480 LILTACE^. (ULT FAMILY.) 



from a slender creeping rhizoma. Stem simple, sheathed at the base, leafy at 

 the summit. Leaves 4-6, alternate, oblong-cordate, 5-9-ribbed. Peduncles 

 few-flowered. Flowers small, greenish, on jointed nodding pedicels, which are 

 thickened upward. 



1. C. pauciflora, Torr. — Shady woods, Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. 

 April. — Stem 6' - 12' high. Leaves 2' - 4' long, thin, spreading. 



Order 151. LILIACEiE. (Lily Family.) 



Chiefly herbs, with sessile or sheathing parallel-nerved leaves, and per- 

 fect flowers. — Perianth corolla-like, 6- (rarely 4-) leaved or lobed, free 

 from the 2-3-celled ovary. Stamens 6 (rarely 4), hypogynous or perigy- 

 nous : anthers introrse (except in No. 9). Styles united. Stigmas 3, 

 distinct or united. Fruit a capsule or berry, few - many-seeded. Seeds 

 anatropous or amphitropous. Embryo small, in fleshy or hard albumen. 



Syuopsis. 



Tribe I. ASPARAGEJE. Fruit a berry. Divisions of t' e perianth more or less 

 united (except No. 4). — Leaves broad- 

 1 POLYGONATUM. Plowers axillary. Perianth tubular. Stems leafy. 



2. SMILACINA. Flowers in a terminal raceme. Perianth spreading. Stems leafy. 



3. CONVALLARIA. Flowers raeemed. Perianth 6-Iobed. Scape naked. 



4. CLINTONIA. Flowers umbelled. Perianth 6-leaved. Scape naked. 



Tribe II. ASPHODKIjE.^* Fruit a capsule. Divisions of the perianth united at 

 the base. — Stems scape-like. Leaves linear, rarely lanceolate. 

 * Root a coated bulb. 

 6 ALLIUM. Fiowers umbelled, from a scarious spathe. Seeds smooth and black. 

 6- NOLINA. Flowers raeemed, white. Stigmas 3. Seeds roughened, brown. 

 * tt Hoot a tuberous rhizoma. 



7. SCHCENOLIRION. Flowers raeemed, white. Seeds smooth and black. Leaves equitant. 



Tribe III. TUIilPACE^. Fruit a capsule. Divisions of the perianth distinct, de- 

 ciduous. — Stems leafy. 



# Bulbous-rooted herbs. Seeds pale. 



8. ERYTHRONIUM. Seeds ovoid, with a membranaceous appendage at the apex. Stem 



2 -leaved. 



9. LILIUM. Seed flat, winged, not appendaged. Stem many-leaved. 



# * Palm-like arborescent plants. Seeds black. 

 10. YUCCA. Stigmas 3, nearly sessile. Capsule dry or pulpy. Leaves spiny-pointed. 



1. POLYGONATUM, Desf. 



Perianth tabular, 6-cleft. Stamens 6, inserted on the middle of the tube, in- 

 cluded: anthers sagittate, fixed at the base. Ovary 3-ceIled, with 3-6 ovules 

 in each cell. Style slender : stigma obtuse. Berry few-seeded. — Rhizoma 

 creeping. Stem simple, leafy. Leaves oval or oblong. Peduncles axillary, 

 1 - few-flowered. Flowers drooping, on bractless pedicels. 



