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APPENDIX III. 
Spiderwort Family. 
Herbs with narrow leaves; generally blue flowers that are 
ephemeral; sepals usually green; stamens 3 or 6; pistil 
usually of 8 carpels; juice often mucilaginous. 
Pickerel Weed Family. 
Aquatic herbs with irregular 6-merous flowers; stamens 6; 
pistil 1. 
Lily Family. 
Herbs, often from bulbs; the regular flowers generally solitary 
or few, with the perianth of 6 divisions; stamens 6; pistil 
1; the ovulary not attached to perianth, becoming a pod 
with few seeds. 
. Lily of the Valley Family. 
Similar to 5, but the flowers small, clustered, and stems from 
rhizomes. 
Smilax Family. 
Similar to 5, but usually climbing vines, and with often im- 
perfect greenish flowers in umbels; leaves broad and short 
petioled. 
Amaryllis Family. 
Similar to 5, but with the ovulary attached to perianth tube. 
Iris Family. 
Herbs, with colored perianth of two divisions, unlike in posi- 
tion and form of parts; stamens 3; pistil 1; with ovulary 
adherent to perianth tube and of 8 cells; leaves 2-ranked. 
Orchid Family. 
Herbs, with irregular flowers, a petal modified as a “lip,” 1 or 
2 stamens adhering to the single pistil, and ovulary attached 
to the perianth tube and containing many small seeds. 
DICOTYLEDONS. 
Plants with 2 cotyledons, distinction of pith, wood, and bark or 
epidermis; usually netted veined leaves and 4-5-merous flowers. 
A. ApETALovs (without petals). 
11. Birthwort Family. 
Low herbs or climbing vines, with peculiar 3-merous axillary 
flowers; stamens a multiple of 3; leaves broad, netted 
veined. 
