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LILY FAMILY. 351 
Leaves 2~3 inches long, and often as wide as long ; wine one-third to three-fourths of an 
ine get SuTte, margined at base, giving ou : simple, filiform, but strong tendril on 
each side, at the summit of the mar gin. lowers greenish-yellow oe small globose 
axiiery umbels. Berries dark blue, or pinishe black with a glaucous bloom, when 
Matur 
ee Moist thickets and at ronan: BEI bushes and trees: Canada to Carolina. FI. 
tober. 
oe: This rugged shrubby vine is often abundant in moist low 
siti! ining ng almost impenetrable pres ; and is a great Dries 
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iy 
form with the branches 4-angled ; a sma soaller plant and seldom miming 
is yet mer oitesl to subdue. Ss is quite Seqneit in sterile old fields, 
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ese,— 
e have an unarmed herbaceous species (§, herba L.)— frequen 
afbniy fence-rows and borders of acy oh is CB Ba ac 
for the carrion-like fetor of its flowe 
Orper LXXVII. LILIA’CEZ. (Lmy Famty.) 
Herbs with parallel-nerved, sessile or sheathing leaves and regular ne flowers. Divi 
sions of the perianth petal- ‘like, cherrgag 6. Stamens 6; anthers intro Styles un united ; 
3, aaoninies mat ted. Fre oe “valved loculicidal capsule, or semitones a berry ; 
seeds few or many ; mbryo in fle albumen. 
A very large order, the different genera of w —_ sy oe nt <eueet get: ty of appearance, 
es 
many a 
among the most bril fant tien oa of the garden, fig the Hyacinth, Aly; own Imperial, 
—_ &e. aaa edicines Squill and Aloes are produ ced by plants of this order, as is the - 
New ew Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax, Forst.), so valuable for the strength of its bres. 
3 bulbs. a 
m 
ing. Leaves fine and omega : 1. AsPaRaGus, 
"lack a 3-celled pod, splitting into 3 valves when ripe. Seeds 
ts fascicled, not bulbou! 
Perianth united ed into at tube below — form. 2, HEMEROCALUS, 
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Flowers corymber, ite ; peerage é 3. ORINTHOGALUM, 
Flowers r ed, blue or purple ; style thread-like, 4, 
Flowers in an umbel, from a scaly bract or inyolucre. 5. ALLIUM. 
Fruit a 8-celled many-seeded pod. Seeds pale. Perianth of 6 
erty epee divisions. me 
Anthers y their middle, sw free ; stems from a ie ¥D 
“bulb, leafy to the top. tig ROM: Ges sjliann £a 
1. ASPAR’AGUS, L. Asparaeus. 
[The ancient Greek name.] 
Perianth of 6 nearly equal linear-oblong wanes lightly connected at 
oe Stamens 6,—the lo wer half of the filaments 
gg ie the base of the als; anthers peltate. Style shorts , 
