190 127. Tamus. 18. TAMACE^. Plend.ph. 



Tamils commimis. Common Uack-lriomj, 



Leaves cordate, acute, undivided, not notched. 



Tamus racemosa, flore minore luteo pallescente^ Raii Syn. 262, Ij 

 Bryonia nigra, Gcr.cm.Sll. 

 Bryonia sylvestris nigra, Park. 178, 

 Tamus communis, Lin. S. P. 1458. 

 JVild vine. Our lady's seal. 



Woods and hedges ; perennial; June and July. 



Root black, very large; sie77i branchy, round, 12 feet 

 long, smooth ; leaves smooth, deep green, varying greatly 

 in shape from reniform to sagittate ; ^/?0ife7-5 greenish; berries 

 red. — Root acrid, stimulant, discutient used externally. 



Fam.XIV. 19. AMARYLLIDE.^. Brown. 



Perignnium adherent, 6-cut, regular, imbricate before open- 

 ing; 3 outer scpales longer than the inner; stamens 6, inserted 

 in the base of the sepales or in the tube ; filaments some- 

 times connate at the base; anthers adverse; ovary adherent^ 

 3-celled; cells many-seeded; style 1; stigma 3-lobed; capsule 

 3-celled; valves 3, partition-bearing; seeds many, affixed 

 to the inner angles of the cells ; perisperm fleshy ; corculum 

 inclosed ; spermodermis simple, membranaceous, neither 

 crustaceous nor black. 



A. Perigonium topshape ; limh 6-cut ; crown cupshape. 



Crown shorter than the limb ; 

 stamens unequal, 3 shorter Narcissus. 128. 



Crown as long as the limb; 

 stamens equal in length Ajax. 129. 



B. Perigonium very short tubed j limb 6-parted; a-ow?i 0. 



Lobes of the perigonium equal Galanthus- 131. 



Lobes of the perigonium unequal .... Leucojum. 130. 



I. 128. NARCISSUS. Narcissus. 



Perigonium funnelshape; limh spreading, longer than the 

 crown, 6-cut ; crown at the mouth of the tube cupshape ; 

 thick; tube cylindrical; stamens 6; 2> filaments shorter than 

 the rest, adhering to the tube ; anthers short, thick, boat- 

 shape, upright, nestling in the mouth of the tube ; stigma 

 small. — Herb bulbose; bulb tunicated; leaves co\\cq.\q, semi- 

 cylindrical, upright ; scape 2-edged, compressed ; spathe 1 

 or 2-flowered; tube of the flower white-, thick; croiun yel' 

 low, edge red. 



