522 THE LILT FAMILY. 



into several suborders, of which the five enumerated below are represented 

 in Britain. 



Stem leafy. 



Stem branching. Fruit a berry. 

 Leaves short, subulate, and clustered. Flowers axillary . . 4. Aspaeagus. 

 Leaves ovate, stiif, and pricMy. Flowers ou the back of the 



leaves 5. Kusccs. 



Stem simple. 

 Fruit a berry. 



Leaves net-veined, in a single whorl of 4 or rarely 5 ... 1. Pabis. 

 Leaves parallel-veined. 



Flowers axillary 2. SoLOMOif-SEAL. 



Flowers in a terminal raceme 3. Convallabia. 



Fruit a capsule. 



Bootstock not bulbous. 



Flowers of a brownish white, paniculate 14. SiMBTHIS. 



Flowers yellow, in a raceme or spike. 



Style simple 15. Naethecivm. 



Styles 3. Stigmas capitate 16. Topiei.dia. 



Stigmas 3, sessile, feathery Teiglochin (p. 498). 



Eootstock bulbous. 



Flowers in a terminal umbel or head 13. Alliuu, 



Flowers solitary, or in a ternimal raceme. 

 Perianth-segments spreading. 

 Perianth white, with pink stripes. Flowers usually 



solitary 8. Llotdia. 



Perianth yellow. Flowers in a corymb-Uke raceme . 9. Gagea. 

 Perianth-segments converging into a bell-shape. 



Segments chequered, the inner ones with a cavity near 



the base 6. Feitillabt. 



Segments not chequered, without any cavities . . 7. TtiLip. 

 Stem leafless. Leaves all radical, sometimes sheathing the stem. 



Rootstock creeping. Fruit a berry 3. Convallabia. 



Eootstock bulbous. Fruit a capsule. 

 Flowers radical, with a very long tube commencing under- 

 ground 17. COLCHICUM. 



Flowers in a terminal umbel or head 13. Allium. 



Flowers in a terminal raceme. 



Perianth of one piece, with 6 minute teeth 12. Mitscabi. 



Perianth of 6 segments. 

 Flowers blue or pink. (Filaments flattened or not.) . . 11. Squill. 

 Flowers white or greenish. Filaments flattened . . .10. Oenithogalum. 

 Flowers yellow. Filaments not flattened 9. Gagea. 



The above Genera belong to the following Suborders : — 



1. TEILLIDE.B. Fruit a berry. Leaves with netted veins. Styles free. Genut:— 

 1. Paeis. 



3. C0NVALLAEIE.E. Fruit a berry. Leaves with parallel veins. Styles united. Testa 

 of the seed membranous. Genera : — 2. Solomon-seal ; 3. Convallabia. 



3. Aspaeage^. Fruit a berry. Leaves with parallel veins. Styles united. Testa of 

 the seed hard and black. Genera: — 4. Aspaeagus; 5. Euscus. 



4. LiLiE.«. Fruit a capsule. Styles united. Genera: — 6. Feitillabt; 7. TuLiP; 

 8. Llotdia; 9. Gagea; 10. Oeniihogalum; 11. Squill; 12. Muscaei; 13. Allium; 

 14. SiMETHIS ; 15. Naethecium. 



5. CoLCHiCE.ffl. Fruit a capsule. Styles distinct. Genera: — 16. Tomeliiia; 17. 

 Colchicum. 



Among the exotic Genera most famiUar by long or general cultivation 

 may be mentioned the Jli/acinth, Asphodel, Yucca, Lily, Calochortus, Ery- 

 thronium, HemerocalUs, Tuberose (Polyanthus), Agapanthus, FuncTcia, etc. 

 The Pineapple and some showy Pourretias and Tillandsias, occasionally 

 seen in our hothouses, belong to the nearly allied family of Bromeliacece. 



I. PARIS. PAEIS. 

 Eootstock creeping. Stem simple, with a single whorl of netted-veined 



