LILV FA.MILV 



485 



■jrostrate, creeping ; flowers in a 

 spreading leaves, golden-yellow, per- 



SeciiOii IV, IMelanthac?;.^. — CohhiciiDi Tribe 

 Not bulbous ; leaves iiwsilv radieeil ; friiil mosllv capsular 



I-7. COLCHICU.M. — Stem a corm ; perianth \\ith a very long 

 tube. 



iS. Narthecium. — Stem 

 raceme ; perianth of 6 free, 

 sistent ; sl\'le 1 ; cap- 

 sule 3-chambered. 



19. TOFIELDIA. 



Stem a short rhi- 

 zome ; flowers in a 

 raceme, small, green- 

 ish-yellow ; perianth- 

 leaves 6, free, spread- 

 ing, persistent ; styles 

 3 ; fruit of 3 follicles. 



20. P.ARis. — Rhi- 

 zome stout ; ste))i 

 erect, simple, bear- 

 ing 4 whorled 

 leaves; flower soli- 

 tary, terminal, green, 

 generally 4.-merous ; 

 fruit berrj'-like. 



I. R u s c u s 

 (Butcher's Broom). 

 — Shrubs with stout, 

 creeping rhizomes ; 

 woody, branched 

 stems bearing flat- 

 tened, leaf-like, e^'er- 

 green branches or 

 "cladodes" in the 

 axils of minute, 



scale-like, deciduous leaves ; flowers direcious, ; perianth deeply 

 6-cleft, green, persistent ; filaments united intO' a tube ; fruit heny- 

 like, T-chambered, i — 2-seeded. (Xamc said to be from hrusctis, 

 a word of Keltic origin.) 



I. R. actdedtus (Butcher's Broom, KneeiHollv). — The only 

 British species, and only British shrubby ;Nlonocotyledon, 3 — ^ 

 feet high, with erect, dark green stems ; ovate, dark green, flat- 



Ri'-SCUS ACTr-FNTT-S {Butrh'-r's /^r 



A!lf-i'-/!i^In). 



