LILIACE^ 



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MONOCOTYLEDONS 



LILIACE^ (Lily Family) 



Perennial herbs with bulbs or rhizomes. Flowers usually 

 regular, hypogynous. Perianth 3 + 3, petaloid. Stamens 3 + 3. 

 Carpels three, syncarpous, superior ; ovary three-chambered ; 

 style usually single. Fruit, a capsule or berry. 



Type: GARDEN HYACINTH {Hyadnthus orientalis). 



Vegetative cliaracters. — Perennial herb with a coated bulb 

 (for description, see page 33, also fig. 53). Foliage-leaves 

 radical, long, narrow, with sheathing bases, parallel-veined. 



Fig. 213. — Vertical section of flower of garden Hyacinth. 

 Fig, 214. — Floral diagram of ditto. 



Inflorescence. — A bare inflorescence-axis terminates in a raceme 

 of pendulous flowers, which stand in the axils of small narrow 



