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

 1 -flowered at summit ; the six pieces of the bell-shaped perianth separate ; sta- 

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



27. TULIPA. 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, colum- 

 nar ; stigmas 3, sessile. Seeds nearly as in Lily. 



28. CALOCHORTUS. Stem few-leaved, 1-few-flowered. Flowers large and handsome, of 



various colors, erect or pendulous, the 3 outer divisions small greenish, and sepal- 

 like, but the 3 inner ones very broad and bearded on the inside and usually blotched 

 at the base, all widely spreading. Capsule oblong, 3-angled. 



29. EETTHRONIUM. Scape 2-leaved from the ground, bearing a nodding flower. Divis- 



ions of the perianth lanceolate, recurved or spreading above. Ovary and pod obo- 

 vate ; seeds globular. Style long, more or less club-shaped. 



*--*-•*- Scape naked, bearing 1 to several or many flowers; seeds few, globular or 

 angled ; leaves linear or nearly so, 



++ Flowers in umbels (or in Nos. 30 and 31 sometimes solitary or twin). 



80. BRODLEA. Perianth of various colors, funnel-form or companulate, the lobes erect 



or somewhat spreading and equaling or exceeding the length of the tube. Stamens 

 6 or 3, with staminodia between, the filaments very short. Stigma 3-fid or 8-sulcate. 

 Leaves channeled or flat. 



81. MILLA. Perianth white, greenish outside, salver-like, the 6 lobes rotate-spreading ; 



tube long-cam pan ulate. Stamens 6, inserted on the tube, exserted, the anthers long 

 and connivent about the style, but the filaments very short. Stigma 3-parted. Leaves 

 very narrow, glaucous, hollow. 



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



colored ; cells of ovary 1-2-seeded, and pod lobed ; style persistent, slender ; stigma 

 entire. Plants onion-scented. 



33. NOTHOSCORDUM. Differs from Allium in the greenish or yellowish-white flowers, 



several-seeded cells, scarcely-lobed pod, and absence of onion odor. 



■*+ ++ Mowers in racemes or spikes (siibcorymbose in No. 84). 

 = Perianth parted almost or quite to the base. 



34. ORNITHOGALTJM. Flowers bracted, white, wheel-shaped. Style 3-sided; stigma 



3-angled. 



85. SCILLA. Flowers mostly blue, the divisions 1-nerved. Filaments often broadened at 



the base. Stigma capitate. 



86. CAMA88IA. Flowers blue in ours, the divisions 8- or more-nerved. Filaments fili- 



form. Stigma 3-fid. 



= = Perianth with a pronounced tube, the stamens upon the throat. 



87. CHIONODOXA. Flowers small, mostly blue, stalked in a short raceme, the tube 



shorter than the recurved-spreading acute segments. Filaments all broadly dilated. 

 Style short, the stigmas small or capitate. Cells 4-6-seeded. 



38. MXJSCARI. Flowers in a dense raceme; the globular or urn-shaped constricted- 



mouthed perianth nearly 6-toothed. 



39. HTACINTHUS. The short-funnel-shaped or bell-shaped perianth 6-cleft, throat open, 



the lobes spreading. 

 * * Plants with tuberous rootstocks or fibrous-rooted crown; stem always herbaceous; 

 radical leaves often forming large clumps by the spread of the rootstock. 

 Scape (in ours) leafless. 



+- Flowers in a 2-bracted umbel. 



40. AGAPANTHUS. Perianth blue, tubular at base, with 6 widely spreading divisions 



nearly regular. Pod triangular, many-seeded. Seeds flat'brownish, winged above. 

 Leaves linear, flat. 



