340 



LILT FAMILY. 



§ 1. From a coated or sometimes scaly bulb. 



• Stem leajy, especially above, the leaves often lohorled or crowded: dimsions of ike 



perianth with a noney-beariny furrow or spot at or near the base : style long : 

 stigmas or lobes 3 : pod packed with 2 rows of depressed and flat sqf'Ir-coated 

 seeds in each cell. FUnoers large, often several. 



21. LILIUM. Flower bell-shaped or funnel-form with the separate or partly united 



divisions spreading or recurved above : the honey-bearlng-groove beginning 

 at their base. Anthers linear, at first erect, at length versatile. Pod oblong. 

 Bulb mostly scaly (Lessons, p. 46, fig. 73, 74). 



22. FRITILLARIA. Divisions of the bell-shaped flower distmct, not at all re- 



curving; the honey-bearing spot above their base. Bulb coated or scaly. 

 Flowers always nodding, oueu spotted. 



« « Stem 2-leaved or few-leaved at or towards the base, naked above and ordinarily 

 1-Jlowered at summit : the six pieces of the bell-shaped penanth separate : sta- 

 mens on the receptacle or nearly so ; anthers erect : seeds many, pale. 



23. TULIP A. Stem 1 - 2-leaved above the ground, bearing an erect large flower. 



Divisions of the perianth broad, not recurved nor spreading. Ovary and pod 

 triangular, columnar: stigmas 3, sessile. Seeds nearly as in Lily. 



24. EEYTHEONIUM. Scape 2-leaved from the ground, bearing a nodding flower. 



Divisions of the perianth lanceolate, recurved or spreading above. Ovary 

 and pod obovate: seeds globular. Style long, more or less club-shaped. 



* * * Scape naked, bearing several or many flowers : seeds very few, globular or 



angled, mostly with a crustaceuus or brittle black coat. 

 *- Perianth 6-parted or 6-sepalled, either wheel-shaped or less widely spreading. 



25. ORNITHOGALUM. Flowers in a corymb, braoted, white, wheel-shaped. 



Style 3-sided : stigma 3-angled. 



26. ALLIUM. Flowers in a simple umbel, from a 1 - 2-leaved or scarious spathe. 



Style persistent, slender : stigma entire. 



27. SCILLA. Flowers in a simple raceme, mostly blue. Style slender. 



■>- ■<- Perianth merely 6-toothed or 6-cleft, bearing the short included stamens on its 

 tube : pod tHangular. 



28. MUSCARI. Flowers in a raceme ; the globular or urn-shaped narrow-mouthed 



perianth nearly 6-toothed. 



29. HYACINTHUS. Flowers in a raceme ; the short-funnel-shaped or beU-shaped 



perianth 6-cleft, the lobes spreading. 



§ 2. Scape and leaves from a tuberous rootstock or fibrous-rooted crown : no bulb. 

 » Stamens and styles long and slender, declined : stigma nearly simple : fiowers large. 



80. AGAPANTHUS. Flowers In a 2-bracted umbel, blue. Perianth tubular at 



base, with 6 widely spreading divisions nearly regular. Pod triangular, 

 many seeded. Seeds flat, brownish, winged above. Leaves linear, flat. 



81. FUNKIA. Flowers in a raceme, blue or white. Perianth funnel-form, 6-cIeft, 



the lobes hardlv spreading, somewhat irregular. Pod oblong, prismatic, 

 many-seeded. Seeds flat, black, with a soft and thin coat, winged at the 

 apex. Leaves ovate or heart-shaped, netted-veiny between the ribs, and on 

 long petioles. 



82. HEMEROCALLIS. Flowers few on a somewhat branching scape, yellow, 



lasting but a day. Perianth funnel-form, with short narrow tube closely in- 

 vesting the ovary; the nearly similar divisions more or less spreading. Pod 

 thiclc, at first fleshy. Seeds few in each cell, roundish, with a hard and brit- 

 tle black coat. Leaves linear, grassy, keeled. 



* * Stamens and style straight, protruding from the tubular perianth. 

 33. TRITOMA. Flowers veiy many, nodding in a dense raceme or spike on a 

 bracted scape. Perianth tubular, regular, red or yellow, 6-toothed. Fila- 

 ments of two lengths. Pod many-seeded. Leaves narrow-linear, long and 

 grassy, keeled, crowded at the root 

 § 3. Stem a woody trunk, either short or tree-like, bearing a crowd of rigid and 

 pungent-pointed sword-shaped persistent leaves : no bulb. 

 82. YUCCA. Flowers in an ample terminal compound panicle, large, often polyga- 

 mous, white or whitish. Perianth of 6 separate oval or oblong acute divis- 

 ions, not deciduous, the 3 inner broader, longer than the stamens. Stigmas 

 3, sessile. Pod oblong, many-seeded ; the depressed seeds as in Lily. 



