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Flowers in a dense raceme; filaments glabrous; styles 3, distinct. 



16. Xebophylldm. 

 Flowers in loose racemes; filaments densely woolly: style one, nnrlivided. 



16. Nartheciuh. 

 Acaolescent; leaves 2; stamen!) 3, opposite tbe sepiils. . . 17. Bcoliopus. 

 Stem simple, bearing at summit a whorl of 3 broad netted veined leaves and 

 a single large flower; stamens 6 .18. Teillidm. 



B. Fruit a berry; plants with rootstocks. 

 Leaves broad. 

 Stem very short, the leaves arising from near the surface of the ground; 



flowers red. In umbels, raised on a peduncle. . . . 19. Cltntonia. . 

 Stem simple, leaf^; flowers very small, w bite. 

 Raceme short, simple, terminal; periantb-segments and stamens 4, leaves 



1 to 3, cordate, petioltd 20. Maianthemd.m. 



Eaceme simple or compound, terminal, composed of many small flowers; 



leaves severiil to many, sessile 21. Smilacina. 



Stems braticbiug; flowers axillary at the ends of tbe leafy branches. 



22. DiSPOBDM. 



Leaves reduced to scales; brancblets filiform, clustered in thf axils; bushy- 

 branching plant. ... . ... 23. ASPABAGCS. 



1.' FRITILLARIA L. 



Stems erect, simple, from a bulb of thick fleshy scales; radical 

 leaves large, ovate or elliptic; cauline sessile, alternate or whorled. 

 Flowers solitary or in racemes, dull purple, brownish, pink or 

 scarlet. Perianth campanulate to funnelform, deciduous, of 6 dis- 

 tinct segments, each segment with a shallow nectar-bearing area or 

 pit near the base. Stamens 6, inserted on the base of the segments, 

 included; fllnments slender; anthers extrorse, more or less versatile. 

 Ovary sessile or nearly so. Capsule membranaceous, 6-angled or 

 winged, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds numerous, in 2 rows in each cell. 

 (From tbe Latin fritillus, a dice-box, the application uncertain.) 



Styles united, stigmn shortly 3-lo bed; perianth pink, of a uniform color, i. e.,not 



spotted; glands obscure I. F. plurijlom. 



Styles 3-parted « tove; stigmas linear; glands mostly obvious. 

 Leaves in 2 to 3 whorls on the upper part of the stem or the uppermost alter 

 nate; capsule wingud. 



Perianth scarlet 2. P. coccinea. 



Perianth dark-purple, mottled or checkered wiih greenish-yellow. 

 Segments % t'> 1% in. long. atlea.st the inner with crisped or erosulate 



mni^ins; raceme commonly 4 to many-flowered. . . .3.f. muUca. 

 Segments 1 to 1 54 in. long, the margin entire; racemes 1 to 4-flowered. 



4. F. laticeoUiia. 

 Leaves mostly b»sal, not in riisUnct whorls; capsule obtusely angled. 

 Kaceme many-flowered; perianth yellowish-green, not spotted, 1 to 1^5°- 



long . .6. F. agrestix. 



Kaceme 1 to 3-flowered. .,..,..» 



Perianth brownish or black-purple or greenish with interrupted purple 



lines, M to 1 in. long .6. F.biflora. 



Perianth white or nearly so, 5i to % in. long . . .7. F. lUiacea. 



1. F. pluriflora Torr. Pink FRiTitLAKiA. Stems 6 to 10 in. 

 high, from a somewhat yellowish bulb of few (6 to 8) scales; leaves 

 few oblong-lanceolate, 4 in. long, mostly basal; perianth uniform 

 pink-purple, the sesjnients obovate-oblong, acutish, 1 in. long; glands 

 obscure; stamens f the length of the petals, the filaments slightly 

 dilated 'at base; capsule as broad as long, truncate at apex, narrowed 

 toward the base, strongly 3-lobed, each lobe with 2 longitudinal 

 dorsal ridges or wings with intervening depression. 



