; sepals and petals greenish, shorter 

 than the drooping lip, which has a closed fissure down its whole length in front. 



6. C. aeaule, Ait. (Stemless L.) Sepals oblong-lanceolate, pointed, 

 nearly as long as the linear petals; lip obovoid or oblong, rose-purple (rarely 

 white), nearly 2' long, veiny; sterile stamen rhomboid; leaves oblong. (C. 

 bundle, Salisb.) — Dry or moist woods, under evergreens : common, especially 

 northward. May, June. — Plant downy : the scape 8'- 12' high, with a green 

 bract at the top. 



Order 115. AUIARYLLIDACE^. (Amaryllis Family.) 



Chiefly bulbous and scape-bearing herbs, not scurfy or woolly, with linear 

 flat root-leaves, and regular (or nearly so) and perfect G-androus flowers, 

 the tube of the coralline G-parted perianth coherent with the ^-celled ovary ; the 

 lobes imbricated in the bud. — Anthers introrse. Style single. Pod 3-celled, 

 several - many-seeded. Seeds anatropous or nearly so, with a straight 

 embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen. — An order represented in our gar- 

 dens by the Narcissus (N. poeticus), Jonquil (N. Jonquilla), and Daf- 

 fodil (N. Pseudo-Narcissus), the Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) 

 and the Snowjiake (Leucojum verxum), &c, but with very few indige- 

 nous representatives in this country. Bulbs acrid. Differs from Liliacea? 

 chiefly in the inferior ovary. 



* Pod 3-valved, loeulicidal : anthers versatile : perianth funnel-shaped. 



1. Amaryllis. Flower naked in the throat ; the tube short or none. Bulbs coated. 



2. Pancratium. Flower with a slender tube and narrow recurved lobes; a cup-shaped 



crown connecting the stamens. Bulbs coated. 



3. Agave. Flower equally C-cleft, persistent - , no crown. Fleshy-leaved, not bulbous. 



* » Pod indehiscent ; anthers sagittate. 



4. Hypoxys. Perianth G-parted nearly down to the ovary. Bulb soHd. 



