528 LILIACE^E. (LILY FAMILY.) 



3. T. pilbens, Ait. Stem (l°-2° high) and pedicels roughened with 

 minute glands; leaves longer and narrower. — Pine barrens, New Jersey to 

 Virginia and southward. July. 



12. UVULA HI A, L. Bellwort. 



Perianth nearly bell-shaped, lily-like ; the 6 distinct sepals spatulate-lanceolate, 

 with a honey-bearing groove or pit at the erect contracted base, much longer 

 than the stamens, which barely adhere to their base, deciduous. Anthers linear, 

 much longer than the filaments, adnate and extrorse, but the long and narrow 

 cells opening nearly along the margin. Style deeply 3-cleft; the divisions stig- 

 matic along the inner side. Pod triangular or 3-lobed, loculicidally 3-valved 

 from the top. Seeds few in each cell, obovoid, with a tumid or fungous rhaphe. 



— Stems rather low, from a rootstock, naked or scaly at the base, forking 

 above, bearing oblong sessile or clasping flat and membranaceous leaves, and 

 yellowish drooping flowers, in spring, solitary or rarely in pairs, on terminal 

 peduncles which become lateral by the growth of the branches. (Name "from 

 the flowers hanging like the uvula, or palate.") 



# Leaves clasping-per foliate : sepals pointed: pod truncate, 3-lobed: rootstock short. 



1. U. grandiflbra, Smith. Stems l°-2° high; flower Xtf long, pale 

 greenish-yellow, the sepals nearly smooth within; anthers blunt-pointed. — Rich 

 woods, Vermont to Wisconsin and southwestward. 



2. U. perfoliata, L. Smaller; sepals granular-roughened within; anthers 

 sharper tipped ; otherwise as No. 1. — Common eastward and southward. 



3. U. flava, Smith. Flower bright yellow, 1 long; sepals nearly smooth with- 

 in; anthers short-pointed. — New Jersey to Virginia: rare. 



* * Leaves sessile : pod triangular : stems low (6' -12') : rootstock creeping. 



4. U. sessilifdlia, L. Leaves lance-oblong, pale, glaucous beneath, sessile or 

 partly clasping by a narrow base; sepals blunt (9" long) ; anthers pointless; 

 the ovoid and sharply triangular pod stipitate. — Low woods : common. May. 



5. U. pub6rula, Michx. Slightly puberulent ; leaves bright green both sides 

 and shining, oval, with rough edges ; styles separate to near the base, not ex- 

 ceeding the short-pointed anthers; pod ovate, not stipitate; otherwise like the last. 



— Mountains, Virginia, and southward. 



13. PEOSAETES, Don. Prosartes. 



Perianth bell-shaped, the 6 sepals lanceolate or linear, deciduous. Filaments 

 thread-like, much longer than the linear-oblong blunt anthers, which are fixed 

 by a point above the base, and extrorse. Ovary with 2 ovules suspended from 

 the summit of each cell : style one : stigmas short, recurved-spreading, or some- 

 times united into one! Berry ovoid or oblong, pointed, 3 - 6-seeded, red. — 

 Downy low herbs, divergently branched above, with closely sessile ovate and 

 membranaceous leaves, and greenish-yellow drooping flowers, on slender termi- 

 nal peduncles, solitary or few in an umbel. (Name from 7rpo<raprua>, to hang 

 from, in allusion to the pendent ovules or flowers.) 



1. P. lanugindsa, Don. Leaves ovate-oblong, taper-pointed, rounded 

 or slightly heart-shaped at the base, closely sessile, downy underneath ; flowers 



